How to pronounce “pin down” in English

That's the part of it that gives us the most immediate pleasure, but it's also the most intangible, the hardestto kind of pin down.And so back in the 1970s and '80s, when I was first writing about the subject, I really wanted to write something

So the focus of my team is basically to try and characterize the host star of these planetsso that we can pin down their precise sizes, and ages, and other properties.And we use a little trick for stars like the Sun to do that, that's called stellar seismology.

All those kind of things just come up.And so you then pin down the stuff that's still up in the air, and then you get on, use that information, use their sketchesto create the line art, just black and white line art.

Absolutely. I think a lot of us have had those people in our lives.What does it even mean not to pin down something and have these fluid properties, physical things, that we can't quite

The trick will still work.But it's a little hard to pin down the details.And I'm not so sure the whole thing ever happened given this variation.

What we're really measuring is the structure of the density of stars as you get further away from the Galactic Center, and as you get further awayAnd so that will really help us pin down the exact composition of regular matter, dark matter, and dark energy, and hopefully illuminate

Let's put it like that.EDL guys who -- they're hard to pin down, exactly.

You say, well, maybe this as a fixed point for this discussion.And then you sort of put a pin down here.And here's one here.

Richard: And you know Armstrong was probably well you know and then Armstrong was the next guy.He'd been very hard to pin down initially.

And there were rumors even of fish related murders.And it took me a very long time to pin down whether there is any truth to that.Yeah, I'm sure. And with a character like Kenny the Fish, where do you start?

you get that measurement of the wobbling star, and you pair it with the light curve, the light curve is giving you the estimatedThey can do a whole lot in terms of trying to pin down, for instance, a lot of the Kepler candidates.

"Part of what makes zombies so frightening is that they are not evil. The zombie, a Caribbean borrowing, is in its North American guise a modern parable for-well, there you go. Likeall parables zombies are both widely evocative and impossible to pin down."Part of the reason that you purchased this game was because you were curious to see what the Japanese imagination had made of the zombie. This was a culture after all that had transformed

you get that measurement of the wobbling star, and you pair it with the light curve, the light curve is giving you the estimatedlike, get more information to pin down our potential targets, our other Earths.

Then combine with, is the story in the hands?period drama, but it is a little harder to pin down than that.

Nothing. Shoving aside his confusion, he pushed himself to one knee with a grunt.What was it? His mouth worked silently, trying to pin down the words dancing at the edge of his tongue.

deep economic changes, as well as-- and this is the most slippery of all to pin down-- new kinds of feelings and mass awareness

you get that measurement of the wobbling star, and you pair it with the light curve, the light curve is giving you the estimatedvia photometry, light curves, you can pin down its rotation rate.

Oh. Now, I have thought about this question a lot, and it's hard to pin down.

And what's nice about this is that although the hard problem is this airy fairy problem about subjective experience that's hard to pin down, this is a puzzle

of those qualities. Like I said, this is not a solution to the meta-problem, but it's trying, at least, to pin down

The second turning point I identify is in the mid-19th century, and this occurred when the first attempts were being made to pin down the meaning of civil war in legal vocabulary--

So the Open Internet Initiative, when I started thinking about this, it's actually hard to pin down what that means.

OK. Number three, the third obstacle, trying to pin down the pivotal moment.

The Doha, you know, get on top of the--make it sure a development round and, you know, pin down the representatives. You know, we just had the presidential campaign but it