tin

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tin

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tindi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tindi terms

Chemical element (edit)
Sn Atomic number 50 tin
Classification data Period 5 Group 14 Block p-block Class post-transition metal
Previous: ← indium (In)
Next: antimony (Sb) →
English Wikipedia article on Tin

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

• enPR: tĭn, IPA^(key): /tɪn/, [tʰɪn]

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophones: thin (th-stopping); ten (pin–pen merger)

tin (countable and uncountable, plural tins)

2. (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
4. (metonymic) Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.

   Synonym: tinplate

   The roof was made of tin, which had been cut with tin snips.

6. (chiefly UK, Commonwealth, countable) 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.

   Synonym: can (chiefly US and Canada)

   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.

7. (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.

   muffin tin

   roasting tin

   baking tin

   • 2023 October 28, Ashlie D. Stevens, ““Great British Bake Off” shocks viewers with a dramatic double-elimination round”, in Salon‎^[1]:

     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.

8. (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
9. (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

10. (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.

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

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.

3. Made of aluminum.

• tinnen (obsolete)

• tin tabernacle
• tin bath

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

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

• pre-tin
• tinned dog

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

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

Chemical element (edit)
Sn Atomic number 50 tin
Classification data Period 5 Group 14 Block p-block Class post-transition metal
Previous: ← indium (In)
Next: antimoon (Sb) →

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tin (uncountable)

1. tin

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

• IPA^(key): /tin/

tin (Bengali script তিন)

1. corrugated iron

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

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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

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “tin”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[2] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 4, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, page 343

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

tin m (collective)

1. figs

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

Chemical element (edit)
Sn Atomic number 50 tin
Classification data Period 5 Group 14 Block p-block Class post-transition metal
Previous: ← indium (In)
Next: antimon (Sb) →

From Old Norse tin. Compare German Zinn.

tin n (singular definite tinnet, not used in plural form)

1. tin (metal, metallic element)

• “tin” in Den Danske Ordbog

Chemical element (edit)
Sn Atomic number 50 tin
Classification data Period 5 Group 14 Block p-block Class post-transition metal
Previous: ← indium (In)
Next: antimoon (Sb) →

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

• IPA^(key): /tɪn/

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• Hyphenation: tin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

tin n (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. tin (metal, metallic element)

• soldeertin
• tinnen

• Afrikaans: tin
• Negerhollands: den

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

• IPA^(key): /tʰiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

tin n (genitive singular tins, uncountable)

1. tin (chemical element)

• tio, tino

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

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

1. yours (second-person singular possessor)

• tin in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

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From Middle French tin, tind.

tin m (plural tins)

1. a wooden support, often used on watercraft

tin

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

• “tin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Borrowed from English tin.

• IPA^(key): /tin/

tin

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

Chemical element (edit)
Sn Atomic number 50 tin
Classification data Period 5 Group 14 Block p-block Class post-transition metal
Previous: ← indín (In)
Next: antimon (Sb) →

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

• IPA^(key): /tʰɪːn/
• Rhymes: -ɪːn

tin n (genitive singular tins, no plural)

1. tin (chemical element)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtin/ [ˈt̪in]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: tin

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

tin (plural tin-tin)

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

   Synonyms: belek, kaleng

• tim

From Arabic تِين (tīn, “fig”).

tin (plural tin-tin)

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

   Synonym: ara (“fig”)

• “tin”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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

Inherited from Arabic تِين (tīn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

tin m (collective, singulative tina, plural tiniet)

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

   Alternative form: tint

   Synonyms: natka (natika), tebqa tas-sorm

tin (subjective pronoun þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and Northeast Midland) alternative form of þin (“thy”)

tin (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and Northeast Midland) alternative form of þin (“thine”)

tin

1. alternative form of tyn

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tin (“every”).

tin

1. every, all

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tin (“nail, claw”).

tin

1. nail (of an animal), including also:
   1. fingernail
   2. talon
   3. hoof
   4. claw

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “tin”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

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

Cognates:

• Apachean: Western Apache tįh, Chiricahua tį’, Lipan kįh
• Others: Hupa -tiŋ, Galice tʰɐn, Chilcotin tə̀n, Slavey tę̀, -téné’, Dogrib tǫ́, Dene Sųłiné tə̀n, Sarcee nistiní, Chipewyan tvn, Beaver istv́ni, Carrier tvn, Sekani tə̀n, Hän tán, Ahtna ten, Dena’ina tən.

