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English

Chemical element
Sn
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Etymology

From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

Noun

tin (countable and uncountable, plural tins)

  1. (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
  2. (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, British, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
    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.
    • 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
      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.
  3. (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
    muffin tin
    roasting tin
    baking tin
    • 2023 October 28, “Next generation ‘clasico’: Bellingham faces 1st game against a Barcelona brimming with young talents”, in The Washington Times:
      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 April 30, “The Lions missed their chance, and the Eagles are smarter than everybody”, in The Washington Times:
      Jones was insanely productive last season. He is a clinical route-runner who can line up at any position and catches everything.
  4. (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
  5. (slang, dated, uncountable) money, especially silver money.
    • 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby:
      The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know
    • 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:
      When all your tin is gone and spent, / And you've not a mag for bread or rent
  6. (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.

Synonyms

  • (airtight container): can (especially US), tin can

Derived terms

Translations

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Adjective

tin (not comparable)

  1. Made of tin.
  2. Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
    • 1939, George Orwell, Coming up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz:
      n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tin (third-person singular simple present tins, present participle tinning, simple past and past participle tinned)

  1. (transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
  2. (transitive) To cover with tin.
  3. (transitive) To coat with solder
    1. To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
    2. 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

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Translations

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See also

References

  • (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Sn
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Next: antimoon (Sb)

Pronunciation

Noun

tin (uncountable)

  1. tin

Atong (India)

Etymology

Borrowed from English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

Noun

tin (Bengali script তিন)

  1. corrugated iron

References

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinlər)

  1. corner (the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point)
  2. intersection
    Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) çaharrah

Declension

    Declension of tin
singular plural
nominative tin
tinlər
definite accusative tini
tinləri
dative tinə
tinlərə
locative tində
tinlərdə
ablative tindən
tinlərdən
definite genitive tinin
tinlərin
    Possessive forms of tin
nominative
singular plural
mənim (my) tinim tinlərim
sənin (your) tinin tinlərin
onun (his/her/its) tini tinləri
bizim (our) tinimiz tinlərimiz
sizin (your) tininiz tinləriniz
onların (their) tini or tinləri tinləri
accusative
singular plural
mənim (my) tinimi tinlərimi
sənin (your) tinini tinlərini
onun (his/her/its) tinini tinlərini
bizim (our) tinimizi tinlərimizi
sizin (your) tininizi tinlərinizi
onların (their) tinini or tinlərini tinlərini
dative
singular plural
mənim (my) tinimə tinlərimə
sənin (your) tininə tinlərinə
onun (his/her/its) tininə tinlərinə
bizim (our) tinimizə tinlərimizə
sizin (your) tininizə tinlərinizə
onların (their) tininə or tinlərinə tinlərinə
locative
singular plural
mənim (my) tinimdə tinlərimdə
sənin (your) tinində tinlərində
onun (his/her/its) tinində tinlərində
bizim (our) tinimizdə tinlərimizdə
sizin (your) tininizdə tinlərinizdə
onların (their) tinində or tinlərində tinlərində
ablative
singular plural
mənim (my) tinimdən tinlərimdən
sənin (your) tinindən tinlərindən
onun (his/her/its) tinindən tinlərindən
bizim (our) tinimizdən tinlərimizdən
sizin (your) tininizdən tinlərinizdən
onların (their) tinindən or tinlərindən tinlərindən
genitive
singular plural
mənim (my) tinimin tinlərimin
sənin (your) tininin tinlərinin
onun (his/her/its) tininin tinlərinin
bizim (our) tinimizin tinlərimizin
sizin (your) tininizin tinlərinizin
onların (their) tininin or tinlərinin tinlərinin

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

Noun

tin m (collective)

  1. figs

References

  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 177

Danish

Noun

tin

  1. tin (Sn)

Dutch

Chemical element
Sn
Previous: indium (In)
Next: antimoon (Sb)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tin, ten, from Old Dutch *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

Noun

tin n (uncountable)

  1. tin (metal, metallic element)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: tin
  • Negerhollands: den

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, uncountable)

  1. tin (chemical element)

Declension

n3s singular
indefinite definite
nominative tin tinið
accusative tin tinið
dative tini tininum
genitive tins tinsins

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *teum. Doublet of ton (possessive determiner).

Pronoun

tin (feminine singular tina, masculine plural tins, feminine plural tines) (ORB, broad)

  1. yours (second-person singular possessor)

See also

References

  • tin in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle French tin, tind.

Noun

tin m (plural tins)

  1. a wooden support, often used on watercraft

Etymology 2

Interjection

tin

  1. (Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

Further reading

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English tin.

Pronunciation

Noun

tin

  1. tin
  2. can (an airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.)

