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Meanings of push pin in English

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A nail with a large head.

Synonyms
Examples for "tack"
Examples for "tack"
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But others have been forced by current circumstances to change tack completely.
The Irish Times
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It marks a change of tack when dealing with the financial industry.
Reuters
3
Wired: Gervais takes tack-sharp aim at all things absurd -including himself.
Wired
4
This time, some companies that had sold guns for years changed tack.
Reuters
5
Mexico's national electricity company CFE will follow a similar tack, she added.
Reuters
1
He removed a thumbtack with his nail and handed me a list.
Fatal Voyage
2
A World Wildlife Fund calendar hung from a thumbtack on one wall.
Bones Are Forever
3
The pale morning star was a white thumbtack on a blueboard behind them.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamps of His Mouth
4
Sissy took out the thumbtack and turned the postcard over.
Death Mask
5
They said your dick looked like a thumbtack.
Rain gods
1
Rosalie was in the study looking for a drawing pin wherewith to affix her illuminated card to the wall.
This Freedom
2
Alan Sugar's sidekick is to be the new Countdown host Age: 67 Appearance: retired newsreader, sitting on a drawing pin.
The Guardian
3
Please don't leave any drawing pins on the floor.
The Irish Times
4
The only thing needed to complete this military operation is a set of colour-coded drawing pins.
The Irish Times
5
Father presses the drawing pins on my Red Star poster more firmly into the wall with his thumbs.
How the soldier repairs the gramophone
Usage of push pin in English
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By using a push pin and a print out of each constellation, she is able to give complete accuracy to these constellation cookies.
Wired
2
A little plastic box filled with Push Pins, rubber bands, thumbtacks, and paper clips.
Under the dome: a novel
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The application displays push pins for each restaurant within that area and lists them below the map.
Reuters
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Various devices are used to keep the film straight, and push pins or thumb tacks are supplied with almost all of them.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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This will allow the end of the film to be turned over at each end of the frame and fastened with push pins.
The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
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Rubber bands and paper clips would be no good for what she had in mind, but the tacks and Push Pins...
Under the dome: a novel