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Definition of 'Tin'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) tin
a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element with a silvery color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders.

2.  tin
any shallow pan, esp. one used in baking:
a pie tin.

3.  tin
any pot, can, or other container made of tin or tin plate.

4.  tin
Chiefly Brit. a hermetically sealed can containing food.

5. (adj.) tin
made of tin or tin plate.

6.  tin
false; worthless:
tin values.

7.  tin
indicating the tenth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.

8. (v.t.) tin
to cover or coat with tin.

9.  tin
to coat with soft solder.

10.  tin
Chiefly Brit. to preserve or pack (food, etc.) in cans.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME, OE, c. OFris, MD, ON tin, OHG zin)

Definition of 'Tin'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) tin, Sn, atomic number 50
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

2. (noun) tin
a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking

3. (noun) canister, cannister, tin
metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

4. (verb) can, tin, tin can
airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.

5. (verb) tin
plate with tin

6. (verb) can, tin, put up
preserve in a can or tin
"tinned foods are not very tasty"

7. (verb) tin
prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface

Definition of 'Tin'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) tin
a soft silver metal
a tin roof

2.  tin
a metal storage container
a tin of cookies

3.  tin
a can for food

4.  tin
a pan for cooking in the oven

Definition of 'Tin'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Tin
an elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4

2. (noun) Tin
thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate

3. (noun) Tin
money

4. (verb) Tin
to cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil

Definition of 'Tin'

U.S. National Library of Medicine

1. Tin
A trace element that is required in bone formation. It has the atomic symbol Sn, atomic number 50, and atomic weight 118.71.

Translation of 'Tin'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an element, a silvery white metal Is that box made of tin or steel?
Afrikaans: tin	Arabic: قَصْدير	Bulgarian: калай
Brazilian: lata	Czech: cín	German: das Zinn
Danish: tin; blik	Greek: κασσίτερος	Spanish: estaño, hojalata
Estonian: tina	Farsi: قلع	Finnish: tina
French: étain; fer-blanc	Hebrew: בְּדִיל	Hindi: टिन
Croatian: lim	Hungarian: ón; bádog	Indonesian: timah
Icelandic: tin	Italian: stagno	Japanese: すず
Korean: 주석	Lithuanian: alavas	Latvian: alva
Malay: timah	Dutch: tin	Norwegian: tinn; blikk
Polish: cyna	Persian: قلع	Pashto: ټيم، دبلې، كوټۍ ( قطى ):
Portuguese: lata	Romanian: cositor; tablă	Russian: олово
Slovak: cín	Slovenian: kositer; bela pločevina	Serbian: lim
Swedish: bleck, plåt, tenn	Thai: ดีบุก	Turkish: kalay, teneke
Taiwanese: 錫，馬口鐵	Ukrainian: олово	Urdu: ٹين، رانگ
Vietnamese: thiếc	Chinese: 锡，马口铁
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