Grammar. 1  Also called objective case. (in English and some other languages) a case specialized for the use of a form as the object of a transitive verb or of a preposition, as him in The boy hit him, or me in He comes to me with his troubles. 2  a word in that case.
pinning-a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin. promise-a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future.
If your fracture is in the neck of the femur (the part just below the top of the bone) you may have a hip pinning procedure. During this surgery: 1  You lie on a special table. 2  This allows your surgeon to use an x-ray machine to see how well the parts of your hip bone line up.