• IPA^(key): [tʰɪ̀n]

tin

1. ice, frost

From English thing.

tin (plural tins)

1. thing
   • 2024 September 5, Helen Oyibo, “'Except crase enta na di kain tin I don do before, I go do if I become govnor of Edo State' - Asue Ighodalo”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[3], archived from the original on 29 April 2025:

     "So if you dey tok about pipo wey dey mentor pipo dey guide dem, its not a bad tin to have a mentor but no be say you go get pesin wey go dey tell you say go here, go here, do dis, do dis, how?"

     "So if you talk about people who mentor people and guide them, its not a bad thing to have a mentor but you can't say you understand a person who tells you to go here, go here, do this, do this, how?"

   • 2025 February 4, “Bianca Censori Grammys dress and oda looks from events wey make pipo open mouth”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[4], archived from the original on 29 April 2025:

     Some stars don really push di line between shocking and stylish even as pipo start to wonder wen di fashion dey finish and di unexpected tins dey start.

     Some stars have really pushed the line between shocking and stylish even as people start to wonder when the fashion ends and the unexpected things begin.

tin

1. five

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

North Frisian cardinal numbers

<  9	10	11  >
Cardinal : tin

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

tin

1. (Föhr-Amrum) ten

tìn n (definite singular tìnet)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of tinn

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

• IPA^(key): /tin/

tin n

1. tin

Strong a-stem:

• tinen

• Middle English: tyn, tin, tyne, tynne
  • English: tin
    • → Atong (India): tin
    • → Iban: tin
    • → Indonesian: tin
    • → Norman: tinne
    • Tok Pisin: tin
  • Scots: tin

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

tin n

1. tin

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “tin”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

tin

1. Lamy spelling of tĩ

From Portuguese ter and Spanish tener and Kabuverdianu têm.

tin

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

tin m

1. your

Rohingya cardinal numbers

<  2	3	4  >
Cardinal : tin

From Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

tin (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴞𐴕)

1. three

Borrowed from Dutch tien.

tin

1. ten

tin

1. romanization of 𒁷 (tin)

Syncopic form of tiden.

tin

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

   Han skriker hela tin! ― He's yelling all the time!

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

• int, nit

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [tin˧˥]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [tin˦]

From Proto-Tai *tiːnᴬ (“foot”).

tin (Nôm form 𬦿)

1. foot

• tin fạ
• tin khôn

From Vietnamese tin.

tin (Nôm form 信)

1. news

From English tin.

tin

1. tin, can

• tinpis

• IPA^(key): /ˈtin/, [t̪ʰin̪]
• Rhymes: -in

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰃𐰤 (tïn, “spirit, breath”). Revived by the Turkish Language Association (TDK) through Kashgar's Divan-i Lugati't-Türk to replace the Arabic borrowing ruh first time in 1934. Revival includes initial-t, while its Turkish cognates include initial-d.

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinler)

1. (rare) soul, spirit

   Synonyms: ruh, can

2. (philosophy) The essence or entity which some metaphysicists claim that the universe was created by or originated from

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

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinler)

1. (archaic) fig

   Synonym: incir

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

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

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tin˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tin˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɨn˧˧]

tin • (信, 𪝮, 𠒷)

1. to believe; to trust; to have faith

   niềm tin ― trust

   trị bệnh bằng niềm tin ― faith healing

tin • (信, 𪝮, 𠒷)

1. news

   Synonym: tin tức

   tin nóng ― breaking news

   tin buồn ― sad news, especially about someone who's passed away

   tin dữ ― bad news

   tin mừng/vui ― good news

   đạo Tin Lành ― Protestantism (literally, “religion of good news; religion of the gospel; evangelical religion”)

From Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-. Cognate with English thigh and Scottish Gaelic tòin.

• IPA^(key): /tiːn/

tin f (plural tinau)

1. (vulgar, offensive) arse

   Synonym: pen-ôl

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “tin”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• 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

• IPA^(key): /tĩ̄/

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.