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Meanings of
pin down
in anglès
espanyol
clavar
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Define clearly.
narrow
specify
peg down
nail down
narrow down
espanyol
clavar
català
subjectar
espanyol
prender
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Attach with or as if with a pin.
pin up
català
subjectar
portuguès
aprisionar
espanyol
atrapar
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Place in a confining or embarrassing position.
trap
portuguès
aprisionar
Synonyms
Examples for "
trap
"
trap
Examples for "
trap
"
1
The Roman opened the
trap
-
door
in the ground in order to descend.
2
Conclusions: Results strongly encourage the use of
BG
-
trap
for collecting host-seeking An.
3
So let us also use him to help us set our
trap
.
4
They often booby
trap
areas under their control before leaving, complicating return.
5
He closed and bolted the
trap
-
door
in the floor of the tower.
Usage of
pin down
in anglès
1
Exactly why Green wants to do this is difficult to
pin
down
.
2
Review:It is never an easy one to
pin
down
,
this Oxegen lark.
3
Perhaps, it was the fact that he was harder to
pin
down
.
4
It was hard to
pin
down
the exact reason for Footsie's rise.
5
He smiled at me, with not quite enough nastiness to
pin
down
.
6
She doesn't seem to have been an easy person to
pin
down
.
7
There were probably several misses, but I could only
pin
down
one.
8
France's nuclear lobby is hard to
pin
down
because it is intricate.
9
Someone else was lurking about: a sneaky fellow hard to
pin
down
.
10
It is likely to be very faint and hard to
pin
down
.
11
The meeting with Lucinda had been a dream hard to
pin
down
.
12
This makes transactions harder to track, and perpetrators harder to
pin
down
.
13
He says post punk as a genre is hard to
pin
down
.
14
What's more, the facts here were proving mighty hard to
pin
down
.
15
Perhaps that's why he is such a hard man to
pin
down
.
16
It was hard to
pin
down
her location in such psychic chaos.
Other examples for "pin down"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of:
pin
down
pin
Verb
Preposition
Translations for
pin down
espanyol
clavar
identificar exactamente
especificar
reducir
prender
atrapar
català
subjectar
portuguès
aprisionar
Pin down
through the time
Pin down
across language varieties
Ireland
Common
New Zealand
Common
United States of America
Common
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