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Definition: Tin |
TinNoun1. A silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide. 2. Metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour. 3. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. Verb1. Plate with tin. 2. Preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty". 3. Prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Etymology: Tin \Tin\, noun. [Anglo-Saxon tin; akin to Dutch tin, German zinn, Old High German zin, Icelandic & Danish tin, Swedish tenn; of unknown origin.]. (references) |
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Bible | Tin Heb. bedil (Num. 31:22; Ezek. 22:18, 20), a metal well known in ancient times. It is the general opinion that the Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon obtained their supplies of tin from the British Isles. In Ezek. 27:12 it is said to have been brought from Tarshish, which was probably a commercial emporium supplied with commodities from other places. In Isa. 1:25 the word so rendered is generally understood of lead, the alloy with which the silver had become mixed (ver. 22). The fire of the Babylonish Captivity would be the means of purging out the idolatrous alloy that had corrupted the people. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Chemistry | Chemical element:atomic number 50. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A soft, brilliant white, corrosion-resistant metal of density 7. 3g/ml and melting point 232 degrees C, it has a body-centred tetragonal structure at room temperature. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Health | A trace element that is required in bone formation. It has the atomic symbol Sn, atomic number 50, and atomic weight 118.71. (references) |
Metallurgy | Tin metal, any other refined tin, secondary tin, or the tin content of concentrates or of tin ore which has been extracted from its natural occurrence, and of such tin products as the Group may determine. For the purposes of this definition, 'ore'shall be deemed to exclude(i)material which has been extracted from the ore body for a purpose other than that of being dressed, and(ii)material which is discarded in the process of dressing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A tetragonal mineral, Sn : rare; soft; malleable: bluish white. b. The metal extracted from cassiterite; used as a coating to protect iron and copper, such as a foil, and in solder, bronze, and other alloys. Commercially, tin is available in three grades: Grade A must assay 99.75%; grade B must assay 99.7%; and grade C, or common tin, must assay 99% tin. c. To coat with tin, such as to tin iron; tinplate d. Metallic element that has a highly crystalline structure. Symbol, Sn. Found chiefly in cassiterite, SnO2 . Used in alloys such as soft solder, type metal, fusible metal, pewter, bronze, and bell metal and as a crystalline tin-niobium alloy. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tin is a chemical element in the periodic table that has the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. This silvery, malleable true metal that is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion is found in many alloys and is used to coat other metals to prevent corrosion. Tin is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite where it occurs as an oxide.
General Name, Symbol, Number Tin, Sn, 50 Chemical series True metals Group, Period, Block 14 (IVA), 5 , p Density, Hardness 7310 kg/m3, 1.5 Appearance silvery lustrous gray Atomic Properties Atomic weight 118.710 amu Atomic radius (calc.) 145 (145) pm Covalent radius 141 pm van der Waals radius 217 pm Electron configuration [Kr]44d10 5s2 5p2 e- 's per energy level 2, 8, 18, 18, 4 Oxidation states (Oxide) 4,2 (amphoteric) Crystal structure Tetragonal Physical Properties State of matter Solid Melting point 505.08 K (449.47 °F) Boiling point 2875 K (4716 °F) Molar volume 16.29 ×1010-3 m3/mol Heat of vaporization 295.8 kJ/mol Heat of fusion 7.029 kJ/mol Vapor pressure 5.78 E-21 Pa at 505 K Speed of sound 2500 m/s at 293.15 K Miscellaneous Electronegativity 1.96 (Pauling scale) Specific heat capacity 228 J/(kg*K) Electrical conductivity 9.17 106/m ohm Thermal conductivity 66.6 W/(m*K) 1st ionization potential 708.6 kJ/mol 2nd ionization potential 1411.8 kJ/mol 3rd ionization potential 2943.0 kJ/mol 4th ionization potential 3930.3 kJ/mol 5th ionization potential 7456 kJ/mol Most Stable Isotopes
iso NA half-life DM DE MeV DP 112Sn 0.97% Sn is stable with 62 neutrons 114Sn 0.65% Sn is stable with 64 neutrons 115Sn 0.34% Sn is stable with 65 neutrons 116Sn 14.54% Sn is stable with 66 neutrons 117Sn 7.68% Sn is stable with 67 neutrons 118Sn 24.23% Sn is stable with 68 neutrons 119Sn 8.59% Sn is stable with 69 neutrons 120Sn 32.59% Sn is stable with 70 neutrons meta state 0.006 MeV 55 y IT
Beta-0.006
0.394
121Sb122Sn 4.63% Sn is stable with 72 neutrons 124Sn 5.79% Sn is stable with 74 neutrons 126Sn {syn.} ~1 E5 y Beta- 0.380 126Sb SI units & STP are used except where noted.
