A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
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Metonymically Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.
The roof was made of tin, which had been cut with tin snips.
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Commonwealth, UK An airtight container, made of tin-coated steel (called tinplate or tin), (formerly) tin, aluminium, 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.
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empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.
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.1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
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A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
muffin tin
roasting tin
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baking tin
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 October 28, Ashlie D. Stevens, ““Great British Bake Off” shocks viewers with a dramatic double-elimination round”, in Salon:
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Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Squash The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
Etymology From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.
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Made of tin.
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Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
[I]n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab[ernacle] - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that.1939, George Orwell, Coming up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz: