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tin
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cake tinBritish English, a cake pan American English (= that you bake a cake in)
▪ Use a 20 cm cake tin.
a can/tin/pot of paint
▪ He had spilt a can of paint on the floor.
cake tin
tin opener
tin whistle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
empty
▪ Most of them looked as if they had been moulded in empty cat food tins.
▪ She thrust the empty tin under our noses.
▪ There were dozens of empty tins too, soup and baked beans, all mixed together with dozens of mouldy bread wrappers.
▪ A sack of empty tins lay beside each aircraft: accumulated cookhouse waste.
▪ It was soon ablaze, with the empty tin and rubber gloves buried deep in its midst.
▪ The infantry tied empty tins to the wire to act as alarm bells, but they were only ever sounded by rats.
▪ Another little group lines up with empty tin cans by the single water truck, waiting for the daily ration.
▪ When it rained, the water would drop off the wire into the empty tins below.
large
▪ He had bought three large tins of pilchards.
▪ A large tin tub housed chunks of ice-sheltered beer.
▪ But, before he could say anything, Mrs Danby emerged from round a large pile of tins of tuna-fish.
▪ Patsy thought there ought to be a large tin in every home.
▪ Trim spare ribs of any excess fat, then place in a large roasting tin.
▪ On the piano was a large tin of Duraglit.
▪ In his hands was a large tin.
▪ Underneath the sink he found a large tin of rat poison.
little
▪ The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
▪ A little bitty tin bell, two, maybe three feet high.
▪ Paul D never worried about his little tobacco tin anymore.
old
▪ On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
▪ Henry was rooting about among some old biscuit tins in the pantry when the phone rang in the hall.
▪ Mr Wood helped him into the kitchen while Mrs Wood filled an old tin bath with warm water.
▪ Half a dozen silent men and women sat around smoking: old tins served as ashtrays.
▪ She wedged their magazines between old paint tins and imperfectly washed milk bottles and towers of flowerpots, and crept away.
▪ It was an old tin steamer trunk, its corners reinforced with iron shoes.
▪ An old paint tin, a burst packet of sheep dip.
▪ Each had a balcony at first-floor level on which geraniums bloomed in old tins.
prepared
▪ Use to line the prepared quiche tins. 3.
▪ Fold in the lemon juice and zest. 4 Pour into the prepared cake tin and smooth the top level.
▪ Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes or until the sponge is springy to the touch.
▪ Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and tilt the tin to level the mixture.
▪ Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon.
▪ Turn into the prepared cake tin and smooth the top.
▪ Pour into the prepared tins and bake immediately, for 20-25min or until the cakes are cooked. 5.
roasting
▪ Cook in the oven for 20 minutes, then pour away as much fat as possible from the roasting tin.
▪ The Vision even comes with two baking sheets and an vitreous enamelled roasting tin and trivet.
▪ Trim spare ribs of any excess fat, then place in a large roasting tin.
▪ Transfer to a roasting tin and bake for 30 minutes until crispy. 3.
▪ Weight the bird; transfer to a rack in a roasting tin and cover with aluminium foil.
▪ Then skim off the fat, pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up.
▪ Place the duck on a rack in a roasting tin.
round
▪ Stone was carrying two steaming mugs on a round tin tray.
small
▪ YOu have to buy the very smallest amounts, like small tins.
▪ Many people think of herbs primarily as something you; find in a small tin rather than in the backyard garden..
▪ Mustard came in a small tin and you mixed it with water.
▪ It was a small, battered tin money-box.
▪ He snapped shut a file on his desk, reached for his briefcase and extracted the small tin of vaseline.
▪ Cube and rub in margarine. 2 Press into a small tin.
▪ Potato crisps. Small tin of garden peas.
▪ Obviously it is not practical to have large bar codes on small products such as tins of peas.
square
▪ These were very simple devices two small paraffin burners in square tins which gave a modest flame.
■ NOUN
bath
▪ On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
▪ Every Monday Mrs Evans washed all the family's clothes in the tin bath.
▪ Mr Wood helped him into the kitchen while Mrs Wood filled an old tin bath with warm water.
▪ Swilled quickly in a tin bath, it hung over the nurse's hand like a wet sock.
biscuit
▪ And as for that little Crispin, when he comes here he never has his hand out of the biscuit tin.
▪ Thérèse clasped the biscuit tin in the crook of her arm.
▪ During the afternoon he'd made a small quantity of Recipe 179 - enough to fill three biscuit tins.
