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• pin-a-sight —    A *display custom of little girls in an Oxfordshire village in the 1880s. In Lark Rise To Candleford (1945, chapter 9), Flora Thompson describes making a kind of floral sandwich by stripping as many brightly coloured petals as possible from… …   A Dictionary of English folklore

• Pin Oak Middle School — is a Title I secondary school that is located in Bellaire, Texas, United States.Pin Oak, which serves grades 6 through 8, is a part of the Houston Independent School District. Pin Oak Middle School, which was built in 2002 to relieve nearby… …   Wikipedia

• Pin risk (options) — Pin risk occurs when the underlier of an option contract settles close to the option s strike value at expiration. In this situation, the underlier is said to have pinned . The risk to the writer (seller) of the option is that they cannot predict …   Wikipedia

• pin·stripe — /ˈpınˌstraıp/ noun, pl stripes 1 [count] : a thin vertical stripe on cloth a dark suit with white pinstripes often used before another noun a pinstripe pattern/shirt/suit 2 pinstripes [plural] : a suit with pinstripes a man dressed in pinstripes …   Useful english dictionary

• pin|feath|er — «PIHN feh TH uhr», noun. an undeveloped feather, especially one just breaking through the skin, that looks like a small stub: »Remove all the pinfeathers from the chicken before cooking it …   Useful english dictionary

• pin·up — /ˈpınˌʌp/ noun, pl ups [count] 1 : a photograph of an attractive person (such as an actress or model) that is hung or pinned on a wall 2 : a person who appears in or is attractive enough to appear in a pinup He is dating a glamorous pinup. pinup… …   Useful english dictionary

• Pin Malakul — Infobox Officeholder honorific prefix =Mom Luang name =Pin Malakul honorific suffix = imagesize =190px small caption = order = office =Thai Minister of Education term start =1957 term end =1969 predecessor =Munee Mahasantana successor =Sukij… …   Wikipedia

• PIN Group — Infobox Company company name = PIN Group AG company company type = Public company slogan = Schick es grün ( send it green ) foundation = 1999 / 2005 location = Leudelange, Luxembourg key people = Horst Piepenburg, CEO industry = Postal Service,… …   Wikipedia

• pin — 1 noun (C) 1 FOR CLOTH a short thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end, used especially for fastening together pieces of cloth while making clothes 2 JEWELLERY a) AmE an attractively shaped piece of metal, sometimes containing jewels,… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Pin insulator — A pin insulator consists of a nonconducting material such as porcelain, glass, plastic, polymer, or wood that is formed into a shape that will isolate a wire from a physical support (or pin ) on a telegragh, utility pole or other structure,… …   Wikipedia