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tin

Definition

  • noun: a soft, shiny, bluish-white metal that has many different uses
  • noun: a soft faintly bluish-white lustrous low-melting crystalline metallic element that is malleable and ductile at ordinary temperatures and that is used especially in containers, as a protective coating, in tinfoil, and in soft solders and alloys
  • verb: to cover or plate with tin or a tin alloy
  • synonyms: tin mordant

Examples

  • a writer with a 'tin ear' for dialogue [=who writes dialogue that does not sound real]

  • My wife is a talented musician, but I have a 'tin ear'.

  • a 'tin' of biscuits/tobacco

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) what they're finding in the ground down there. They're just falling into it. Silver mines, gold mines, tin mines. Payrolls so heavy we'd strain ourselves stealing them. You just keep thinking, Butch. That's what you're good at. (..)
    1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid