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tin

The kind of metal that cans are frequently made with. It is the chemical element Sn. A can; a metal thing with food in it.

tin

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 prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking plate with tin (= can) airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc (= can) preserve in a can or tin tinned foods are not very tasty (= canister) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

Synonyms tin synonyms

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Conjugation tin conjugation

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Examples tin examples

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Simple sentences

Can you tell silver and tin apart?
Do you know the difference between silver and tin?
Can you distinguish silver from tin?
But when the monkey came back, the tin cup was always empty.
He is a tin god.
The beggar rattled a few meager coins in his tin can.
In comparison to strawberries, pineapple also tastes good out of a tin.
Tom heard the sound of rain on the tin roof.
In his pockets there is no pipe, no tobacco, and no tabacco tin either.
This box is made of tin.
There are six fish inside the tin can.
Bronze is composed of copper and tin.
Bronze-ware is largely made from alloys of brass and tin.
The boy is playing with his tin soldiers.
The child dragged a chair over to the bench so it could reach the biscuit tin.
Tin is a soft metal.

Movie subtitles

Janelle described a clatter, not smashing glass - the sound of tin clanking on tin.
Miss Perkins, tin the roast beef.
Tin it yourself.
Hey, you can take off the tin hat.
And I'll sleep just once without tin straps in my spine.
I been waitin' a long time to catch up with that tin horn.
A man made out of tin!
Here, Tin Man, help me.
Step forward Tin Man!
What about the heart you promised Tin Man?
And I hereby decree that until what time if any, that I return the Scarecrow, by virtue of his highly superior brains shall rule in my stead assisted by the Tin Man, by virtue of his magnificent heart and the Lion, by virtue of his courage.
Goodbye, Tin Man.
Not them regular deputies, but them tin-seal men. The ones they got for guards.
Whatever it takes, you tin can!
Rin Tin Tin.
In the banks, vaults, socks, old tin cans buried in the ground.
Take their tin horns away.
Run along. Peddle your little tin-types.
And a tin of peas arrives from Paris.
If I'm suffocating. I pull the string. The tin falls. the others pull me out by the legs.
In a tin box I got in a safe-deposit vault.
Yeah. Did you get an estimate on the tin factory at Peepeck?
I fought Canadian Tin singlehanded and left them yelling for help!
Cussed, snorting, tin teakettles. Scaring my horses.
I'd open a tin of foie gras.
I'll take care of that too. I been waitin' a long time to catch up with that tin horn.
It means you're the daughter of the gentleman who made millions putting things into tin cans that people like me take out of tin cans.
It's in that tin.
I been waitin' a long time to catch up with that tin horn. Now go on home. Go on.
He'll twist that tin star around your heart.
All we need is a grind organ and a tin cup.
Lady's gonna feed us. Get yourself a tin can.
Not them regular deputies, but them tin-seal men.
What is this, tin?

News and current affairs

For example, the authors of The Limits to Growth predicted that before 2013, the world would have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.
The environmentalists put their money on chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten, and picked a time frame of 10 years.
Some conductors, not wanting to carry a tin cup as they wave their batons, have rejected important posts in the US for this reason, feeling that it would interfere with their art.
The money is kept in a tin at home, and is easily spent when a neighbor is in difficulty, or the ne'er-do-well cousin comes calling.
Its copper, cobalt, tin, and coltan (columbite-tantalite) are essential for many industries.
Tin political ears deserve defeat.
The world may have moved on, chastened by the realization that interveners, even when intervening in the name of human rights, can be as barbaric as tin pot dictators.
Bolivia has enough experience of its own. The mountains of silver in Potosi and tin in Oruro are gone, with no traces of development or well-being left behind.
MOGADISHU - One of my earliest childhood memories is of swimming in a small gully near my grandmother's home in Yaaq Bari Wayne, a dusty collection of tin-roofed adobe buildings huddled together in the plains of southern Somalia's Bay region.