Notable Characteristics
Tin is a malleable, ductile, highly crystalline, silvery-white metal whose crystal structure causes a "tin cry" when a bar of tin is bent (caused by crystals breaking). This metal resists corrosion from distilled sea and soft tap water, but can be attacked by strong acids, alkalis, and by acid salts. Tin acts as a catalyst when oxygen is in solution and helps accelerate chemical attack.Tin forms Sn2 is when it is heated in the presence of air. Sn2, in turn, is feebly acidic and forms stannate (tin) salts with basic oxides. Tin can be highly polished and is used as a protective coat for other metals in order to prevent corrosion or other chemical action. This metal combines directly with chlorine and oxygen and displaces hydrogen from dilute acids. Tin is malleable at ordinary temperatures but is brittle when it is heated.
Allotropes
Solid tin has two allotropes at normal pressure. At low temperatures it exists as gray or alpha tin, which has a cubic crystal structure similar to silicon and germanium. When warmed above that 13.2 °C it changes into white or beta tin, which is metallic and has a tetragonal structure. It slowly changes back to the gray form when cooled, which is called the tin pest or tin disease. However, this transformation is affected by impurities such as aluminum and zinc and can be prevented from occurring through the addition of antimony or bismuth.Applications
Tin bonds readily to iron, and has been used for coating lead or zinc and steel to prevent corrosion. Tin-plated steel containers are widely used for food preservation, and this forms a large part of the market for metallic tin. Other uses;Tin becomes a superconductor below 3.72 K. In fact, tin was one of the first superconductors to be studied; the Meissner effect, one of the characteristic features of superconductors, was first discovered in superconducting tin crystals. The niobium-tin alloy Nb3Sn is commercially used as wires for superconducting magnets, due to the material's high critical temperature (18K) and critical magnetic field (25 T). A superconducting magnet weighing only a couple of kilograms is capable of producing magnetic fields comparable to a conventional electromagnet weighing tons.
- Some important tin alloys are; bronze, bell metal, Babbitt metal, die casting alloy, pewter, phosphor bronze, soft solder, and White metal.
- The most important salt formed is tin chloride, which has found use as a reducing agent and as a mordant in the calico printing process. Electrically conductive coatings are produced when tin salts are sprayed onto glass. These coatings have been used in panel lighting and in the production of frost-free windshields.
- Window glass is most often made via floating molten glass on top of molten tin (float glass) in order to make a flat surface (this is called the Pilkington process).
- Tin is also used in solders for joining pipess or electrical/electronic circuits, in bearing alloys, in glass-making, and in a wide range of tin chemical applications.
History
Tin (anglo-Saxon, tin, Latin stannum) is one of the earliest metals known and was used as a component of bronze from antiquity. Because of its hardening effect on copper, tin was used in bronze implements as early as 3,500 BC. A thriving tin trade existed in Classical times between the mines in Cornwall and the civilizations of the Mediterranean. However the pure metal was not used until about 600 BC.Occurrence
About 35 countries mine tin throughout the world. Nearly every continent has an important tin-mining country. Tin is produced by reducing the ore with coal in a reverberatory furnace. This metal is a relatively scarce element with an abundance in the earth's crust of about 2 ppm, compared with 94 ppm for zinc, 63 ppm for copper, and 12 ppm for lead. Most of the world's tin is produced from placer deposits; at least one-half comes from Southeast Asia. The only mineral of commercial importance as a source of tin is cassiterite (SnO2), although small quantities of tin are recovered from complex sulfides such as stanite, cylindrite, frankeite, canfieldite, and teallite. Secondary, or scrap, tin is also an important source of the tin.Isotopes
Ordinary tin is made of nine stable isotopes and there are 18 unstable isotopes in addition to this that are also known.Precautions
The small amount of tin that is found in canned foods is not harmful to humans. Trialkyl and triaryl tin compounds are biocides and need to be handled with care.
