tin

Definition of tin in English English dictionary: To cover with tin; The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball; A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn; To coat with solder in preparation for soldering; To place into a tin in order to preserve; Made of tin; A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc
roasting tin.; An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food; To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil; {n} a whitish gray metal, very malleable and flexible; {f} preserve, can; plate with tin; Triangulated Irregular Network; airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc; Atomic weight 117; = 1st Ammonite, 2; Element number 50, symbol Sn, a metal (Latin, stannum) A silver white soft ductile metal occasionaly found in its native state Tin is one of the earliset known metals and was used both in its pure form as well as an alloying ingrediant by the ancients Pure tin was used by the Ancient Greeks as parts of light tight fitting armor such as shin guards (Homer's, Illiad Tin is the secondary metal in the alloy bronze and the primary metal in solder along with lead (Pb) Tin is corrosion resistant and has a very low melting point as well as an affinity for adhearing to other metals, thus tin plate, tin cans, babbit and solder Average density of tin, 7 298 g/cm3, 2637 lbs/cuin, 455 62 lbs/cuft Los Alamos National Laboratory periodic table entry tin; plate with tin; The 9 digit number assigned by the IRS or Social Security Administration to identify an individual (Social Security number) or inanimate entities such as corporations and trusts; Their; a USEnet news reader for UNIX that allows users to read and post to the thousands of Internet newsgroups worldwide; metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour; It is a soft, silvery white metal with a bluish tinge, employed since antiquity in the traditional form of bronze, its alloy with copper. It occurs chiefly as the dioxide (stannic oxide, SnO2) in cassiterite. Since it is nontoxic, ductile, malleable, and easily worked, it is used to plate steel cans ("tin cans") for use as food containers and to coat and plate other items. Pure tin is too weak to be used alone, but its many alloys include soft solder, pewter, bronze, and low-temperature casting alloys. It has valence 2 or 4 in compounds, including stannous chloride (used in tin galvanizing and manufacturing polymers and dyes), stannous oxide (used to make tin salts for chemical reagents and plating), stannous fluoride (used as an anticavity ingredient in toothpastes), stannic chloride (a stabilizer for perfumes and a source of other tin salts), and stannic oxide (a catalyst and a polishing powder for steel). Tin bonds with carbon to form organotin compounds, used to stabilize PVC and in biocides and fungicides; It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys; When present in steel it is an undesirable impurity which gives rise to temper brittleness When used as a coating on steel, it has a good resistance to corrosion for many applications; An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated; A tin is a metal container which is filled with food and sealed in order to preserve the food for long periods of time. She popped out to buy a tin of soup. A tin of food is the amount of food contained in a tin. He had survived by eating a small tin of fruit every day; 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; {s} of tin, made from tin, consisting of tin; Tax Identification Number; Situated between the board and the floor covering the full width of the court and constructed in such a manner as to make a distinctive noise when struck by the ball; A tin is a metal container with a lid in which things such as biscuits, cakes, or tobacco can be kept. Store the cookies in an airtight tin A tin of something is the amount contained in a tin. They emptied out the remains of the tin of paint and smeared it on the inside of the van; Money A depreciating synonym for silver, called by alchemists “Jupiter ”; An ion that causes haze; Chemical symbol Sn Soft, silvery-white metal with high malleability and ductility, but little tensile strength One of the earliest metals known; because of its hardening effects on copper, used to make bronze for fabrication of construction and hunting tools and war weapons as early as 3500 B C With a melting point of 449-degrees F and a boiling point of 4384-degrees F, tin has the longest molten-state range of any common metal; thus, its principal use as a steel coating and constituent in alloys to make bronze, pewter, die-casting alloys, and specialty titanium alloys Used in biocides to control insect infestation, and in solders for joining pipes or electrical conductors; Triangulated Irregular Network A series of triangles constructed using elevation data points taken from coverages These triangles are used for surface representation and display; Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate; Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic; Triangulated irregular network A surface representation derived from irregularly spaced sample points and breakline features The tin data set includes topological relationships between points and their neighboring triangles Each sample point has an x,y coordinate and a surface, or z-value These points are connected by edges to form a set of non-overlapping triangles used to represent the surface Tins are also called irregular triangular mesh or irregular triangular surface model; {i} type of silvery metallic element which is easily shaped; (British) can, aluminum container; news reading program; Heb bedil (Num 31: 22; Ezek 22: 18, 20), a metal well known in ancient times It is the general opinion that the Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon obtained their supplies of tin from the British Isles In Ezek 27: 12 it is said to have been brought from Tarshish, which was probably a commercial emporium supplied with commodities from other places In Isa 1: 25 the