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Definition of Pinning
1. Noun. A mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin.
Definition of Pinning
1. Verb. (present participle of pin) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pinning
1. pin [v] - See also: pin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinning
Literary usage of Pinning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1906)
"A movement has now been set on foot for its preservation by draining the site,
under-pinning the walls, and replacing the long-vanished roof, ..."
2. ... Directions for Collecting and Preserving Specimens of Dragonflies for by Edward Bruce Williamson (1916)
"pinning specimens.—As has been said, this subject will not be discussed in ...
The writer has long since ceased to relax specimens for pinning except in ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1822)
"... asked whether any other form of swearing was more binding- was directed to
close all apertures, which he did, by pinning on pieces of canvass ; it was ..."
4. Dynamics & Stochastics: Festschrift in Honour of M.S. Keane by M. S. Keane, Dee Denteneer, F. den Hollander, Evgeny Verbitskiy (2006)
"Differing from standard methods and techniques, we transform the problem to a
particular dependent percolative system and relate the pinning transition to a ..."
5. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1906)
"... two corresponding strips across the middle, one on either side of the midrib,
and, after »pinning their edges closely together, were living between them ..."
6. Entomology for Beginners for the Use of Young Folks, Fruit-growers, Farmers by Alpheus Spring Packard (1888)
"Mounting the Appendages of Insects for pinning in the Cabinet.— A writer in the
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society (vi. ..."
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