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TAIN

Definition: TAIN

TAIN

Noun

1. Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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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Specialty Definition: Tain

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Tain is a burgh in the Scottish Highlands, on the main rail and A9 road routes to the north coast. Notable buildings in the town include Tain Tolbooth and St Duthus Collegiate Church, named for Saint Duthus, who was born in the burgh. The town also boasts a museum and a distillery.

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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Modern Usage: TAIN

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Eonjena tain (1969)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TAIN

DomainTitle

Books

  • Tain (reference)

  • Tain Bo Cuailnge, Recension 1 (reference)

  • The Tain Bo Cuailnge (reference)

  • The Tain of the Mirror: Derrida and the Philosophy of Reflection (reference)

  • Ural politicheskii bez tain i zagadok, 1994-1998 gg. : zanimatelnaia politologiia v 463 fotografiiakh, 478 risunkakh i 330 dokumentakh (reference)

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Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: TAIN

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)100%1980,337

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: TAIN

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "TAIN": ay-a-tain, cer-tain.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TAIN

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: TAIN

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.

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Derivations: TAIN

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).

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Rhyming with "TAIN"

Words ending with "ain": Bain, Blain, Flain, Kain, swain, twain, Zain. (additional references)

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Anagrams: TAIN

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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.

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Alternative Orthography: TAIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 41 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    .-    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01000001 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#65 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0041 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54354348

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INDEX

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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