word so rendered is generally understood of lead, the alloy with which the silver had become mixed (ver 22) The fire of the Babylonish Captivity would be the means of purging out the idolatrous alloy that had corrupted the people; An explosive consisting of sodium nitrate, charcoal, sulphur, and petroleum; Silvery-white metal, harder and less dense than lead Its principal ore is cassiterite Tailings pond: Pool where worthless waste rock and sludge from mining activities are stored Talc: Soft greyish, green or blue mineral composed of magnesium, silicon, oxygen and hydrogen Tectonics: Branch of geology that studies the architecture and deformations of the geological regions on the surface of a planet Tellurium: Rare silvery-white chemical element close to the metals (it is a non-metal) Thorium: Radioactive grey metal Titanium: Very hard white metal extracted mainly from ilmenite iron ore Topography: General configuration of a region; Tin is a soft silvery-white metal. a factory that turns scrap metal into tin cans. a tin-roofed hut; TR>; Money; Symbol Sn (Stannum); preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty"; A baking tin is a metal container used for baking things such as cakes and bread in an oven. Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 45 minutes. made of tin. Metallic chemical element, chemical symbol Sn, atomic number; Triangluated Irregular Network - A spatial data structure, generated by the TESSELLATION of space into irregular, exclusive triangles; Transaction Identification Number; A silvery-white malleable metal mainly extracted from the mineral cassiterite and used in alloys such as bronze Melting point: 232° C Mined in Cornwall, Spain and central Europe; prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface; {i} stannum
Tin Man: The Tin Woodsman, a metallic character in the fictional Land of Oz who travels with Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion to the Emerald City in search of a heart
Tin Pan Alley: The songwriting and publishing industry
Tin Pan Alley: District in New York City centered on 28th Street during the period roughly from 1885 to the 1920's where thousands of popular songs were commercially written
tin can: a container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or aluminum
tin can: a destroyer
tin cans: plural form of tin can
tin cries: plural form of tin cry
tin cry: The sound heard when a bar of tin is bent
tin dog: Contraction of tinned dog (any unappetizing tinned meat)
Tin Dog, Damper and Dust — title of autobiography by shearer Don Munday.
tin dog: Literally, a dog figurine or model made out of metal
tin dog: A noise-making device used by a farmer to get sheep or cattle moving. Almost any rough tin container with stones or containers within each other on a wire can be used. Some rattle-like devices are made commercially
2005: I was with the cattle on my own at that stage, and to get them going, I inserted a few stones in the quart pot and used that as a tin dog. It got the cattle moving. — stockman Bruce Simpson on the Australian Broadcasting Commission Landline program, 30 October 2005.
tin ear: Insensitivity to and inability to appreciate the elements of performed music or the rhythm, elegance, or nuances of language
Despite their careless scholarship and a less tangible quality that some would call a tin ear for poetry, Morris Halle and S. J. Keyser, as metrists, have the considerable virtue of explicitness.
tin god: An individual that abuses or exceeds his authority over others, frequently in petty ways; for example a low-level manager in situational comedies and other entertainment
tin knocker: A sheet metal worker, especially one who works with HVAC ductwork
We can't hang drywall in here until the tin knockers are done.
tin man: A toy soldier or other human figure made from tin
tin men: plural form of tin man
tin opener: a can opener
tin openers: plural form of tin opener
tin plate: A thin sheet of steel coated with tin to prevent rusting; used to make cans etc
tin plates: plural form of tin plate
tin pyrites: the mineral stannite
tin sandwich: Term for a simple harmonica
The reason that the harmonica sometimes is called a tin sandwich is that you hold it just like a sandwich.
tin sandwiches: plural form of tin sandwich
tin soldier: A toy soldier made out of tin
tin soldiers: plural form of tin soldier
tin whistle: A small, high pitched whistle that is blown from the end like a flute and is made of metal
tin whistles: plural form of tin whistle
tin-foil hat: A piece of headgear made from one or more sheets of tin foil, aluminium foil, or other similar material, the hats worn in the belief that they act to shield the brain from such influences as electromagnetic fields, or against mind control and/or mind reading
tin-foil hats: plural form of tin-foil hat
tin-plate: To coat (something, especially steel sheet) with tin, either by dipping or electroplating
tin-plating: Present participle of tin-plate
tin-plating: The process of applying a protective layer of tin, especially to steel sheet
tin-pot: Inferior; shoddy
tin-pot dictator: An autocratic ruler with little political credibility, but with self-delusions of grandeur
tin-pot dictators: plural form of tin-pot dictator
tin lid: Tin lid is London Cockney rhyming slang for a Jew (Yid)
tin snip: Tin snips are tools used to cut thin sheet metal. They use the same principles as common scissors, but are able to handle thicker and harder material. There are three different types of tin snips; straight cutting, left cutting, and right cutting. Straight cutting in a straight line, left cutting snips (usually red) will cut in a curve to the left, and right cutting snips (usually green) will cut in a curve to the right
Tin Man: a character from the book and film The The Wizard of Oz. He is made of metal and does not have a heart, but in the story goes to see the Wizard of Oz to ask him to give him a heart
