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PINION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
pennon; pinion
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pinion" is a kind of...):
wing (a movable organ for flying (one of a pair))
Holonyms ("pinion" is a part of...):
bird (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Derivation:
pinion (cut the wings off (of birds))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
Synonyms:
flight feather; pinion; quill; quill feather
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("pinion" is a kind of...):
feather; plumage; plume (the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pinion"):
primary; primary feather; primary quill (one of the main flight feathers projecting along the outer edge of a bird's wing)
tail feather (feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird)
Holonyms ("pinion" is a part of...):
wing (a movable organ for flying (one of a pair))
Derivation:
pinion (cut the wings off (of birds))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("pinion" is a kind of...):
cogwheel; gear; gear wheel; geared wheel (a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pinion"):
lantern pinion; lantern wheel (a small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pinion
... he / she / it pinions
Past simple: pinioned
-ing form: pinioning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "pinion" is one way to...):
disable; disenable; incapacitate (make unable to perform a certain action)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
pinion (wing of a bird)
pinion (any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Synonyms:
pinion; shackle
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "pinion" is one way to...):
confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
They want to pinion the prisoners
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