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pinned

/pɪnd/

pinned is the simple past and past participle of pin.

Meaning of pin

Verb

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

  1. (often) To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
  2. (usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
  3. To pin down (someone).
    • He pinned his opponent on the mat.
  4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  5. (transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
    • to pin a folder to the taskbar
    Antonyms:
    unpin
  6. (transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
    • When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
    Antonyms:
    unpin

See all 34 meanings of pin

Adjective

pinned (not comparable)

  1. (in-compounds) Having (a specified kind or number of) pins.
    • a three-pinned arch

Origin of pinned

From pin + -ed.

Words formed from pinned

Phrases with pinned

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Words that rhyme with pinned

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Questions about pinned

What does pinned mean?
Pinned means having (a specified kind or number of) pins.
What is pinned the simple past and past participle of?
Pinned is the simple past and past participle of pin.
What part of speech is pinned?
Pinned is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pinned?
Pinned is pronounced /pɪnd/.

Words near pinned in the dictionary

  1. pinnatipartite
  2. pinnatisect
  3. pinnatisected
  4. pinnatisectly
  5. Pinneberg
  6. pinned
  7. pinned back
  8. pinned back one's ears
  9. pinned down
  10. pinned on
  11. pinned one's ears back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinned (page history and authors); pin (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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