Pining vs. Pinning — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Pining and Pinning
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Pining
To feel a lingering, often nostalgic desire.
Pinning
A short, straight, stiff piece of wire with a blunt head and a sharp point, used especially for fastening.
Pining
To wither or waste away from longing or grief
Pined away and died.
Pinning
Something, such as a safety pin, that resembles such a piece of wire in shape or use.
Pining
To grieve or mourn for.
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Pinning
A whit; a jot
Didn't care a pin about the matter.
Pining
Intense longing or grief.
Pinning
A thin rod for securing the ends of fractured bones.
Pining
Present participle of pine
Pinning
A peg for fixing the crown to the root of a tooth.
Pining
The act of one who pines.
Pinning
A cotter pin.
Pining
Languishing; drooping; wasting away, as with longing.
Pinning
The part of a key stem entering a lock.
Pining
Wasting; consuming.
Pinning
(Music) One of the pegs securing the strings and regulating their tension on a stringed instrument.
Pining
A feeling of deep longing
Pinning
(Nautical) A belaying pin.
Pinning
(Nautical) A thole pin.
Pinning
An ornament fastened to clothing by means of a clasp.
Pinning
A rolling pin.
Pinning
One of the wooden clubs at which the ball is aimed in bowling.
Pinning
A flagstick.
Pinning
See fall.
Pinning
Pins(Informal) The legs
Is steady on his pins.
Pinning
(Electronics) A lead on a device that plugs into a socket to connect the device to a system.
Pinning
Any of the pegs on the platen of a printer, which engage holes at the edges of paper.
Pinning
Any of the styluses that form a dot matrix on a printer.
Pinning
Any of the small metal prongs at the end of a connector that fit into the holes in a port.
Pinning
To fasten or secure with or as if with a pin or pins.
Pinning
To transfix.
Pinning
To place in a position of trusting dependence
He pinned his faith on an absurdity.
Pinning
To hold fast; immobilize
He was pinned under the wreckage of the truck.
Pinning
(Sports) To win a fall from in wrestling.
Pinning
To give (a woman) a fraternity pin in token of attachment.
Pinning
Having a grain suggestive of the heads of pins. Used of leather.
Pinning
Present participle of pin
Pinning
The action of the verb pin in any sense.
Pinning
A ceremony in which a pin badge is given.
Pinning
(physics) The establishment of the definite quantum state of a particle, or of the occupation number of a system of particles
Pinning
A mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin
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