Noun: tin
Sample Sentences
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The roof was made of tin, which had been cut with tin snips.
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a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish
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Several tins of paint were needed to paint the house.
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empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.
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When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line. [1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:]
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muffin tin
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roasting tin
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baking tin
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And, indeed, after a tense round of rolling, shaping and filling delicate pastry dough, Rowan can’t even pull his overstuffed pies out of the tins without them bleeding and oozing fruit filling. [2023 October 28, Ashlie D. Stevens, ““Great British Bake Off” shocks viewers with a dramatic double-elimination round”, in Salon:]
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The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know [1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby:]
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When all your tin is gone and spent, / And you've not a mag for bread or rent [1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:]
Nouns inflected like tin
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną. See: Old English Nouns '
tin'.
Verbs referencing "tin"
German Nouns
Zinn.