adj
Meaning 1
Made of tin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
tin
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adj
Meaning 2
Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Made of aluminum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Meaning 4
A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 5
Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, metonymically, uncountable
Examples
- The roof was made of tin, which had been cut with tin snips.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tinplate
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
An airtight container, made of tin-coated steel (called tinplate or tin), (formerly) tin, aluminium, or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Commonwealth, UK, countable
Examples
- a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish
- Several tins of paint were needed to paint the house.
- empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: can
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Examples
- muffin tin
- roasting tin
- baking tin
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, squash
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
money, especially silver money.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated, slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
computer hardware.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
Initialism of taxpayer identification number.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Qualifier: various countries
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: number, identifier
verb
Meaning 12
To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 13
To cover with tin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
Meaning 14
To coat with solder
To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 15
To coat with solder
To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 16
airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: can, tin can
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: container
Narrower terms: beer can, caddy, tea caddy, cannikin, coffee can, milk can, oilcan, soda can
noun
Meaning 17
metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: canister, cannister
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: container
noun
Meaning 18
a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vessel
noun
Meaning 19
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Sn, atomic number 50
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
verb
Meaning 20
prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plate
verb
Meaning 21
preserve in a can or tin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- tinned foods are not very tasty
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: can, put up
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: preserve, keep
verb
Meaning 22
plate with tin
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plate
History
Etymology
From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
Across languages
Translations
343 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: алавя́ны (alavjány) — made of tin
- Belarusian: валавя́ны (valavjány) — made of tin
- Belarusian: цы́навы (cýnavy) — made of tin
- Breton: staen — made of tin
- Bulgarian: калае́н (kalaén) — made of tin
- Bulgarian: тенеки́ен (tenekíen) — made of tin
- Czech: cínový — made of tin
- Dutch: tinnen — made of tin
- Finnish: tinainen — made of tin
- Finnish: peltinen — made of tin
- French: d'étain — made of tin
- French: en étain — made of tin
- German: Zinn- — made of tin
- German: zinnen — made of tin
- Hungarian: ón- — made of tin
- Hungarian: cin- — made of tin
- Hungarian: bádog- — made of tin
- Interlingua: de latta — made of tin
- Interlingua: de stanno — made of tin
- Italian: di stagno — made of tin
- Macedonian: калаен (kalaen) — made of tin
- Macedonian: тенекиен (tenekien) — made of tin
- Polish: cynowy — made of tin
- Portuguese: de lata — made of tin
- Portuguese: de estanho — made of tin
- Romanian: de cositor — made of tin
- Romanian: din cositor — made of tin
- Russian: оловя́нный (olovjánnyj) — made of tin
