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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

... to observe any motion in them. The little slit however, admitted the whole scene to the retina, and he perceived that ten of the most cut-throat-looking men conceivable were seated in a semicircle in the act of receiving portions from the big pot into tin plates. Most of them were clothed in hunters' leathern costume, wore long boots with spurs, and were more or less bronzed ...

— Charlie to the Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne

... was more funny for me than for the poor whales. Some whalers, men who go out in vessels to catch these enormous fishes for their flesh, their oil, and their bones, were banging great heavy pieces of tin of iron against stones, so frightening the whales that they crowded in a body into a ...

— Lord Dolphin • Harriet A. Cheever

... Under the high dark sky a cold wind smelt of snow. At dawn the Military Hotel and the Telegraph Agency had been taken by large forces of yunkers, and bloodily recaptured. The Telephone Station was besieged by sailors, who lay behind barricades of barrels, boxes and tin sheets in the middle of the Morskaya, or sheltered themselves at the corner of the Gorokhovaya and of St. Isaac's Square, shooting at anything that moved. Occasionally an automobile passed in and out, flying the Red Cross flag. The sailors ...

— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed

... wearing them, and I should not have the pleasure of being envied." Bancroft (I., 128) says of the Kutchin Indians: "Beads are their wealth, used in the place of money, and the rich among them literally load themselves with necklaces and strings of various patterns." Referring to the tin ornaments worn by Dyaks, Carl Bock says he has "counted as many as sixteen rings in a single ear, each of them the size of a dollar"; while of the Ghonds Forsyth tells us (148) that they "deck themselves with an inordinate amount of what they consider ornaments. Quantity rather than quality ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... the same rate. How, the whole wood being 200 acres in extent, he hoped to make L100,000 out of it. How he thought this a tidy sum. How he got no offers at this price, nor at L100, nor at L50. How an artist offered him L20 for half an acre to put up a red tin bungalow upon. How he lost his temper with the artist. How at last he left the whole thing alone and tried to forget ...

— Hills and the Sea • H. Belloc

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