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• Award pin
  Award pin
  
  An award pin is a small object, usually made from metal or plastic, with a pin on the back, presented as an award of achievement or a mark of appreciation....
  , a small piece of metal or plastic with a pin attached given as an award for some achievement
• An electric interconnection, in electrical engineering. For example a metal wire coming out of an integrated circuit or transistor. Often also referred to as a lead
  Lead (electronics)
  
  In electronics, a lead has two meanings:*An electrical connection consisting of a length of wire or soldering pad that comes from a device. Leads are used for physical support, to transfer power, to probe circuit , and to transmit information....
  . Pins are enumerated to avoid ambiguity in technical drawings and literature.
• Bridge pin
  Bridge pin
  
  Bridge pins are used on some musical instruments to locate the string precisely in the horizontal plane, and in the case of harpsichords to affect the sustain of the strings....
  , a vertical wire on the bridge of keyboard instruments such as the piano and harpsichord that is used to control the string resonances
• Pin, half a firkin
  Firkin
  
  A Firkin is an old English unit of volume. The name is derived from the Middle Dutch word vierdekijn, which means fourth, i.e. a fourth of a full-size barrel....
  , or 4.5 Imperial gallons.
• Pin, Haute-Saône
  Pin, Haute-Saône
  
  Pin is a village and Communes of France in the Haute-Sa?ne Departments of France, in the France Regions of France of Franche-Comt?....
  , a commune of the Haute-Saône département, in France
• Pin Oak Court in Vermont South, Victoria
  Vermont South, Victoria
  
  Vermont South is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria , Australia, 20 km east from Melbourne's Melbourne city centre. Its Local Government Areas of Victoria is the City of Whitehorse....
  . Film location of Ramsay Street in the Australian soap opera Neighbours
  Neighbours
  
  Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
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• Pin...
  Pin...
  
  Pin, or Pin, A Plastic Nightmare is a Canada cult film starring David Hewlett, Cynthia Preston and Terry O'Quinn and is directed by Sandor Stern....
  , a 1988 cult horror movie
• Pin (song)
  Pin (song)
  
  "Pin" is a single by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their debut album, Fever to Tell . It was released on July 22, 2003, and received critical acclaim but did not receive much mainstream attention, especially when compared with the band's next single "Maps "....
  , a song by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs from their debut album, Fever to Tell (2003)
• Pin, nickname of actress, model, and singer Kejmanee Pichaironnarongsongkram.
• Graham 'Pin' Pinney, guitarist from the band SikTh
  SikTh
  
  SikTh was a progressive metal band from Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom....
  
• Gabriele Pin
  Gabriele Pin
  
  Gabriele Pin , is an Italy Association football coach. He is currently working as Cesare Prandelli's assistant at ACF Fiorentina.Pin became a coach after a long professional career as a midfielder....
  , Italian footballer
• Personal identification number
  Personal identification number
  
  A personal identification number is a secret numeric password shared between a user and a system that can be used to authenticate the user to the system....
  , a sequence of numbers used for security.
• PINS, or Person In Need of Supervision
  Person In Need of Supervision
  
  Person in need of supervision, or PINS is a term frequently used by social services agencies in the United States to describe a juvenile who is not currently in the household of a parent or legal guardian, or is currently not under their control as evidenced by the person's status offense, who is not an emancipated minor....
  , a truant in Family Court.

• Pin (chess)
  Pin (chess)
  
  In chess, a pin is a situation brought on by an attacking piece in which a defending piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable defending piece on its other side to capture by the attacking piece....
  , a scenario where if a lesser piece is under attack and moves away, it would reveal a more valuable piece
• Pin (amateur wrestling)
  Pin (amateur wrestling)
  
  A pin, a fall, or a pinfall is a victory condition in various forms of sport wrestling that is met by holding an opponent's shoulders or scapula on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time....
  , the primary way of winning an amateur wrestling match
• Pin (professional wrestling), a way of winning a professional wrestling match
• Pin (bridge)
  Pin (bridge)
  
  In contract bridge, whist and similar games, the term pin refers to the lead of a higher card from one hand to capture a singleton of lower rank in an opponent's hand....
  , a manoeuver to drop an opponent's lower-ranking card by leading a high one.
• Grappling hold#Pinning hold
  Grappling hold
  
  A grappling hold is a grappling, wrestling, judo or other martial arts term for a specific grip that is applied to an opponent. Holds are principally used to control the opponent, and to advance in points or grappling position....
  , a hold used to control an opponent in grappling
• Bowling pin
  Bowling pin
  
  Bowling pins are the target of the bowling ball in various bowling games including Ten-pin bowling, Five-pin bowling, Duckpin bowling, and Candlepin bowling....
  s, which must be knocked down by the bowling ball

See also

• PIN
  Pin
  
  A pin is a device used for fastening objects or material together.Pin may also refer to:* Award pin, a small piece of metal or plastic with a pin attached given as an award for some achievement...
  
• Pinning
  Pinning
  
  Pinning can refer to a number of things*Pinning, the effect of certain weapons that cause their targets to be pinned down.*Pinning ceremony, a symbolic welcoming of newly-graduated nurses into the nursing profession...