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draw·ing pin

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. thumbtack, drawing pin, pushpinnoun

    a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board

Wiktionary

  1. drawing pinnoun

    A tack for attaching paper to a drawing board etc

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  1. drawing pin

    A drawing pin, also known as a thumbtack or push pin, is a short, pointed instrument often made of metal or plastic that is used for fastening objects such as paper or documents to a surface like a wall or a bulletin board. It usually has a flat, round head that you can push with your thumb or finger.

Wikidata

  1. Drawing pin

    A thumb tack or push pin is a short nail or pin used to fasten items to a wall or board for display and intended to be inserted by hand generally without the assistance of tools. A variety of names are used to refer to different designs intended for various purpose. Thumb tack and push pin are both sometimes compounded or hyphenated. Thumb tacks made of brass, tin or iron may be referred to as brass tacks, brass pins, tin tacks or iron tacks, respectively. These terms are particularly used in the idiomatic expression to come down to brass tacks, meaning to consider basic facts of a situation. Drawing pin or drawing-pin refers to thumb tacks used to hold drawings on drawing boards. Map pin or map tack refers to thumb tacks used to mark locations on a map and to hold the map in place. Paper cricket is a genericized trademark originally referring to a particular brand of thumb tack or push pin with a wide head for easy insertion.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of drawing pin in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of drawing pin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

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