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Drawing pin. A drawing pin (in British English) or [thumb] tack (in North American English), also called a push-pin, is a short, small pin or nail with a flat, broad head that can be pressed into place with pressure from the thumb, often used for hanging light articles on a wall or noticeboard. Thumb tacks made of brass, tin or iron may be ...
Push-pin (game) 1797 James Gillray cartoon depicting push-pin. Push-pin was an English child's game played from the 16th until the 19th centuries. It is also known as "put-pin", and it is similar to Scottish games called "Hattie" and "Pop the Bonnet". [1] In philosophy it has been used as an example of a relatively worthless form of amusement.
A pin is a device, typically pointed, used for fastening objects or fabrics together. Pins can have the following sorts of body: a shaft of a rigid inflexible material meant to be inserted in a slot, groove, or hole (as with pivots, hinges, and jigs) a shaft connected to a head and ending in a sharp tip meant to pierce one or more pieces of ...
Heat-sink types: pin, straight, and flared fin. A pin fin heat sink is a heat sink that has pins that extend from its base. The pins can be cylindrical, elliptical, or square. A second type of heat sink fin arrangement is the straight fin. A variation on the straight fin heat sink is a cross-cut heat sink.
Push Pin Studios is a graphic design and illustration studio founded by the influential graphic designers Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast in New York City in 1954. The firm's work, and distinctive illustration style, featuring "bulgy" three-dimensional "interpretations of historical styles (Victorian, art nouveau, art deco),"made their mark by departing from what the firm refers to as the ...
The Albanian Wikipedia (Albanian: Wikipedia Shqip) is the Albanian language edition of Wikipedia started on 12 October 2003. As of 5 September 2024, the Wikipedia has 99,130 articles and is the 73rd-largest Wikipedia.
Push pin (disambiguation) A push pin is a short nail or pin with a long, cylindrical head made of plastic. Push pin may also refer to: Push-pin (game), an English child's game. Push Pin Studios, a graphic design studio. Category: