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Definition: TAIN |
TAINNoun1. Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors. |
Date "TAIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Crosswords: TAIN |
| Etymologies containing "TAIN": Teyne. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "TAIN" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (allowance, meed). |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tain."
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Movie/TV Titles | Eonjena tain (1969) | |
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| "TAIN" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TAIN" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TAIN": ay-a-tain, cer-tain. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tain | 36 |
ortho tain | 13 |
miroir sans tain | 6 |
tain scotland | 4 |
shania tain | 3 |
cap tain | 3 |
atrac cream tain | 2 |
enabran garak tain | 2 |
hermitage l tain | 2 |
pottery tain | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TAIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | Амалгама За Огледала. (various references) | |
Hungarian | Foncsor. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aintay.(various references) | |
Russian | Оловянная Амальгама. (various references) | |
Scottish | Baile Dhubhthaich. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | list kalaja (tinfoil). (various references) | |
Thai | แผ่น"ีบุกบาง"้านหลังกระจก. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thuỷ gương, hỗn hống thiếc. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TAIN": tains, taint, tainted, tainting, taintless, taints. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "TAIN": abstain, appertain, ascertain, attain, bloodstain, captain, certain, chieftain, cocaptain, contain, counterstain, curtain, destain, detain, distain, entertain, fountain, intermountain, maintain, mountain, obtain, pertain, plantain, quintain, reattain, reobtain, retain, sextain, stain, sustain, tearstain, transmountain, uncertain. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TAIN": abstained, abstainer, abstainers, abstaining, abstains, appertained, appertaining, appertains, ascertainable, ascertained, ascertaining, ascertainment, ascertainments, ascertains, attainabilities, attainability, attainable, attainder, attainders, attained, attainer, attainers, attaining, attainment, attainments, attains, attaint, attainted, attainting, attaints, betaine, betaines, bloodstained, bloodstains, captaincies, captaincy, captained, captaining, captains, captainship, captainships, certainer, certainest, certainly, certainties, certainty, chieftaincies, chieftaincy, chieftains, chieftainship, chieftainships, cocaptained, cocaptaining, cocaptains, containable, contained, container, containerboard, containerboards, containerisation, containerisations, containerise, containerised, containerises, containerising, containerization, containerizations, containerize, containerized, containerizes, containerizing, containerless, containerport, containerports, containers, containership, containerships, containing, containment, containments, contains, counterstained, counterstaining, counterstains, curtained, curtaining, curtainless, curtains, destained, destaining, destains, detained, detainee, detainees, detainer, detainers, detaining, detainment, detainments, detains, distained, distaining, distains, edutainment, edutainments, entertained, entertainer, entertainers, entertaining, entertainingly, entertainment, entertainments, entertains, fountained, fountainhead, fountainheads, fountaining, fountains, infotainment, infotainments, maintainabilities, maintainability, maintainable, maintained, maintainer, maintainers, maintaining, maintains, mountaineer, mountaineering, mountaineerings, mountaineers, mountainous, mountainously, mountainousness, mountainousnesses, mountains, mountainside, mountainsides, mountaintop, mountaintops, mountainy, nonentertainment, nonentertainments, obtainabilities, obtainability, obtainable, obtained, obtainer, obtainers, obtaining, obtainment, obtainments, obtains, overentertained, pertained, pertaining, pertains, plantains, quintains, reattained, reattaining, reattains, reobtained, reobtaining, reobtains, retained, retainer, retainers, retaining, retains, sextains, stainabilities, stainability, stainable, stained, stainer, stainers, staining, stainless, stainlesses, stainlessly, stainproof, stains, sustainabilities, sustainability, sustainable, sustained, sustainedly, sustainer, sustainers, sustaining, sustains, tearstained, tearstains, unattainable, uncertainly, uncertainness, uncertainnesses, uncertainties, uncertainty, uncontainable, uncurtained, unobtainable, unstained, unsustainable, untainted. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "ain": Bain, Blain, Flain, Kain, swain, twain, Zain. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: anti. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-n-t" | |
-1 letter: ain, ait, ani, ant, nit, tan, tin. | |
-2 letters: ai, an, at, in, it, na, ta, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-n-t" | |
+1 letter: actin, antic, antis, entia, faint, giant, inapt, matin, paint, patin, pinta, riant, saint, satin, stain, tains, taint, takin, tenia, tinea, titan, train, twain, witan. | |
+2 letters: acetin, acting, actins, action, anoint, antiar, antick, antics, anting, aroint, atonic, attain, atwain, auntie, bandit, bating, binate, bonita, canthi, cantic, cation, catkin, catlin, catnip, centai, dainty, dating, detain, eating, enatic, entail, etamin, faints, fating, gainst, gating, giants, gitano, gratin, hating, hatpin, incant, infant, ingate, inmate, innate, instal, instar, intact, intake, intima, isatin, kainit, kation, latino, lattin, litany, manito, manitu, mantic, mantid, mantis, martin, mating, matins, mattin, nastic, nation, native, nutria, obtain, paints, painty, pandit, pantie, patina, patine, patins, pinata, pineta, pintas, pitman, plaint, pliant, ptisan, qintar, quaint, quinta, ratine, rating, ration, ratlin, retain, retina, saints, sanity, santir, sating, satins, satiny, shanti, stains, strain, taenia, tahini, taints, taipan, taking, takins, talion, tamein, taming, tanist, tannic, tannin, tanuki, taping, taring, tawing, taxing, tenail, teniae, tenias, tincal, tineal, tineas, tinman, tisane, titans, titian, titman, trains, trinal, tunica, twains, vanity, zeatin. | |
+3 letters: abating, absinth, abstain, acanthi, acetins, aconite, actinal, actings, actinia, actinic, actinon, actions, adjoint, affiant, against, agnatic, agonist, ailment, airting, alation, aliment, alunite, amanita, ambient, amenity, amentia, aminity, amniote, amotion, anality, ancient, anestri, anility, animate, animato, animist, annuity, anoints, antacid, antefix, anteing, anthill, anthoid, antiair, antiars, antibug, anticar, anticks, anticly, antifat, antiflu, antifur, antigay, antigen, antigun, antijam, antilog, antiman, antings, antipot, antique, antired, antisag, antisex, antitax, antiwar, antlike, antlion, antsier, anxiety, anytime, appoint, arenite, aroints, artisan, asquint, atingle, atonics, atonies, atoning, atropin, attains, attaint, auction, audient, aunties, autoing, baiting, bandits, banties, basinet, basting, bastion, bathing, batting, batwing, beating, beatnik, bepaint, betaine, boating, bonitas, botanic, brisant, cabinet, cantina, canting, cantrip, captain, caption, carotin, carting, casting, cations, catkins, catling, catlins, catmint, catnips, catting, caution, ceratin, certain, cineast, coating, contain, crating, creatin, curtain, cyanite, darting, dauting, dawting, defiant, depaint, destain, detains, detrain, deviant, diatron, dingbat, discant, distain, distant, dittany, doating, easting, eatings, elastin, elating, elation, enation, entails, entasia, entasis, entrain, etamine, etamins, etesian, faction, fainest, fainted, fainter, faintly, fanatic, fantail, farting, fasting, fatling, fatting, fontina, frantic, fustian, gahnite, gaiting, gasting, gastrin, gelatin, genital, gentian, gigaton, gitanos, gnathic, granita, granite, gratine, grating, gratins, habitan, hafting, hairnet, halting, hanting, hasting, hatpins, hatting, heating, hematin, hoatzin, ignatia, impaint, implant, inanest, inanity, inaptly, incants, indraft, inearth, inedita, inertia, inexact, infanta, infante, infants, infarct, inflate, infract, ingates, ingesta, ingraft, ingrate, inhabit, initial, inmates, install, instals, instant, instars, instate, instead, intagli, intakes, inthral, intimae, intimal, intimas, intrant, intreat, invital, isatine, isatins, issuant, iterant, jacinth, janitor, kainite, kainits, karting, katcina, kations, keratin, kyanite, lanital, lasting, lathing, latinos, latrine, lattins, liftman, lineate, lunatic, maintop, malting, manihot, manitos, manitou, manitus, mannite, mantids, mantric, manumit, martian, marting, martini, martins, masting, matinal, matinee, matings, matting, mattins, mediant, migrant, minaret, mintage, minutia, moating, nailset, naivest, naivete, naivety, narcist, nastier, nasties, nastily, nations, natives, natrium, nattier, nattily, nautili, nematic, nictate, niobate, nitrate, nuptial, nutrias, obtains, onanist, opuntia, orating, oration, outgain, outlain, ovation, oxidant, paction, painted, painter, pandits, panties, pantile, panting, parting, pastina, pasting, patient, patinae, patinas, patined, patines, patting, pertain, petunia, pianist, picante, pinatas, pinnate, pintada, pintado, pintail, pintano, piquant, pissant, pitmans, plaints, platina, plating, prating, ptisans, ptomain, ptyalin, puritan, qintars, quantic, quinate, quinnat, quintal, quintan, quintar, quintas, radiant, rafting, raiment, rainout, ranting, ratfink, ratines, ratings, rations, ratline, ratlins, ratting, reliant, repaint, retains, retinae, retinal, retinas, retrain, retsina, riantly, ringtaw, ruinate, sainted, saintly, salient, saltine, salting, sandpit, santimi, santims, santirs, sapient, satanic, satinet, seating, sestina, sextain, shaitan, shantih, shantis, sheitan, sinuate, skating, slainte, slating, spinate, spirant, staging, stained, stainer, staking, staling, stamina, stanine, staning, stannic, staring, stating, station, staving, staying, stearin, sthenia, strains, stygian, sustain, tabanid, tabbing, tabling, taborin, tabuing, tacking, tacrine, taction, taeniae, taenias, tagging, tahinis, tailfan, tailing, tainted, taipans, takings, talcing, talions, talking, tamarin, tameins, tamping, tampion, tangier, tanging, tanists, tanking, tanning, tannins, tannish, tansies, tantivy, tantric, tanukis, tapping, tarnish, tarring, tarting, tasking, tasting, tatting, taurine, tauting, tawnier, tawnies, tawnily, tawsing, taxiing, taximan, taximen, taxying, teaming, tearing, teasing, tegmina, tenails, terrain, tertian, tetanic, thawing, thiamin, thiazin, tiffany, timpana, timpani, timpano, tinamou, tincals, tinware, tisanes, titania, titanic, titians, titrant, toenail, tracing, trading, trained, trainee, trainer, transit, trenail, triazin, trinary, tsarina, tsunami, tunicae, tympani, tzarina, tzigane, unakite, unfaith, unitage, unitard, unitary, unplait, uranite, urinate, utopian, vainest, valiant, variant, varmint, vatting, vauntie, vawntie, venatic, ventail, vibrant, vintage, vitamin, vitrain, wafting, waiting, waniest, wanting, wasting, xanthic, xanthin, zaniest, zeatins, zincate. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 41 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T A I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0041 0049 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54354348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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