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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?n, IPA^(key): /t?n/, [t??n]
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophones: thin (with th-stopping), ten (with pin-pen merger)

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, Britain, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.

3. (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.

4. (countable, squash (sport)) 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.

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6. (slang, uncountable) Computer hardware.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

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.

     [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.

Synonyms

• tinnen (obsolete)

Derived terms

• tin tabernacle
• tin bath

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

Derived terms

• tinned dog

Coordinate terms

• bronze
• (to preserve): can, bottle
• (to prepare for soldering): wet, flux

Translations

See also

References

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

Anagrams

• INT, ITN, i'n't, in't, int, int., nit

Afrikaans

Noun

tin (uncountable)

1. tin

Atong (India)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin (Bengali script ???)

1. corrugated iron

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Azerbaijani

Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinl?r)

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

   Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) çaharrah

Declension

Danish

Noun

tin

1. tin (Sn)

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?n/
• Hyphenation: tin
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

tin n (uncountable)

1. tin (metal, metallic element)

Derived terms

• soldeertin
• tinnen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tin

Faroese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, uncountable)

1. tin (chemical element)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/

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

• “tin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???n/
• Rhymes: -??n

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, no plural)

1. tin (chemical element)

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?n]
• Hyphenation: tin

Etymology 1

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

Noun

tin (first-person possessive tinku, second-person possessive tinmu, third-person possessive tinnya)

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

   Synonyms: belek, kaleng

Alternative forms

• tim

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????? (t?n, “fig”).

Noun

tin (first-person possessive tinku, second-person possessive tinmu, third-person possessive tinnya)

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

Further reading

• “tin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Latvian

Verb

tin

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of t?t
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of t?t
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of t?t
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of t?t
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of t?t
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of t?t

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (t?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ti?n/

Noun

tin m (collective, singulative tina, plural tiniet)

1. fig, figs: (several fruits; fig as a mass or taste)

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

From Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tin?.

Alternative forms

• tyn, tynne, tyne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin (uncountable)

1. tin (metal)

Descendants

• English: tin
• Scots: tn

References

• “tin, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

Navajo

Etymology

From the root -TIN (“to freeze”), from Proto-Athabaskan *t?n (“ice, frost”).

Cognates:

• Apachean: Western Apache t?h, Chiricahua t?’?, Lipan k?h
• Others: Hupa -ti?, Galice t??n, Chilcotin t??n, Slavey t??, -téné’, Dogrib t??, Dene S??iné t??n, Sarcee nistiní, Chipewyan tvn, Beaver istv?ni, Carrier tvn, Sekani t??n, Hän tán, Ahtna ten, Dena’ina t?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tx??n]

Noun

tin

1. ice, frost

Noone

Numeral

tin

1. five

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian ti?n. Compare West Frisian tsien, Sylt North Frisian tiin.

Numeral

tin

1. (Föhr-Amrum) ten

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tìn n (definite singular tìnet)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by tinn

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tin?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin n

1. tin

Declension

Derived terms

• tinen

Descendants

• Middle English: tin
  • English: tin

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tin?.

Noun

tin n

1. tin

Descendants

References

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

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

Alternative forms

• ????????????? (tin) - Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (tri, “three”)

Numeral

tin (Hanifi spelling ????????????)

1. three

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch tien.

Numeral

tin

1. ten

Swedish

Etymology

Syncopic form of tiden.

Noun

tin

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of tiden, definite singular of tid.

Usage notes

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

Anagrams

• int, nit

Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [tin??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [tin??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [t?n??]

Verb

tin • (????, ????)

1. to believe or to trust

Noun

tin • (????, ????)

1. news

   Synonym: tin t?c

Welsh

Etymology

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

Noun

tin f (plural tinau)

1. (vulgar, offensive) arse

   Synonym: pen-ôl

Mutation

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

English

Etymology

tin +? tack

Noun

tintack (plural tintacks)

1. A short nail or tack coated with tin.
2. (Britain) A drawing pin; thumbtack.

Verb

tintack (third-person singular simple present tintacks, present participle tintacking, simple past and past participle tintacked)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) To sack; to fire from a job.