tin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tĭn
ipa: /tɪn/
ipa: [tʰɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: thin (th-stopping)
homophone: ten (pin–pen merger)
Forms: form: tins
Etymology: From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
Senses: glosses: A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
examples: text: a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish
text: Several tins of paint were needed to paint the house.
text: empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.
text: When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
ref: 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
glosses: An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
examples: text: muffin tin
text: roasting tin
text: baking tin
text: And, indeed, after a tense round of rolling, shaping and filling delicate pastry dough, Rowan can’t even pull his overstuffed pies out of the tins without them bleeding and oozing fruit filling.
ref: 2023 October 28, “Next generation ‘clasico’: Bellingham faces 1st game against a Barcelona brimming with young talents”, in The Washington Times:
text: Jones was insanely productive last season. He is a clinical route-runner who can line up at any position and catches everything.
ref: 2023 April 30, “The Lions missed their chance, and the Eagles are smarter than everybody”, in The Washington Times:
glosses: A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
squash
glosses: The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
examples: text: The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know
ref: 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby:
text: When all your tin is gone and spent, / And you've not a mag for bread or rent
ref: 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:
glosses: money, especially silver money.
glosses: computer hardware.
Synonyms: sense: airtight container
word: can
sense: airtight container
word: tin can
Derived terms: word: alpha tin
word: baking tin
word: beta tin
word: billy tin
word: biscuit tin
word: black tin
word: butter of tin
word: cake tin
word: do exactly what it says on the tin
sense: do
word: what it says on the tin
word: give a tin shit
word: gray tin
word: grey tin
word: Indian tin
word: indium tin oxide
word: lead-tin
word: like a cat on a hot tin roof
word: mess tin
word: muffin tin
word: organotin
word: pie tin
word: put the tin lid on it
word: roasting tin
word: roofing tin
word: salt of tin
word: snap tin
word: snap-tin
word: stream tin
word: tetraethyl tin
word: tetraethyltin
word: tetraphenyl tin
word: tetraphenyltin
word: tin anniversary
word: tin bath
word: tin can
word: tin chloride
word: tin cry
word: tin derby
word: tin dichloride
word: tin dioxide
word: tin dip
word: tin disease
word: tin dog
word: tin ear
word: tin-eared
word: tin fish
word: tin foil
word: tin frame
word: tin-glazed
word: tin god
word: tin hat
word: tin-horn
word: tin knocker
word: tinless
word: tin lid
word: tin liquor
word: tin Lizzie
word: tin lizzie
word: tin man
word: tin mine
word: tinnie
word: tinny
word: tin opener
word: tin ore
word: tin oxide
word: tin penny
word: tin pentachloride
word: tin pest
word: tin plate
word: tin-plate
word: tin-plated
word: tin-plater
word: tin-plating
word: tin-pot
word: tin protochloride
word: tin pyrites
word: tin roof pie
word: tin roof sundae
word: tin salt
word: tin sandwich
word: tin snips
word: tin soldier
word: tin tab
word: tin tabernacle
word: tin tetrachloride
word: tin tetraethyl
word: tin tetraphenyl
word: tin whisker
word: tin whistle
word: tin-white cobalt
word: tributyl tin
word: tributyltin
word: trimethyl tin
word: trimethyltin
word: white tin
word: wood tin