Tin Pan Alley: the people who produce popular music and their way of life, especially in the US. Genre of U.S. popular music that arose in New York in the late 19th century. The name was coined by the songwriter Monroe Rosenfeld as the byname of the street on which the industry was based 28th Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway in the early 20th century, around Broadway and 32nd Street in the 1920s, and ultimately on Broadway between 42nd and 50th Streets. "Tin pan" referred to the sound of pianos furiously pounded by "song pluggers" demonstrating tunes to publishers. The genre comprised the commercial music of writers of ballads, dance music, and vaudeville songs, and its name eventually became synonymous with U.S. popular music. Its demise resulted from the rise of film, audio recording, radio, and TV, which created a demand for more and different kinds of music, and the growth of commercial songwriting centres in cities such as Hollywood and Nashville
tin can: can (made of tin) for preserved food; (US Navy slang) a destroyer
tin can: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc
tin can: informal term for a destroyer
tin ear: An insensitivity to music or to sounds of a given kind: a writer with a tin ear for dialogue
tin ear: insensitivity to the appropriateness or subtlety of language; "he has a tin ear for dialogue
tin foil: foil made of aluminum
tin foil: foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead
tin foil: strong paper made of aluminum with a silver color used in the kitchen
tin hat: metal cap, cap made from tin
tin hut: cottage made from metal
tin opener: A tin opener is a tool that is used for opening tins of food
tin opener: a device for cutting cans open
tin opener: can opener, instrument for opening canned goods
tin pan alley: a city district (originally in New York) where composers and publishers of popular music do business
tin parachute: An employment agreement that guarantees a severance payment to employees who are dismissed after a company has had a change in ownership
tin pest: the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery gray tin a very cold temperatures
tin plate: thin sheet metal (iron or steel) coated with tin to prevent rusting; used especially for cans and pots
tin plate: steel or sheet iron covered with thin coating of tin
tin plate: Thin sheet iron or steel coated with tin to prevent rusting, used especially to make cans and pots
tin whistle: A tin whistle is a simple musical instrument in the shape of a metal pipe with holes. Tin whistles make a high sound and are often used in folk music, for example Irish music. a musical instrument like a small pipe with six holes, that you play by blowing
tin whistle: small inexpensive wind instrument similar to a recorder, fipple flute
tin-pot: a tin-pot person, organization etc is not very important, although they think that they are - used to show disapproval
tin-pot: {s} (Informal) inferior; small-time; inferior in quality, cheap, two-bit; paltry
butter of tin: tin tetrachloride pentahydrate
like a cat on a hot tin roof: Jumpy, nervous
pre-tin: coat a metal with solder or tin alloy prior to soldering or brazing it
tinned: Coated, or plated with tin
tinned: Simple past tense and past participle of tin
what it says on the tin: Exactly what is described or what one would expect from the name
does exactly what it says on the tin: presents erotic art.
Tin foil: tf
baking tin: (British) pan used for baking
be like a cat on a hot tin roof: be restless; be agitated and nervous and unable to remain still
block tin: See under Tin
cake tin: A cake tin is a metal container that you bake a cake in
galvanized tin: tin covered with a thin layer of zinc
like a cat on a hot tin roof: restless; agitated and nervous and unable to remain still
mess tin: soldier's eating utensils
the Tin Soldier: children's stories in which a tin soldier toy was the main character
tinned: Covered, or plated, with tin; as, a tinned roof; tinned iron
tinned: Tinned food is food that has been preserved by being sealed in a tin. tinned tomatoes. tinned salmon. tinned food is food that is sold in small metal containers which can be kept for a long time before they are opened American Equivalent: canned
tinned: past of tin
tinned: sealed in a can or jar
tinned: Packed in a tin can; canned
tinned: Packed in tin cases; canned; as, tinned meats
tinning: The process of coating metallic surfaces with a thin layer of solder
tinning: present participle of tin
tinning: covering the soldering iron tip or the tip of a wire with solder
tinning: Coating of a metal surface with tin or solder alloy to improve or maintain solderability, or to aid a later soldering process
tinning: The covering or lining of tin thus put on
tinning: the application of a thin layer of soft solder to the ends of wires before soldering them; "careful tinning of the ends of wires results in a better joint when you solder them"
tinning: Dipping the stripped leads of a conductor into solder to a specified length
tinning: the process of adding a thin layer of solder to the tip of a soldering iron
tinning: Applying a thin coating of solder to something
tinning: The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like
tinning: the application of a protective layer of tin
tinning: the application of a protective layer of tin the application of a thin layer of soft solder to the ends of wires before soldering them; "careful tinning of the ends of wires results in a better joint when you solder them
tins: third-person singular of tin
tins: plural of tin
undulated tin plate: tin sheet that is bent into a corrugated or wavy shape

Turkish - English

Definition of tin in Turkish English dictionary: spirit; nous; spirit; soul; phil. nous; spirit, soul; psyche; nous; psych. anima; psych. psyche; psyche; soul
tin tin: (moving) very quietly and cautiously (moving) on tiptoe

tin

Turkish pronunciation

tîn

Synonyms

can, tin can

Pronunciation

/ˈtən/ /ˈtɪn/

Etymology

() From Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *dīno, from Proto-Indo-European dei- 'to shine'; compare Sanskrit dídeti 'to shine, be bright', Ancient Greek déato 'seemed'.