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Tin   /tɪn/   Listen
Tin

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: atomic number 50, Sn.
2.
A vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking.
3.
Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour.  Synonyms: canister, cannister.
4.
Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..  Synonyms: can, tin can.
verb
(past & past part. tinned; pres. part. tinning)
1.
Plate with tin.
2.
Preserve in a can or tin.  Synonyms: can, put up.
3.
Prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface.



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"Tin" Quotes from Famous Books



... glad." We all filed into the front room and sat round the central table while the Inspector unlocked a square tin box and laid a small heap of things before us. There was a box of vestas, two inches of tallow candle, an A D P brier-root pipe, a pouch of seal-skin with half an ounce of long-cut Cavendish, a silver watch with a gold chain, five sovereigns in gold, an ...
— Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... strain that ghostly fright sets up in the human system. I stood there feeling positively ill. But I got myself in hand, as it were, in about half a minute, and then I went, walking, I expect, as jerky as a mechanical tin man, and switching the light from side to side, before and behind, and over my head continually. And the hand that held my revolver sweated so much, that the thing fairly slipped in my fist. Does not sound very heroic, ...
— Carnacki, The Ghost Finder • William Hope Hodgson
... uncovered and the other sheathed in a case of cambric, be filled with water slightly warmed and then suspended in a close room, the former will lose only eleven parts in the same time that the latter will dissipate twenty parts." The superior heat-retaining capacity which a clean tin kettle possesses over one that has been allowed to collect smoke and soot, lies within the compass of ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various
... of this bath she wondered how Ruth would survive the tin tub, set absurdly in a red plush room of the Palazzo. . ...
— The Innocent Adventuress • Mary Hastings Bradley
... days the young couple, with wry faces, drank unsweetened coffee. Then this difficulty disappeared. Taking up the tin before breakfast, Dolly discovered that there was ...
— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper


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