- Serbo-Croatian: лѝмен — made of tin
- Serbo-Croatian: lìmen — made of tin
- Slovak: cínový — made of tin
- Slovene: kositrni — made of tin
- Ukrainian: олов'я́ний (olovʺjányj) — made of tin
- Ukrainian: цино́вий (cynóvyj) — made of tin
- Unami: pëpuhwèsi — made of tin
- Belarusian: бляшаны (bljašany) — made of galvanized iron
- Russian: жестяной (žestjanoj) — made of galvanized iron
- Afrikaans: tin — element
- Albanian: kallaj — element
- Southern Altai: калай (kalay) — element
- Southern Altai: телеҥир (teleŋir) — element
- Amharic: ቆርቆሮ (ḳorḳoro) — element
- Arabic: قَصْدِير m or قِصْدِير (qaṣdīr) — element
- Arabic: صفيح (ṣafīḥ) — element
- Arabic: قَصْدير (gaṣdīr) — element
- Arabic: قزدير (qazdīr) — element
- Classical Mandaic: ࡀࡍࡊࡀ (anka) — element
- Aramaic: ܐܵܢܟ݂ܵܐ (ʾānəḵāʾ) — element
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אָנְכָא (ʾānəḵāʾ) — element
- Armenian: անագ (anag) — element
- Assamese: ৰাং (raṅ) — element
- Asturian: estañu — element
- Avar: гъалай (ğalaj) — element
- Azerbaijani: qalay — element
- Basque: eztainua — element
- Belarusian: во́лава (vólava) — element
- Belarusian: цына (cyna) — element
- Bengali: টিন (ṭin) — element
- Breton: staen — element
- Bulgarian: кала́й (kaláj) — element
- Burmese: သံဖြူ (samhpru) — element
- Catalan: estany — element
- Chinese Mandarin: 錫 /锡 (xí) — element
- Coptic: ⲃⲁⲥⲛϭ (basnč) — element
- Coptic: ⲑⲣⲁⲛ (thran) — element
- Cornish: sten — element
- Czech: cín — element
- Danish: tin — element
- Dargwa: къалай (ɢalaj) — element
- Dutch: tin — element
- Esperanto: stano — element
- Estonian: tina — element
- Faroese: tin — element
- Finnish: tina — element
- French: étain — element
- West-Frisian: tin — element
- Friulian: stagn — element
- Galician: estano — element
- Galician: estaño — element
- Georgian: კალა (ḳala) — element
- German: Zinn — element
- Greek: κασσίτερος (kassíteros) — element
- Ancient Greek: κασσίτερος (kassíteros) — element
- Hebrew: בְּדִיל (bdíl) — element
- Hindi: त्रपु (trapu) — element
- Hungarian: ón — element
- Hungarian: cin — element
- Hungarian: bádog — element
- Iban: bangkang — element
- Iban: bangkoh — element
- Icelandic: tin — element
- Ido: stano — element
- Indonesian: timah — element
- Ingrian: tina — element
- Interlingua: stanno — element
- Irish: stán — element
- Italian: stagno — element
- Japanese: 錫 (suzu) — element
- Japanese: スズ (suzu) — element
- Javanese: ꦠꦶꦩꦃ (timah) — element
- Kannada: ತವರ (tavara) — element
- Kashubian: cëna — element
- Kazakh: қалайы (qalaiy) — element
- Khmer: សំណប៉ាហាំង (sɑmnɑɑ paahang) — element
- Khmer: ប៉ាហាំង (paahang) — element
- Korean: 주석 (juseok) — element
- Korean: 동납철 (dongnapcheol) — element
- Korean: 석 (seok) — element
- Kyrgyz: калай (kalay) — element
- Lao: ຊືນ (sư̄n) — element
- Lao: ດີບຸກ (dī buk) — element
- Latin: stannum — element
- Latvian: alva — element
- Lezgi: къеле (q̄ele) — element
- Lithuanian: alavas — element
- Low German: Tinn — element
- Luxembourgish: Zënn — element
- Macedonian: калај (kalaj) — element
- Malay: stanum — element
- Malay: timah — element
- Malayalam: വെളുത്തീയം (veḷuttīyaṁ) — element
- Malayalam: തകരം (takaraṁ) — element
- Maltese: landa — element
- Manchu: ᡨᠣᡥᠣᠯᠣᠨ (toholon) — element
- Northern Mansi: а̄нах (ānah) — element
- Manx: stainney — element
- Eastern Mari: вулно (vulno) — element
- Central Melanau: timah — element
- Mongolian: тугалга (tugalga) — element
- Nahuatl: amochitl — element
- Nanai: тохолгон (toholgon) — element
- Navajo: béésh dildǫʼí — element
- Norwegian: tinn — element
- Occitan: estanh — element
- Old English: tin — element
- Old Tupi: itaîyka — element
- Oromo: qorqorroo — element
- Persian: قلع (qal') — element
- Persian: ارزیز (arziz) — element
- Plautdietsch: Blajch — element
- Polish: cyna — element
- Portuguese: estanho — element
- Rohingya: zermóuni — element
- Romanian: staniu — element
- Romanian: cositor — element
- Russian: о́лово (ólovo) — element
- Russian: ста́ннум (stánnum) — element
- Santali: ᱴᱤᱬ (ṭiṇ) — element
- Saurashtra: ꢡꣃ (tau) — element
- Scottish Gaelic: staoin — element
- Serbo-Croatian: калај — element
- Serbo-Croatian: kalaj — element
- Serbo-Croatian: kositar — element