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See also: International Tin Council, tinnedSource: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tin."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
TIN | English | Transaction Identification Number | Business |
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Synonyms: TinSynonyms: atomic number 50 (n), canister (n), cannister (n), tin can (n), can (v), put up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Celebration | Noun: celebration, solemnization, jubilee, commemoration, ovation, paean, triumph, jubilation, ceremony (rite); holiday, fiesta, zarabanda, revelry, feast (amusement); china anniversary, diamond anniversary, golden anniversary, silver anniversary, tin anniversary, china jubilee, diamond jubilee, golden jubilee, silver jubilee, tin jubilee, china wedding, diamond wedding, golden wedding, silver wedding, tin wedding. |
Money | Currency, circulating medium, specie, coin, piece, hard cash, cold cash; dollar, sterling coin; pounds shillings and pence; Ls.d.; pocket, breeches pocket, purse; money in hand, cash at hand; ready money, ready cash; slug, wad wad of bills, wad of money, thick wad of bills, roll of dough; rhino, blunt, dust, mopus, tin, salt, chink; argent comptant; bottom dollar, buzzard dollar; checks, dibs. |
Preservation | Embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband; (store). |
Wealth | Flush, flush of cash, flush of money, flush of tin; in funds, in cash, in full feather; solvent, pecunious, out of debt, in the black, all straight. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tin |
| English words defined with "tin": Black tin, Block tin ♦ Stream tin ♦ Tin cry, tin disease, tin foil, Tin frame, Tin penny, tin pest, tin plague, tin plate, tin pyrites. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tin": alluvial tin ♦ bar tin, beta tin ♦ crop tin, cry of tin ♦ gray tin, grey tin ♦ lode tin ♦ mine tin ♦ Penang tin, premium tin ♦ rosin tin ♦ small tin, standard tin, Straits tin ♦ tin bound, Tin Compounds, Tin Fluorides, tin minerals, Tin Polyphosphates, Tin Radioisotopes, TIN RECOVERY WORKER, tin salt, TIN STACKER ♦ white tin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tin": Stannum. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tin" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (tin), Dutch (tin), Faeroese (tin), Frisian (gaunt, lean, slender, thin), Icelandic (tin), Italian (vessel), Papiamen (have, have got, own, possess, there are, there is), Sranan (ten), Welsh (bottom, breech, rump, tail). |
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Screenplays | For what? For a tin star (High Noon; writing credit: Carl Foreman) You fire me, and I'll make more noise than two skeletons making love in a tin coffin, brother (R.O.T.O.R.; writing credit: Cullen Blaine; Budd Lewis) Man, some trip this turned out to be. All we caught is a tire, a boot, a tin can and this book of clichés (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) I'm lookin' at a tin star with a drunk pinned on it. (El Dorado; writing credit: Felix Adler; Jack Jevne) And that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit 'em, but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) | |
Lyrics | If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn (Hook; performing artist: Blues Traveler) Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming ("Ohio"; performing artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) Am I sitting in a tin can (Space Oddity; performing artist: David Bowie) Ten of your tin soldiers in a row (Nikita; performing artist: Elton John) Now I'm just like a cat on a hot tin roof (Get Down; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan) | |
Tongue Twisters | Ten tame tadpoles tucked tightly together in a thin tall tin. (references; author: unknown) Ten tiny tin trains toot ten times. (references; author: unknown) Thick ticks on three trees brought broth to ten thin tin men. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Diestrammenoi apo tin genna tous (1974) Martyries apo tin Kypro (1974) Apo tin alli ohthi (1973) Anazitontas tin eftihia (1972) | |
