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I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.
Marina and the Diamonds

Meaning of "pin down" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PIN DOWN

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PIN DOWN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pin down is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES PIN DOWN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pin down in the English dictionary

The first definition of pin down in the dictionary is to force to make a decision or carry out a promise. Other definition of pin down is to define clearly. Pin down is also to confine to a place.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PIN DOWN

pin
pin bone
pin clover
pin curl
pin grass
pin joint
pin money
pin oak
PIN pad
pin rail
pin table
pin tuck
pin wrench
pin-eyed
pin-up
pina colada
pinacoid
pinacoidal
pinacotheca
pinafore

WORDS THAT END LIKE PIN DOWN

back down
break down
bring the house down
cut down
down
get down
go down
hands down
hold down
lay down
put down
ride down
sit down
step down
take down
turn down
up and down
upside down
when the chips are down
wind down
write down

Synonyms and antonyms of pin down in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «pin down» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PIN DOWN

Find out the translation of pin down to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pin down from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pin down» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

牵制
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

precisar
570 millions of speakers

English

pin down
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

नीचे पिन
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أحدد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

придавить
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fixar para baixo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পিন নিচে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coincer
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pin ke bawah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

festzunageln
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

突き止める
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

아래로 핀
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pin mudhun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ghim xuống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கீழே முள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खाली पिन करा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sıkıştırmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fissare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zmusić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

придавити
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fixeze
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

καθηλώσουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vaspen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

sätta fingret på
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pin ned
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PIN DOWN»

The term «pin down» is regularly used and occupies the 69.948 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PIN DOWN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pin down

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10 QUOTES WITH «PIN DOWN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pin down.
1
Candice Bergen
I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
2
Gary Frank
I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
3
Franklin Graham
It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and they're made of Latinos, blacks, whites.
4
Rolf-Dieter Heuer
We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle's properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.
5
Sasha Jackson
Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent - which is obviously in 'Blue Crush 2.'
6
Mercedes Lackey
If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for some of those people to at least follow a code of ethics? Not 'honor' but something you can pin down and be sure of, something with the same rules for everybody.
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Marina and the Diamonds
I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.
8
Hattie Morahan
Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.
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Sid Waddell
It's like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.
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Robert Wyatt
I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PIN DOWN»

Discover the use of pin down in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pin down and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Life Style: How to Pin Down the Pin-up Within You
This wonderfully illustrated book not only tells the story of her life so far, but reveals the style and fashion sense that make her one of the most photographed women in the world.
Kelly Brook, 2007
2
Pin Down: One Girl'S Harrowing And Disturbing Tale Of ...
Thrust into care at six months of age because of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, Teresa Cooper's life began in a less than perfect way.
Teresa Cooper, 2009
3
Managing Behavioural Treatment: Policy and Practice with ...
The term pin-down was first used to describe a method of controlling the behaviour of disruptive children and adolescents, within a certain children's home, in an attempt to avoid the use of secure accommodation. Essentially, the original ...
Clive R. Hollin, Kevin J. Epps, David J. Kendrick, 1995
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Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms
You could have heard a pin drop for a full minute after every song and then the audience would clap wildly. pin down sb, also pin sb down 1 to get specific information from someone ♢ It is not easy to pin down a politician who won't even tell ...
Paul Heacock, 2003
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Maths AQA
Chris flips a drawing pin 100 times. It lands 'pin up' 85 times. (a) What is the probability of the drawing pin landing 'pin down'? [2] (b) Chris drops the pin three times in succession. Calculate the probability that: (i) all three land 'pin down' [2] ( ii) ...
Bob Hartman, 2006
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Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science
We'll refer to the process of translating a formula to an expression as "pinning down" the formula; the procedure pin-down carries out this process. It's called " pinning down" because we start with a general formula and end up with a specific ...
Brian Harvey, Matthew Wright, 1999
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Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs
This yields a distribution of the posterior for 9 given pin up, and the best single estimate is the mean value of this distribution: 1 2 9(29) d9= -. o 3 Next, assume that we get a toss with pin down. Then we have for the new posterior distribution .
FINN VERNER JENSEN, Thomas Dyhre Nielsen, 2007
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Winning Basketball Fundamentals
A pin-down screen can be a moving screen like the one that Dallas runs for Dirk Nowitzki. Nowitzki usually sets the first screen to establish a low-post position, and then he works off the second screen to get open for his one-on-one fall-back  ...
Lee H. Rose, 2012
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Media Selling: Television, Print, Internet, Radio
The Pin-Down Close. This closing technique should be used judiciously. After prospects have expressed an objection, pin them down by asking if you can have the go-ahead if you can overcome their objection. For example, if a prospect says , ...
Charles Warner, 2009
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Field Guide to the Neurologic Examination
For example, if you think there is a possible thoracic cord localization, march the pin down one side of the chest and abdomen by testing single pinpricks scattered inches apart while asking the patient if the point- edness feels about the same ...
Steven L. Lewis, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PIN DOWN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pin down is used in the context of the following news items.
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Google Maps Lets You Pin Down Your Favorite Places With Custom …
You can go ahead and pin down your friend's house and label it however you like or give your favorite eatery a local nickname. «Tech News Today, Jul 15»
2
Review: In 'Butcher Holler Here We Come,' Tensions Down in the Hole
By the end you understand in general terms what went on in the mine, but you wish you had the text to read, to help you pin down the details. «New York Times, Jul 15»
3
Are E-Cigarettes' Popularity Causing More Teens to Smoke?
The answer isn't very easy to pin down, but a recent study offers some evidence to say such a fear is possible – while still falling well short of ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
4
Lotus Evora 400 :Driven
With its £72K pricetag and 406hp power output this new Evora 400 appears even more difficult to pin down. It's £10K more than the most ... «Pistonheads.com, Jul 15»
5
Lovecraft Was Wrong Knowledge Is Power in 'Bloodborne'
It's hard to pin down any concrete motivations for the Moon Presence, but one thing is clear. It wants to kill Mergo. When we kill the Wet Nurse, ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
6
Real U.S. allies in Iraq difficult to identify, experts say
Technically, the Iraqi army is larger, but pervasive corruption makes its precise size difficult to pin down. Last year, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider ... «Military Times, Jul 15»
7
The Caribbean Voice welcomes Suicide Helplines
They must also display basic knowledge of warning signs in order to quickly and easily pin down the factors that may have led to a call. «Stabroek News, Jul 15»
8
2005 slaying of woman found with baby still unsolved
... led to frustrations for investigators, as the amount of visitors she received made it difficult for neighbors to pin down who was last to leave. «The Augusta Chronicle, Jul 15»
9
New exoplanet could be Earth 2.0
Their measurements helped pin down the planet's size to between 1.4 and 1.8 times the size of Earth — a size that makes theorising about the ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
10
The most Herculean players in this season of Star Sports Pro Kabaddi
One of his favorite moves is the sphere like tackle where he bulldozes his way to pin down the raider in an instant. The 5 feet 3 inches defender ... «Sportskeeda, Jul 15»

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