▪ Fill the glass with water, then place the biscuit tin lid over it, lip uppermost.
▪ Going to the kitchen window, the biscuit tin still in her hands, she saw an extraordinary sight.
▪ The biscuit tin supported the open recipe book.
▪ Henry was rooting about among some old biscuit tins in the pantry when the phone rang in the hall.
▪ Jars of boiled sweets, rusks, biscuit tins and chocolate boxes are on view.
box
▪ The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
▪ There was a scrape as she brought a taper forth from a tin box and leaned towards the fire to light it.
▪ Its best-selling model is the Kijang, a tin box developed through a joint venture with Toyota.
▪ She scrambled the piece of paper back into its sugar-and-vanilla-scented tin box.
▪ She took out the tin box of letters and carried it back with her into the kitchen.
▪ The head was then pickled in a ten-foot long tin box, and the rotting body returned to the ocean.
cake
▪ Victorine balanced the cake tin on the palm of her outstretched hand and frowned at it.
▪ She lifts a cake tin out of her tote bag.
▪ Pour into a 7in round cake tin. 2.
▪ Fold in the lemon juice and zest. 4 Pour into the prepared cake tin and smooth the top level.
▪ There are plenty of cake tins in this month's equipment feature on page 68 to inspire creative cake baking.
▪ I've got all her cake tins and her chopping board, which still smells very evocatively of her wonderful Wienerschnitzel.
▪ There were a number of cake tins and Melanie opened one and found last night's currant cake.
▪ Spread half the cake mixture into a greased and lined cake tin.
can
▪ Their planking was patched with corrugated iron, their roofs shingled with flattened tin cans.
▪ The fence was sheltered on three sides by a screen of scrap lumber and flattened tin cans.
▪ He recalls building himself private altars of chocolate wrappers and tin cans.
▪ And the coffee is terrible, always being reheated from the bottom of a tin can.
▪ Bottle tops, silver paper and tin cans are the last things you should throw away.
▪ And looking like a big tin can, about to be crumpled up.
▪ In this bin is placed tin cans, washed and flattened, hard plastics and glass bottles.
▪ Another little group lines up with empty tin cans by the single water truck, waiting for the daily ration.
ear
▪ He also had, the article conveys, a tin ear for the ordinary man.
▪ Labour's tin ear for liberty is matched by its deafness to democracy.
foil
▪ They put on tin foil hats and spoke an incomprehensible vernacular.
▪ They carry with them covered dishes, salad bowls, and platters covered with tin foil.
▪ He lost three stones in weight and had to be wrapped in tin foil in hospital because of heat loss.
▪ Because, for us, tin foil cups house more than custards.
loaf
▪ Pour into a loaf tin and bake at 350°C for about 1 hour or until cooked right through.
▪ Rinse a loaf tin with cold water and stand it in a dish surrounded by ice cubes.
mess
▪ From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe, he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit.
▪ We finished our soup and swilled out the mess tins with water from the jerry-can.
▪ The mess tin went back into the cupboard.
▪ Each man got a mug of lime juice and water, and a mess tin of dates.
▪ Some one brought me a mess tin half full of very hot tea; it tasted good.
mine
▪ He invented the Cornish engine, a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines.
▪ Why were most of the tin mines in Cornwall closed earlier this century?
▪ The expanding copper and tin mines of west Cornwall depended on mule trains until the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
▪ Producing tin mine with co-product zinc and by-product copper and silver.
▪ In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast.
▪ At one time there were 400 tin mines in Cornwall alone.
mining
▪ The driver swears but brakes as yet another tin mining family climb aboard the truck already bulging with people and their belongings.
▪ The new industries A. Earlier this century tin mining declined.
▪ This was given nine months before the bank collapsed and financed Gasco's takeover of Cornish tin mining company St Piran.
▪ From the early period of tin mining to the 1940s women were often concentrators of minerals.
▪ The reclamation venture provides just one example of the resourcefulness which engineers have to display to succeed in tin mining in Cornwall.
▪ Professional Cornishman who resigned the Tory whip in protest at tin mining closures, but was too loyal to tell anyone.
opener
▪ He may need special implements, such as a wall-mounted tin opener which he can operate with one hand.
▪ The little gear lever feels like a tin opener on a string of cables.
▪ For example, this graph shows sales of tin openers from January to June.