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 | Domestic species are those that breed close to human habitation. Tin cans in open dumps containing water may also contain larvae of any of the three domestic species including Culex quinquefasciatus, Culex pipiens, and Aedes aegypti. Credit: CDC. |  | Pole signal with tin cone for reflecting sunlight Constructed by survey crews under direction of Ferdinand Hassler Sketch by Assistant John Farley - view looking to south across Long Island Sound. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Tripod signal with tin cone for reflecting sunlight At signal West Base, west end of Great Fire Island Base Line Constructed by survey crews under direction of Ferdinand Hassler Sketch by Assistant John Farley - view looking to east. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Plate VI -- Tin reflecting signal cone and principles of observing on. In: Papers on various subjects connected with the survey of the coast of the United States" by Ferdinand Hassler. Communicated March 3, 1820. Published in United States" by Ferdinand Hassler. Communicated March 3, 1820. Published in 232-420. Library Call Number QB281.2 .H28 1825. Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Packing room at sardine cannery, Eastport, Maine Packing herring-sardines in tin boxes From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Figure 10. Dahl-Fjeldstad current meter - designed by assistant professor Jonas Ekman Fjeldstad of the University of Bergen in collaboration with the Norwegian engineer Odd Dahl. It automatically punched its readings on a tin strip for later reading and analysis. This system was completed in 1937. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 65, Kerhnon, France. : Firehouse and tin shop. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | ... in the Gilbert Islands, mass vaccination against the cholera outbreak ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Tin Maung Maung.. |
 | Who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism while serving as a Chaplain with the 3rd Battalion, Fifth Marines in Vietnam. He was killed in action in Quang Tin Province, Republic of Vietnam, on 4 September 1967, while administering medical aid and Last Rites to wounded Marines on the battlefield. Credit: NAVY. |  | One honorable tin box. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Rusted tin" by Gábor Suhajda Commentary: "Rusted tin." | "Paint Session" by Nicholas Ong Commentary: "Tin cans full of paint." |
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 | Silverware; tin; metal; clinking; clink. |
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Elbert Hubbard | The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | A tin pipe ascends through the ceiling, and forms a medium of vocal communication with other parts of the edifice |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Tin tin tin Pour Pantin |
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum | asked the Tin Woodman |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | She set tin cups on a big packing box, set tin plates and knives and forks out. |
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Business | The major operators are TIN, I.Net, Tiscali, Infostrada, Albacom, and Galactica. (references) | |
The Argentine Chamber of Manufactures of Metallic Containers (CAFEMYA) is carrying out a campaign aimed at increasing consumption of tin, with which most of the containers for oil and tomato paste are made. It must be pointed out that tin has been replaced by plastic in the case of oil. This campaign may influence the use of machinery for handling these kinds of containers. (references) | ||
The market for plastic materials continues to grow rapidly due to varied and rising use of plastic goods over the recent years, substituting wood, tin, aluminum, glass, china clay, etc. The total demand of plastic materials stood at USD 231 million in 1999-2000 increasing from USD 222.99 million in 1997-8. The market is expected to grow at a rate of 10 to 15 percent for the next three years. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Burma | At least one well-known publisher, Tin Maung Than, departed the country during the year in fear that his activities would lead to his imprisonment. (references) |
Burma | The SPDC similarly detained on both occasions other leaders of the NLD, including the vice chairman of the NLD, U Tin Oo. Since 1996 security forces also have restricted public movement along the street in front of Aung San Suu Kyi's residence. (references) | |
Burma | Nevertheless, on Labor Day (May 1) and on the anniversary of the NLD (September 27), some speeches critical of the government were delivered by opposition leaders, including NLD vice chairman U Tin Oo. Many prominent writers and journalists remain in prison. (references) | |
Economic History | Argentina | Minerals: lead, zinc, tin, copper, iron, manganese, oil, uranium. (references) |
Bolivia | Bolivia's major exports to the U.S. are tin, gold, jewelry, and wood products. (references) | |
Nigeria | Principal ports are at Lagos (Apapa and Tin Can Island), Port Harcourt, and Calabar. (references) | |
Human Rights | Burma | Another prominent political prisoner is U Win Tin, a noted journalist and writer, who has been in prison since July 1989. He is 71 years old and also reportedly in poor health. (references) |
Trade | Malaysia | Export duties ranging from 5% to 10% are imposed on the principal commodities: petroleum, timber, rubber, palm oil, and tin. (references) |