- Sikkimese: ལྕགས་དཀར (lcags dkar) — element
- Sikkimese: ལྕགས་ཀྲིན (lcags krin) — element
- Slovak: cín — element
- Slovene: kositer — element
- Slovene: cin — element
- Lower Sorbian: cen — element
- Upper Sorbian: cyn — element
- Spanish: estaño — element
- Sumerian: 𒀭𒈾 (anna) — element
- Sundanese: ᮒᮤᮙᮂ (timah) — element
- Swedish: tenn — element
- Tagalog: tinggaputi — element
- Tajik: қалъ (qal') — element
- Tamil: தகரம் (takaram) — element
- Tatar: аккургаш (aqqurğaş) — element
- Ternate: beleki — element
- Thai: ดีบุก (dii-bùk) — element
- Tiwi: kilupi — element
- Tok Pisin: tin — element
- Turkish: kalay — element
- Ottoman Turkish: قالای (kalay) — element
- Turkmen: galaýy — element
- Ukrainian: о́лово (ólovo) — element
- Unami: pëpuhwès — element
- Urdu: قَلْع (qal') — element
- Uyghur: قەلەي (qeley) — element
- Uzbek: qalay — element
- Uzbek: калай (kalay) — element
- Vietnamese: thiếc — element
- Vilamovian: cejn — element
- Welsh: tun — element
- Yiddish: בלעך (blekh) — element
- Yiddish: צין (tsin) — element
- Zhuang: sik — element
- Afrikaans: blikkie — airtight container
- Arabic: صَفِيحَة (ṣafīḥa) — airtight container
- Arabic: علبة (ʕulbe) — airtight container
- Arabic: تنكة (tánake) — airtight container
- Belarusian: бляша́нка (bljašánka) — airtight container
- Belarusian: кансе́рва (kansjérva) — airtight container
- Bengali: টিন (ṭin) — airtight container
- Bulgarian: консе́рва (konsérva) — airtight container
- Bulgarian: тенекия (tenekija) — airtight container
- Catalan: llauna — airtight container
- Chinese Mandarin: 罐頭 /罐头 (guàntou, guàntóu) — airtight container
- Czech: plechovka — airtight container
- Czech: konzerva — airtight container
- Danish: konservesdåse — airtight container
- Dutch: blik — airtight container
- Dutch: conservenblik — airtight container
- Finnish: säilyketölkki — airtight container
- Finnish: säilykepurkki — airtight container
- French: conserve — airtight container
- French: boîte de conserve — airtight container
- Galician: lata — airtight container
- Galician: canado — airtight container
- German: Büchse — airtight container
- German: Konservenbüchse — airtight container
- German: Blechbüchse — airtight container
- German: Dose — airtight container
- German: Konservendose — airtight container
- Greek: κονσέρβα (konsérva) — airtight container
- Hindi: टिन (ṭin) — airtight container
- Hungarian: konzerv — airtight container
- Hungarian: konzervdoboz — airtight container
- Hungarian: bádogdoboz — airtight container
- Hungarian: fémdoboz — airtight container
- Hungarian: doboz — airtight container
- Indonesian: kaleng — airtight container
- Italian: lattina — airtight container
- Italian: barattolo — airtight container
- Japanese: 罐詰 (kanzume) — airtight container
- Japanese: 缶 (kan) — airtight container
- Khmer: កំប៉ុង (kɑmpong) — airtight container
- Khmer: កំប៉ុងសំណប៉ាហាំង (kɑmpoŋ sɑmnɑɑ paahaŋ) — airtight container
- Kikuyu: mũkebe — airtight container
- Korean: 깡통 (kkangtong) — airtight container
- Lao: ກະປ໋ອງ (ka pǭng) — airtight container
- Latvian: konservu kārba — airtight container
- Macedonian: лименка (limenka) — airtight container
- Macedonian: конзе́рва (konzérva) — airtight container
- Malay: tin — airtight container
- Malay: kupi — airtight container
- Malay: kaleng — airtight container
- Meru: mkebe — airtight container
- Norman: tinne — airtight container
- Persian: حلب (halab) — airtight container
- Persian: قوطی (quti) — airtight container
- Persian: پیت (pit) — airtight container
- Polish: puszka — airtight container
- Polish: konserwa — airtight container
- Portuguese: lata — airtight container
- Russian: жестя́нка (žestjánka) — airtight container
- Russian: консе́рвная ба́нка (konsérvnaja bánka) — airtight container
- Russian: консе́рва (konsérva) — airtight container
- Scottish Gaelic: cana — airtight container
- Scottish Gaelic: canastair — airtight container
- Serbo-Croatian: ліменка — airtight container
- Serbo-Croatian: конзерва — airtight container
- Serbo-Croatian: limenka — airtight container
- Serbo-Croatian: konzerva — airtight container
- Slovak: plechovka — airtight container
- Slovene: pločevinka — airtight container
- Spanish: lata — airtight container