oxide
▪ The waste contains tin oxide, in proportions too minute for last century's miners to recover.
▪ Flotation is important in separating particles of tin oxide less than about 40 micrometres in diameter.
▪ The chemicals have to be carefully selected so that they affect only the tin oxide and nothing else.
▪ Into these flowed more molten rock, carrying minerals such as tin oxide.
plate
▪ Many specialist tins are made from tin plate or aluminium.
▪ Blindly, I opened a cupboard door, but all I found were tin plates.
roof
▪ The house we were in was solid Victorian in style, both inside and out, except that it had a tin roof.
▪ I was rescued momentarily by the first drops of rain, pinging on the tin roof above us.
▪ In the night a ferocious hail-storm rattles on the tin roof.
▪ It was easy duty: all paperwork, no humping, a tin roof over his head.
▪ The tin roof of the verandah is home to all sorts of creatures.
▪ Wooden posts supported a tin roof Most people at Holy Trinity had dined in more gracious picnic shelters.
▪ I have a tin roof instead of bamboo.
tobacco
▪ Paul D never worried about his little tobacco tin anymore.
tray
▪ She scooped up coffee-pot, bread-basket, jam-pots, Camembert, on to the tin tray, and made for the door.
▪ Pots and tin trays were clanging over the whirr of dishwashers; the tables smelled sweet and oily.
▪ Punters throw coins, trying to score a hit in the tin trays.
▪ Stone was carrying two steaming mugs on a round tin tray.
▪ She had promptly dropped her tin tray and her shrill shrieks began to split the crisp winter air.
▪ An electric kettle, plugged into the wall, steamed on a tin tray, surrounded by waiting cups.
trunk
▪ Did I mention, I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic?
▪ Bread is baked every day in a tin trunk and all food is cooked over an open fire.
▪ An enormous tin trunk was brought down from the attic, and systematically packed with everything needed for a month's holiday.
▪ Keeps them in a tin trunk in his pillbox.
whistle
▪ The older man plays an accordion, and the younger one plays a tin whistle in the musical interlude.
▪ She might as well have had a tin whistle buried in that neck of hers.
▪ I walked up to one young guy in full get-up playing the tin whistle near the Harness and Saddle maker store.
■ VERB
carry
▪ A few minutes later she returned with Ben, who was carrying a tin bowl of water.
▪ Into these flowed more molten rock, carrying minerals such as tin oxide.
cool
▪ Leave to cool in the tin, but before it is completely cold cut into small neat wedges.
▪ Leave to cool slightly in the tin before turning out and transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
▪ Leave cakes to cool in tins, then turn out and store, wrapped in fresh greaseproof paper and foil.
▪ Tip: Do not overcook cake as it will dry out while cooling in tin.
▪ Remove from oven and leave to cool in tin for 5 minutes.
▪ Leave to cool in the tin.
fill
▪ During the afternoon he'd made a small quantity of Recipe 179 - enough to fill three biscuit tins.
▪ Bathtime meant filling a hot tin tub from kettles.
▪ Mr Wood helped him into the kitchen while Mrs Wood filled an old tin bath with warm water.
▪ You simply fill a leaky tin with water, and hang it from a tree.
hold
▪ She held the open tin under my nose: tuna - oh boy.
▪ His monkey skipped and pulled on its lead and held out a tin cup to the crowd.
keep
▪ Tin plate is cheaper and quite durable, but keeping tin rust-free does pose problems.
▪ He saves all his coppers and keeps them in his tin.
▪ They should be either burnt or laid out flat to dry, or kept in an airtight tin.
▪ The cake keeps well in a tin or tightly wrapped in foil and should be served sliced, buttered or with jam.
put
▪ They each put money into a tin and moved on.
▪ They put on tin foil hats and spoke an incomprehensible vernacular.
▪ Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin.
▪ That put the tin lid on it as far as Patrick Kelly was concerned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a tin of Christmas cookies
▪ A machine separates the tin from paper and plastic in the trash.
▪ a muffin tin
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All I wanted was a tin of paint.
▪ I am a Woodman, and made of tin.
▪ Less than half an hour later she cleaned the brush in white spirit and pressed the lid of the tin noiselessly down.
▪ The alluvial tin, from the Malayan river gravels, is almost exhausted.
▪ They carry with them covered dishes, salad bowls, and platters covered with tin foil.
II.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a tin cup
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He says when they started they had to improvise and some of the lights on the stage were just tin boxes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tin

