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How to pronounce pinion in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms shackle
Type of restrain, confine, constrain, hold
Type Words
Synonyms pennon
Type of wing
Type Words
Synonyms flight feather, quill, quill feather
Type of plumage, feather, plume
Has types tail feather, primary, primary feather, primary quill
Type Words
Type of cogwheel, gear, gear wheel, geared wheel
Has types lantern pinion, lantern wheel
Type Words
Type of disable, disenable, incapacitate

Examples of pinion

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The former electric power steering has reverted to a hydraulic rack-and-pinion.
From the online.wsj.com
Pinion and his teammates will host defending 3A state champs West Rowan Friday.
From the charlotteobserver.com
I very much did not want to replace the rack and pinion steering a second time.
From the guardian.co.uk
Ride away on 17-inch aluminum wheels guided by power rack-and-pinion steering.
From the foxbusiness.com
Pinion, says Sood, almost went broke three times before joining the Bing Fund.
From the techcrunch.com
Maybe sell watermelons, stacks of firewood, and pinion nuts on the side of the road.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
The remaining length of a given pinion meshes with the nearer spur gear on its axle.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Such large engines would require a rack and pinion to be moved effectively.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The rack-and-pinion steering has been modified for a more direct ratio.
From the nzherald.co.nz
More examples
  • A gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack
  • Bind the arms of
  • Flight feather: any of the larger wing or tail feathers of a bird
  • Cut the wings off (of birds)
  • Pennon: wing of a bird
  • A pinion is a round gear used in several applications: *usually the smallest gear in a gear drive train, although in the case of John Blenkinsop's The Salamanca, the pinion was rather large. In many cases, such as remote controlled toys, the pinion is also the drive gear.
  • Flight feathers are the long, stiff, asymmetrically shaped, but symmetrically paired feathers on the wings or tail of a bird; those on the wings are called remiges (singular remex) while those on the tail are called rectrices (singular rectrix). ...
  • Broken is an extended play (EP) by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released on September 22, 1992. The EP was produced by Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Flood. ...
  • A wing; The joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body; The outermost primary feathers on a bird's wing; To remove the joint of a bird's wing farthest from the body to prevent the bird from flying; To restrain by binding or holding the arms