Pin Down

Definition: Pin Down

Pin Down

Verb

1. Define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game".

2. Attach with or as if with a pin.

3. Define clearly; "Can you pin down the difficulties".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Pin Down

Compulsion

Extort, wring from; squeeze, put on the squeeze; put on the screws, turn on the screw; drag into; bind, bind over; pin down, tie down; require, tax, put in force; commandeer; restrain.

Restraint

Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate).

Crosswords: Pin Down

Y'know, back in my days as a rogue demon hunter, I once used that very spear to pin down what I thought was a small Rodentius demon. (Angel; writing credit: Let�cia Dornelles)

Pin down that lesion. (The Exorcist; writing credit: William Peter Blatty)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Health

The next step was to pin down the connection between the infected deer mice and households where people who had gotten the disease lived. (references)

Other people have had frequent contact with rodents and their droppings before becoming ill. This apparent inconsistency makes it very difficult to pin down the precise time when the virus was transmitted. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Private sector arrears, though hard to pin down, are likely in the neighborhood of U.S. $500 million, for a total arrearage of nearly U.S. $1.2 billion. (references)

Political Economy

Cyprus

It is difficult to pin down a number, but Cyprus' chief EU accession negotiator, former President Vassiliou, has estimated the cost of Cyprus' drive for EU harmonization at 946.0 million Euros (about USD 757.0 million). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

ngul (bite into, dig, drive, drive in, fix, jab, nail, plant, plunge, post, press in, put, sink, spit, stick, thrust, wrap up), fiksoj (affix, arrange, assign, clinch, fasten, fix, freeze, hang, impress, Mount, nail, pose, print, secure, set, settle, stabilize), detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, dragoon, enforce, entail, force, have, haze, impel, keep, make, move, obligate, oblige, outface, press, push, rack, screw, strong arm, tie). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حال دون التهرب, ‏ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fastening, fix, lash, last, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

събирам (accumulate, add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), формулирам (conceive, draw, formulate), притискам (constrict, embosom, jam, pin, pinch, press, press down, screw, snuggle, squeeze, strain, strangulate, throng, weight down). (various references)

Czech

připevnit (affix, attach, belay, brace, fasten, fix, Mount, pin, strap, tag, tail). (various references)

Danish

udvendigt gevind nederst på rør. (various references)

Dutch

buitendraad onder. (various references)

Finnish

naulata kiinni, naulata (nail). (various references)

French

punaiser, filetage mâle en bas, coincer. (various references)

German

niederhalten (hold down, keep down, oppress), Festnageln (nail, nail down, spike, tack down, tie down, to spike), Festlegen (appoint, arrange, determine, determines, establish, fix, fixed, immobilize, lay down, schedule, set, settle, state, stipulate, tie, to state), festheften (tack down), einklemmen (box in, catch, clamp, get caught, jam, pen in, sandwich), anheften (attach, clinch, fasten, fasten on, fix on, peg, pin, pin up, tack, tack on, tacking, tape on, to clinch, to pin). (various references)

Greek 

καρφιτσώνω (pin), στρυμώχνω. (various references)

Hebrew 

למ� וע �"תחמקות. (various references)

Hungarian

odaszegez (to pin, to spike), lezár (bar, block, close down, seal up, shut down, terminate, to clinch, to close, to conclude, to make up, to pin down, to quarantine, to seal, to secure, to shut down, to shut off, to terminate), lefog (hold down, overpower, to apprehend, to arrest, to clinch, to hold down, to keep down, to nab), elkap (catch, catch up, snap, to catch up, to collar, to cop, to gaff, to grab at, to grab for, to grab hold of, to nab, to nail, to snap, to snatch). (various references)

Italian

fissare (affix, appoint, arrange, assess, assign, attach, be fixed, bind, block, book, designate, destine, determine, establish, eye, fasten, fix, gaze, implant, make, make fast, make firm, name, peer, pin, plant, reserve, rivet, root, schedule, secure, set, settle, stare, stipulate), costringere (cause, coerce, compel, constrain, enforce, force, impose, make, press gang, push, will), capire (apprehend, bottom, catch, comprehend, get, make out, penetrate, perceive, push, read, realise, realize, see, see through, take in, to understand, twig, understand). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

組敷く (to hold down, to pin down, to press down), 組み敷く (to hold down, to pin down, to press down), 押さえ込む (to immobilize, to pin down), 押さえ付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 押えつける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 押え付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 抑え付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 刺す (to bite, to catch, to pierce, to pin down, to pole, to prick, to putout, to stab, to stick, to sting, to stitch, to thrust). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おさえつける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), おさえ�"む (to crowd into, to immobilize, to pin down, to push into), くみしく (to hold down, to pin down, to press down), さす (reef, sandbank, sandbar, to apply moxa cautery, to bite, to catch, to graft, to insert, to light, to pierce, to pin down, to play, to point, to pole, to pour, to prick, to put in, to put up umbrella, to putout, to raise umbrella, to raisehands, to serve, to shine, to stab, to stick, to sting, to stitch, to strike, to thrust, to wear in belt). (various references)

Pig Latin

inpay ownday

Portuguese

prender com corrente (chain), medir (chain, dial, gage, gauge, measure, mete, scale, times), fechar (bar, berate, box, chain, close, coffin, drub, fasten, immure, impound, lock, mure, occlude, pen, rail, seal, shut, shut in, snap, stop up, stopple, to close, turn off). (various references)

Romanian

prinde (acquire, apprehend, attach, bind, book, captivate, capture, catch, catch hold of, clasp, clot, comprehend, cop, Curdle, engage, ferret, find out, fish, fix, get hold of, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, grow, hang, have, hit, hitch, intercept, nail, nip, overhear, reach, recruit, regain, round up, seize, set, shut, stitch, strike, succeed, tack, take, tie, work), gãsi (consider, discover, find, get, hit, meet, procure, strike, think), fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, appoint, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, assign, attach, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, determine, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, hitch, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, place, put on, recognize, regulate, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune). (various references)

Russian 

сковывать (chain, enfetter, interchain, prison), поймать (capture, catch, catch hold of, caught 2, hunt down, land, lime, nab, nail, snaffle bit), подхватить. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prikovati (transfix), ustanoviti (affiliate, establish, found, institute, restate), obavezati (bind, charge, obligate, oblige). (various references)

Spanish

precisar (bracket, nail), sujetar a la fuerza, obligar a concretar, inmovilizar (immobilize, lock up, tie up), hacer que alguien concrete. (various references)

Swedish

utvändig gänga nedtill vid basen, binda sig för. (various references)

Turkish

zorunlu kılmak, sıkıştırmak (astringe, be urgent with smb., bear against, besiege, bombard, bottle up, clamp, clamp down, clinch, come down on, compact, compress, constrict, crowd, crush, drive smb. to the wall, dun, force, grind, grip, heckle, hurry, hustle, impact, impress, incarcerate, jam, jam in, lean on, lean upon, oppress, pin, pinch, ply, ply with, press, press for, press smb. close, push, push smb. to the wall, rush, shut in, slip into, squeeze, straiten, stress, tighten, tuck, wedge, weigh), mecbur etmek (coerce, compel, constrain, cow smb. into, force, obligate, oblige, pin, railroad, railroad into doing, reduce, subject). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: indow, pinon, poind.

-3 letters: down, nodi, pion, pond, wind, wino.

-4 letters: din, dip, don, dow, inn, ion, nip, nod, now, own, pin, pod, poi, pow, win, won, wop.

-5 letters: do, id, in, no, od, on, op, ow, pi, wo.

+3 letters: windowpane.

+4 letters: downplaying, windowpanes.