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Tin
Definitions
- 1 Made of tin. not-comparable
- 2 Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron. not-comparable
"[I]n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab[ernacle] - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that."
- 3 Made of aluminum. not-comparable
- 1 A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn. uncountable
- 2 Initialism of taxpayer identification number. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"The AOTC and/or LLC cannot be claimed if the TIN is issued after the due date of the return (including extensions)."
- 3 airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. wordnet
- 4 Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant. countable, metonymically, uncountable
"The roof was made of tin, which had been cut with tin snips."
- 5 metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour wordnet
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- 6 An airtight container, made of tin-coated steel (called tinplate or tin), (formerly) tin, aluminium, or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product. Commonwealth, UK, countable
"a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish"
- 7 a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking wordnet
- 8 A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc. countable
"muffin tin"
- 9 a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide wordnet
- 10 The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball. countable
- 11 money, especially silver money. dated, slang, uncountable
"The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know"
- 12 computer hardware. slang, uncountable
- 1 To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve. transitive
- 2 prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface wordnet
- 3 To cover with tin. transitive
- 4 preserve in a can or tin wordnet
- 5 To coat with solder; To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint transitive
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- 6 plate with tin wordnet
- 7 To coat with solder; To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire transitive
Etymology
From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
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