tin

Symbol

tin

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

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tindi terms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĭn, IPA^(key): /tɪn/, [tʰɪn]

• Audio (US):

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

Noun

tin (countable and uncountable, plural tins)

2. (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
3. (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, British, countable) An airtight container, made of tin 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.

   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.

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

   muffin tin

   roasting tin

   baking tin

   • 2023 October 28, “Next generation ‘clasico’: Bellingham faces 1st game against a Barcelona brimming with young talents”, in The Washington Times‎:

     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 April 30, “The Lions missed their chance, and the Eagles are smarter than everybody”, in The Washington Times‎:

     Jones was insanely productive last season. He is a clinical route-runner who can line up at any position and catches everything.

5. (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
6. (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

7. (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.

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.

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

See also

References

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

Anagrams

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

tin (uncountable)

1. tin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin (Bengali script তিন)

1. corrugated iron

References

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

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

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

Etymology

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

Noun

tin m (collective)

1. figs

References

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

Etymology

From Old Norse tin. Compare German Zinn.

Noun

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

1. tin (metal, metallic element)

References

• “tin” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

tin n (uncountable)

1. tin (metal, metallic element)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, uncountable)

1. tin (chemical element)

Alternative forms

• tio, tino

Etymology

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

Pronoun

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

1. yours (second-person singular possessor)

References

• tin in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

Etymology 1

From Middle French tin, tind.

Etymology 2

Further reading

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English tin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰɪːn/
• Rhymes: -ɪːn

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, no plural)

1. tin (chemical element)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɪn]
• Hyphenation: tin

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From Arabic تِين (tīn, “fig”).

Further reading

• “tin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Verb

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

Etymology

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn/

Noun

tin m (collective, singulative tina, plural tiniet)

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

   Synonyms: natka (natika), tebqa tas-sorm

   Alternative form: tint

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʰɪ̀n]

Noun

tin

1. ice, frost

Numeral

tin

1. five

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

Etymology

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

Numeral

tin

1. (Föhr-Amrum) ten

Noun

tìn n (definite singular tìnet)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of tinn

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin n

1. tin

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Noun

tin n

1. tin

Further reading

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

Noun

tin

1. Lamy spelling of tĩ

Etymology

From Portuguese ter and Spanish tener and Kabuverdianu têm.

Verb

tin

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

Pronoun

tin m

1. your

Etymology

From Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

Numeral

tin (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴞𐴕)

1. three

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch tien.

Numeral

tin

1. ten

Romanization

tin

1. Romanization of 𒁷 (tin)

Etymology

Syncopic form of tiden.

Noun

tin

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

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

Anagrams

• int, nit

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *tiːnᴬ (“foot”).

Etymology 2

From Vietnamese tin.

Etymology

From English tin.

Noun

tin

1. tin, can

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰃𐰤 (tïn, “spirit, breath”).

Etymology 2

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish [Term?], from Arabic تِين (tīn).

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tin • (信, 𪝮, 𠒷)

1. to believe; to trust; to have faith

   niềm tin ― trust

   trị bệnh bằng niềm tin ― faith healing

Noun

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”)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːn/

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tĩ̄/

Verb

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.