Definitions for tin

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IPA: /tɪn/

Tin is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in tin (int).

Definitions for tin

noun

1. Chemistry. a low-melting, malleable, ductile metallic element nearly approaching silver in color and luster: used in plating and in making alloys, tinfoil, and soft solders. Symbol: Sn; atomic weight: 118.69; atomic number: 50; specific gravity: 7.31 at 20°C.
2. tin plate.
3. any shallow pan, especially one used in baking.
4. any pot, box, can, or other container or vessel made of tin or tin plate.
5. Squash. telltale (def 8).
6. Chiefly British. a hermetically sealed can containing food.
7. Slang. a small quantity of an illicit drug, especially from two to five grams of cocaine: usually sold in a small plastic bag, a glassine envelope, or often a small tin container.
8. British Slang. money.
9. taxpayer identification number.

adjective

1. made or consisting of tin or tin plate.
2. false; worthless; counterfeit:
3. indicating the tenth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.

verb (used with object)

1. Metallurgy. to cover or coat with tin. to coat with soft solder.
2. Chiefly British. to preserve or pack (especially food) in cans; can.
3. to cover (windows and doors in an abandoned or unoccupied building or apartment) with sheets of tin to prevent vandalism or occupancy by vagrants, squatters, etc.

Origin of tin

before 900; (noun) Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch, Old Norse tin, German Zinn; (v.) Middle English tinnen, derivative of the noun

Examples for tin

I played with clay gods and goddesses instead of tin soldiers.

I had to retrieve the tin from a special compacter before it was crushed, an exercise in timing.

Then he tossed his tin dishes away and they fell clattering on the rocks.

A tin cup and a cracked pitcher of spring water stood on the window-sill.

The raw materials— tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold—were dubbed “conflict minerals.”

One and all, they come shaking their tin cups at election time then run like the wind when a critical vote comes up.

“I have personally been to gold recyclers in Japan, tin smelters in Indonesia and fold refiners in Canada,” she said.

In China, for example, tungsten, tantalum, tin and gold are mined and ore is imported from other countries.

The cooking was done in a tin basin on the top of the hot stove.

On top of the barrel was a tin coffeepot, a china cup, and half a loaf of bread.