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 (with th-stopping), ten (with pin-pen merger)

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, 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.

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

   muffin tin

   roasting tin

   baking tin

4. (countable, squash) 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.
   • 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

6. (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.

• 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

tin (uncountable)

1. tin

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

• IPA^(key): /tin/

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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

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

tin

1. tin (Sn)

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)

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)

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

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.)

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

• IPA^(key): /tʰɪːn/
• Rhymes: -ɪːn

tin n (genitive singular tins, no plural)

1. tin (chemical element)

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

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

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

• tim

From Arabic تِين (tīn, “fig”).

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.

• “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.

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

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn/

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

tin (subjective pronoun þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

tin (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

tin

1. Alternative form of tyn

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): [txɪ̀n]

tin

1. ice, frost

tin

1. five

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

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

• 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

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

From Portuguese ter and Spanish tener and Kabuverdianu têm.

tin

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

tin m

1. your

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 (𬦿)

1. foot

• tin fạ
• tin khôn

From Vietnamese tin.

tin (信)

1. news

From English tin.

tin

1. tin, can

• tinpis

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

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

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinler)

1. (spiritualism) soul, spirit(rare, re-introduced in 1934 during the TDK’s language reform)

   Synonyms: ruh, can

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

Borrowed from Arabic تين (tīn, “fig”)

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˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) 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 tưởng
• cả tin

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-, see also English thigh, Scottish Gaelic tòin.

• IPA^(key): /tiːn/

tin f (plural tinau)

1. (vulgar, offensive) arse

   Synonym: pen-ôl

• tin dros ben (“arse over tit”)
• tingoch (“redstart”)
• tinboeth (“lecherous; arsesmart, water-pepper; redstart”)
• tindroed (“grebe, arsefoot”)

• 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.