Tin \Tin\, n. [As. tin; akin to D. tin, G. zinn, OHG. zin, Icel. & Dan. tin, Sw. tenn; of unknown origin.]

  1. (Chem.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft silvery-white crystalline metal, with a tinge of yellowish-blue, and a high luster. It is malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is softer than gold and can be beaten out into very thin strips called tinfoil. It is ductile at 2120, when it can be drawn out into wire which is not very tenacious; it melts at 4420, and at a higher temperature burns with a brilliant white light. Air and moisture act on tin very slightly. The peculiar properties of tin, especially its malleability, its brilliancy and the slowness with which it rusts make it very serviceable. With other metals it forms valuable alloys, as bronze, gun metal, bell metal, pewter and solder. 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. Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.

  3. Money. [Cant]
    --Beaconsfield.

    Block tin (Metal.), commercial tin, cast into blocks, and partially refined, but containing small quantities of various impurities, as copper, lead, iron, arsenic, etc.; solid tin as distinguished from tin plate; -- called also bar tin.

    Butter of tin. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming.

    Grain tin. (Metal.) See under Grain.

    Salt of tin (Dyeing), stannous chloride, especially so called when used as a mordant.

    Stream tin. See under Stream.

    Tin cry (Chem.), the peculiar creaking noise made when a bar of tin is bent. It is produced by the grating of the crystal granules on each other.

    Tin foil, tin reduced to a thin leaf.

    Tin frame (Mining), a kind of buddle used in washing tin ore.

    Tin liquor, Tin mordant (Dyeing), stannous chloride, used as a mordant in dyeing and calico printing.

    Tin penny, a customary duty in England, formerly paid to tithingmen for liberty to dig in tin mines. [Obs.]
    --Bailey.

    Tin plate, thin sheet iron coated with tin.

    Tin pyrites. See Stannite.

Tin

Tin \Tin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tinned; p. pr. & vb. n. Tinning.] To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tin

Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tinom (cognates: Middle Dutch and Dutch tin, Old High German zin, German Zinn, Old Norse tin), of unknown origin, not found outside Germanic.\n

\nOther Indo-European languages often have separate words for "tin" as a raw metal and "tin plate;" such as French étain, fer-blanc. Pliny refers to tin as plumbum album "white lead," and for centuries it was regarded as a form of silver debased by lead; hence its figurative use for "mean, petty, worthless." The chemical symbol Sn is from Late Latin stannum (see stannic).\n

\nMeaning "container made of tin" is from 1795. Tin-can is from 1770; as naval slang for "destroyer," by 1937. Tin-type in photography is from 1864. Tin ear "lack of musical discernment" is from 1909. Tin Lizzie "early Ford, especially a Model T," first recorded 1915.

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Wiktionary
tin

  1. 1 Made of tin. 2 Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron. n. 1 (context uncountable English) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn. 2 (context NZ British countable English) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food. 3 (context countable English) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc. 4 (context countable squash English) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the squash ball. 5 (context slang dated uncountable English) money v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To place into a tin in order to preserve. 2 (context transitive English) To cover with tin. 3 (context transitive English) To coat with solder in preparation for soldering.

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WordNet
tin

  1. n. 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 [syn: Sn, atomic number 50]

  2. metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour [syn: canister, cannister]

  3. airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: can, tin can]

  4. [also: tinning, tinned]

tin

  1. v. plate with tin

  2. preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: can, put up]

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

  4. [also: tinning, tinned]

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Wikipedia
TIN

TIN may refer to:

  • Tax identification number, used for tax purposes in the United States
  • Titanium nitride (TiN), a ceramic material
  • Triangulated irregular network, a geometric data structure
  • Tubulo-interstitial nephritis, a medical condition affecting kidneys
Tin (newsreader)

tin is an open source text-based and threaded news client, used to read and post messages on the USENET global communications network.

Tin (disambiguation)

Tin is a chemical element.

Tin may also refer to:

  • Tinplate, tin coated steel
  • Tin can, a tinplate container
  • Tin box, a boxlike tinplate container
  • Coating the leads of an electronic component with solder during hand soldering
  • Tin (newsreader), a text-based Usenet client
  • Tin, member of the Metal Men
  • Titanium nitride (TiN), an extremely hard ceramic material
  • Tin, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
  • At-Tin, the 95th sura of the Qur'an
  • In squash (sport), the tin is the bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball
  • Corrugated galvanised iron, in expressions such as "tin tabernacle" or "tin roof"
  • Triangulated irregular network, a digital data structure.
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Usage examples of "tin".

Even the steadily increasing snow did not cut into the glare of the lights very much, or change the illusion that the whole works, from the crappy siding to the pair of tin woodstove stacks sticking acrooked out of the roof to the single rusty gas-pump out front, was simply set-dressing.

In the alameda a few small tin foldingtables had been set out and young girls were stringing paper ribbon overhead.

Almost choking, Ben wrenched himself free, and as he staggered back against the partition on which the tin stuff was stacked Alee flung up the counter flap and was on him again.

She refused to lose any more children to tins bloodthirsty war of Arcadian against Katagaria.

He sipped from a tin mug of arrack while Sharpe negotiated the muslin screen and then stood to attention beneath the ridge pole.

The prisoner, as she herself states, this time procured a tin of arsenical weed-killer, of the same brand that was mentioned in the Kidwelly poisoning case.

It is essentially an arsenide of iron, carrying a considerable quantity of tin.

And did I get that tin out in a hurry - and I felt awful, Asey, sneaking about with it!

The black tin weighed by the vanner is supposed to correspond in quality with the black tin returned from the floors of the mine for which he is assaying, but this differs materially in different mines with the nature of the gangue.

It is certainly the most ready and expeditious mode of determining the commercial value of a parcel of tin ore, which, after all, is the main object of all assaying operations.

I found an assegai, cleaned it in the ground which it needed, and opening one of the tins, lay down in a tuft of grass by a dead man, or rather between him and some Zulus whom he had killed, and devoured its contents.

The constantly increasing accumulation of pieces of machinery, big brass castings, block tin, casks, crates, and packages of innumerable articles, by their demands for space, necessitated the sacrifice of most of the slighter partitions of the house, and the beams and flooring of the upper chambers were also mercilessly sawn away by the tireless scientist in such a way as to convert them into mere shelves and corner brackets of the atrial space between cellars and rafters.

He also had carmine, vermilion, a useful tin yellow and two blues, azurite and what he claimed to be lapis which he sold us at an extortionate price.

Cookie tins at the bakeware store in the mall, a store I adored, would be way too expensive.

As they proceeded, he marked roughly on the side of his tin baler, with the point of a pin borrowed from Helen, the form of the coast line.