- Swahili: mkebe — airtight container
- Swedish: konserv — airtight container
- Swedish: konservburk — airtight container
- Tagalog: lata — airtight container
- Thai: กระป๋อง (grà-bpɔ̌ng) — airtight container
- Thai: ปี๊บ (bpíip) — airtight container
- Tok Pisin: tin — airtight container
- Ottoman Turkish: تنكه (teneke) — airtight container
- Ukrainian: бляша́нка (bljašánka) — airtight container
- Ukrainian: консе́рва (konsérva) — airtight container
- Vietnamese: hộp — airtight container
- Belarusian: бля́ха (bljáxa) — metal pan
- Bulgarian: тига́н (tigán) — metal pan
- Czech: plech — metal pan
- Dutch: bakvorm — metal pan
- Dutch: taartvorm — metal pan
- Finnish: vuoka — metal pan
- French: moule — metal pan
- French: gamelle — metal pan
- Galician: tixola — metal pan
- Galician: pandoiro — metal pan
- Galician: tique — metal pan
- German: Backform — metal pan
- German: Kastenform — metal pan
- German: Kuchenform — metal pan
- Greek: ταψί (tapsí) — metal pan
- Hungarian: tepsi — metal pan
- Italian: gamella — metal pan
- Italian: teglia — metal pan
- Polish: blacha — metal pan
- Portuguese: lata — metal pan
- Portuguese: forma — metal pan
- Portuguese: tarteira — metal pan
- Russian: жесть (žestʹ) — metal pan
- Slovak: plech — metal pan
- Ukrainian: жерсть (žerstʹ) — metal pan
- Ukrainian: бля́ха (bljáxa) — metal pan
- Armenian: պահածոյացնել (pahacoyacʻnel) — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Bulgarian: консерви́рам (konservíram) — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Dutch: inblikken — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Dutch: conserveren — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Finnish: purkittaa — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Finnish: tölkittää — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- French: mettre en conserve — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- French: conserver — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- German: eindosen — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- German: einmachen — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Greek: κονσερβοποιώ (konservopoió) — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Hungarian: konzervál — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Hungarian: befőz — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Hungarian: eltesz — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Macedonian: конзерви́ра (konzervíra) — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Portuguese: enlatar — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Russian: консерви́ровать (konservírovatʹ) — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Spanish: enlatar — to place into a tin in order to preserve
- Bulgarian: калайди́свам (kalajdísvam) — to cover with tin
- Bulgarian: калайдисам (kalajdisam) — to cover with tin
- Dutch: vertinnen — to cover with tin
- Finnish: tinata — to cover with tin
- French: étamer — to cover with tin
- German: verzinnen — to cover with tin
- Greek: γανώνω (ganóno) — to cover with tin
- Hungarian: ónoz — to cover with tin
- Hungarian: bádoggal bevon — to cover with tin
- Macedonian: калаисува (kalaisuva) — to cover with tin
- Polish: bielić — to cover with tin
- Polish: cynować — to cover with tin
- Portuguese: estanhar — to cover with tin
- Romanian: cositori — to cover with tin
- Russian: луди́ть (ludítʹ) — to cover with tin
- Russian: полуди́ть (poludítʹ) — to cover with tin
- Spanish: estañar — to cover with tin
- Turkish: kalaylamak — to cover with tin
- Ottoman Turkish: قالایلامق (kalaylamak) — to cover with tin
- Bulgarian: калайди́свам (kalajdísvam) — to coat with solder
- Bulgarian: калайдисам (kalajdisam) — to coat with solder
- Dutch: vertinnen — to coat with solder
- Finnish: tinata — to coat with solder
- French: étamer — to coat with solder
- German: vorverzinnen — to coat with solder
- Hungarian: forrasztóónnal bevon — to coat with solder
- Hungarian: forrasszal bevon — to coat with solder
- Hungarian: forraszt — to coat with solder
- Macedonian: залемува (zalemuva) — to coat with solder
- Macedonian: леми (lemi) — to coat with solder
- Spanish: estañar — to coat with solder