Icelandic

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Chemical element
Sn
Previous: indín (In)
Next: antimon (Sb)

Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, no plural)

  1. tin (chemical element)

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From English tin, from Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Noun

tin

  1. tin, an airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.
    Synonyms: belek, kaleng
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

From Arabic تِين (tīn, fig).

Noun

tin

  1. fig, a fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.
Synonyms
  • ara (fig)

Further reading

Latvian

Verb

tin

  1. inflection of tīt:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. third-person plural present indicative
    3. second-person singular imperative
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of tīt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of tīt

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

Pronunciation

Noun

tin m (collective, singulative tina, plural tiniet)

  1. fig, figs: (several fruits; fig as a mass or taste)
  2. (humorous) buttocks
    Synonyms: natka (natika), tebqa tas-sorm
    Alternative form: tint

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

tin (subjective pronoun þou)

  1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (thy)

Pronoun

tin (subjective þou)

  1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (thine)

Etymology 2

Noun

tin

  1. Alternative form of tyn
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Etymology

From the root -TIN (to freeze), from Proto-Athabaskan *tən (ice, frost).

Cognates:

Pronunciation

Noun

tin

  1. ice, frost

Noone

Numeral

tin

  1. five

References

North Frisian

North Frisian cardinal numbers
 <  9 10 11  > 
    Cardinal : tin

Etymology

From Old Frisian tiān. Compare West Frisian tsien, Sylt North Frisian tiin.

Numeral

tin

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) ten

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tìn n (definite singular tìnet)

  1. (pre-1938) alternative form of tinn

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

Noun

tin n

  1. tin

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative tin
accusative tin
genitive tines
dative tine

Derived terms

Descendants

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Noun

tin n

  1. tin

Descendants

References

  • tin”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Tupi

Noun

tin

  1. Lamy spelling of

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese ter and Spanish tener and Kabuverdianu têm.

Verb

tin

  1. to have
  2. to possess
  3. there are

Picard

Pronoun

tin m

  1. your

Rohingya

Rohingya cardinal numbers
 <  2 3 4  > 
    Cardinal : tin

Etymology

From Sanskrit त्रि (tri, three).

Numeral

tin (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴞𐴕)

  1. three

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch tien.

Numeral

tin

  1. ten

Sumerian

Romanization

tin

  1. Romanization of 𒁷 (tin)

Swedish

Etymology

Syncopic form of tiden.

Noun

tin

  1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of tiden, definite singular of tid
    Han skriker hela tin!He's yelling all the time!

Usage notes

”Tiden” is only pronounced this way in the expression ”hela tiden”.

Anagrams

Tày

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *tiːnᴬ (foot).

Noun

tin (𬦿)

  1. foot
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Vietnamese tin.

Noun

tin ()

  1. news

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English tin.

Noun

tin

  1. tin, can

Derived terms

Turkish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰃𐰤 (tïn, spirit, breath).

Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinler)

  1. (spiritualism) soul, spirit(rare, re-introduced in 1934 during the TDK’s language reform)
    Synonyms: ruh, can
  2. (philosophy) The essence or entity which some metaphysicists claim that the universe was created by or originated from

Etymology 2

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish , from Arabic تِين (tīn).

Noun

tin (definite accusative , plural )

  1. (archaic) fig
    Synonym: incir
Declension
Inflection
Nominative tin
Definite accusative tini
Singular Plural
Nominative tin tinler
Definite accusative tini tinleri
Dative tine tinlere
Locative tinde tinlerde
Ablative tinden tinlerden
Genitive tinin tinlerin

Derived terms

Further reading

  • tin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (SV: tín).

Pronunciation

Verb

tin (, 𪝮, 𠒷)

  1. to believe; to trust; to have faith
    niềm tintrust
    trị bệnh bằng niềm tinfaith healing

Derived terms

Noun

tin (, 𪝮, 𠒷)

  1. news
    Synonym: tin tức
    tin nóngbreaking news
    tin buồnsad news, especially about someone who's passed away
    tin dữbad news
    tin mừng/vuigood news
    đạo Tin LànhProtestantism (literally, “religion of good news; religion of the gospel; evangelical religion”)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-, see also English thigh, Scottish Gaelic tòin.

Pronunciation

Noun

tin f (plural tinau)

  1. (vulgar, offensive) arse
    Synonym: pen-ôl

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of tin
radical soft nasal aspirate
tin din nhin thin

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yoruba

Pronunciation

Verb

tin

  1. to be thin; to be skinny
    Synonyms: tín-ín-rín, pẹ́lẹ́ńgẹ́, tẹ́ẹ́rẹ́
    Bọ̀bọ́ yẹn tin lẹ́sẹ̀.That guy's legs are thin.
    Apá mi tin díẹ̀.My arms are a bit skinny.