[
US
/ˈtɪn/
]
[ UK /tˈɪn/ ]
[ UK /tˈɪn/ ]
VERB
- plate with tin
- prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
-
preserve in a can or tin
tinned foods are not very tasty
NOUN
- a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking
- airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- 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
- metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
How To Use tin In A Sentence
- A thin veil of fog had rolled in off the bay, obscuring his view and coating the area in a pale gray-white mist.
- What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
- A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
- Ask for an aged standing rib roast from the forequarter, trimmed and chined; bring to room temperature before roasting.
- Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
- If we have spent several class periods introducing conventions of reasoned evidence in argumentative writing, we usually look for such features in student papers.
- The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.
- She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
- In 1984, he started Oh Boy as an outlet for his songwriting.
- Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)