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unpins

unpins is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unpin.

Meaning of unpin

Verb

unpin (third-person singular simple present unpins, present participle unpinning, simple past and past participle unpinned)

  1. (transitive) To unfasten by removing a pin.
    • Lady Bellaston answered with a smile, “Then you have seen this terrible man, madam; pray, is he so very fine a figure as he is represented? for Etoff entertained me last night almost two hours with him. The wench I believe is in love with him by reputation.” Here the reader will be apt to wonder...1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
  2. (transitive) To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned.
    • to unpin a program from the Taskbar
  3. (transitive) To undo the pinning or fixing of (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it can be modified again.
    • […] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.2012, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 5.0, page 244
  4. (transitive) To get (a piece) out of a pin.

Questions about unpins

What is unpins the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unpins is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unpin.

Words near unpins in the dictionary

  1. unpinned
  2. unpinning
  3. unpinnings
  4. unpinpointable
  5. unpinpointed
  6. unpins
  7. unpious
  8. unpiously
  9. unpiped
  10. unpipelined
  11. unpipped

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