Malaysia | Import licenses are required for a number of items, including arms and explosives; motor vehicles; certain drugs and chemicals; plants; soil; tin ore, slag or concentrates; and various essential foodstuffs. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | According to a 2000 TIN report, the length of the average sentence of Tibetan political prisoners is increasing. (references) |
China | Soon after his flight, TIN reported that at least two Tsurphu monks were arrested and that the Karmapa's parents were placed under surveillance. (references) | |
China | TIN reported severe beatings of several nuns serving long prison sentences, including Ngawang Choezom and Phuntsog Nyidrol, imprisoned in 1989 for singing proindependence songs. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.46% of the time. "Tin" is used about 2,009 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 (singular) | 97.46% | 1,958 | 4,391 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.54% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,009 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "tin" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Tin | Last name | 130 | 59,683 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Malaysia | Ayer Hitam Tin Dredging Malaysia Berhad |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "tin": baking tin ♦ bar tin ♦ biscuit tin ♦ Black tin ♦ block tin ♦ Butter of tin ♦ containing tin ♦ cry of tin ♦ grain tin ♦ gray tin ♦ grey tin ♦ mess tin ♦ pierce the lid of a tin ♦ powder tin ♦ roof tin ♦ salt of tin ♦ sheet of tin ♦ spirit of tin ♦ strap on tin ♦ stream tin ♦ tin anniversary ♦ tin bowl ♦ tin box ♦ tin can ♦ Tin Compounds ♦ tin cry ♦ tin disease ♦ tin ethyl etiopurpurin ♦ tin fish ♦ Tin Fluorides ♦ tin foil ♦ Tin frame ♦ tin god ♦ tin hat ♦ tin jubilee ♦ Tin liquor ♦ tin lizzie ♦ tin loaf ♦ tin metal held ♦ tin mine ♦ Tin mordant ♦ tin of herrings ♦ tin opener ♦ tin pan alley ♦ Tin penny ♦ tin pest ♦ tin plague ♦ tin plate ♦ tin plated ♦ Tin Polyphosphates ♦ tin pyrites ♦ Tin Radioisotopes ♦ tin Sn 117m DTPA ♦ tin solder ♦ tin soldier ♦ tin sweat ♦ tin tack ♦ tin vessel ♦ tin wedding ♦ tin whistle ♦ vacuum tin ♦ wood tin. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tin": tin-based, tin-bashers, tin-bearing, tin-bronze, tin-can, tin-coat, tin-coloured, tin-cupping, tin-dipped, tin-eared, tin-foil, tin-free, tin-glazed, tin-hatted, tin-helmeted, tin-in-concentrates, tin-lurky, Tin-man, tin-miner, tin-miners, tin-mining, tin-opener, tin-openers, tin-opening, Tin-pan, tin-plate, tin-plating, tin-pot, tin-prospecting, tin-roof, tin-roofed, tin-smith, tin-snips, tin-stone, tin-streaming, tin-suited, tin-tacks, tin-teapot, tin-tin, tin-topped, tin-tungsten, tin-ware, tin-whistle, tin-workers. | |
Ending with "tin": biscuit-tin, high-tin, mess-tin. | |
Containing "tin": copper-tin-phosphorus, kettle-out-of-tin-can-makers. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
tin | 530 | punched tin | 52 |
tin ceiling | 387 | the tin angel | 50 |
tin sign | 287 | yugioh tin | 46 |
tin plating | 166 | tin metal | 46 |
tin ceiling tile | 150 | tin pail | 43 |
cat on a hot tin roof | 134 | tin pan alley | 42 |
one tin soldier | 119 | gift tin | 42 |
tin roof | 115 | antique tin | 41 |
tin cup | 112 | decorative tin | 40 |
tin whistle | 97 | cookie tin | 40 |
rin tin tin | 97 | nam tin tuc viet | 39 |
tin toy | 85 | tin drum | 39 |
tin can | 80 | lyrics one soldier tin | 39 |
tin roofing | 78 | tin with mint | 39 |
tin man | 74 | tin soldier | 37 |
tin box | 72 | popcorn tin | 37 |
tin tan | 60 | tin plate | 36 |
tin container | 60 | tin beer sign | 35 |
tin tin out | 60 | collectible tin | 35 |
tin star | 59 | tin can sailor | 33 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "tin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | blik (can, tin can). (various references) | |
Albanian | teneqe (bin, tin plate, tin vessel), prej kallaji, mbuloj me kallaj, kuti teneqeje (can), kuti konservash, konservoj (bottle, can, conserve, cure, preserve), kanaçe, kallajis (tin plate, tinker), kallaj, i pavlefshëm (dime, non-effective, null, priceless, uncritical, useless, void, worthless), i parëndësishëm (dispensable, exiguous, immaterial, inconsequential, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, one horse, paltry, petty, piddling, puny, small, small time, tenuous, trivial, unessential, unimportant), artificial (artful, artificial, camp, cultured, factitious, false, made, meretricious, pinchbeck, simulated, synthetic, synthetical, unnatural). (various references) | |
Arabic | قصدير, قصدر, علبة طعام محفوظ, علبة صفيحية, علب (can, preserve, put up), طلى بالقصدير, صفيح (tinplate), بيض بالقصدير. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | слагам в консервена кутия, тенеке (terne-plate, tin can), тенекия, тенекиена кутия (canakin, canikin, cannikin, tin can), тенекиен (tinny), консервена кутия, консервирам (can, conserve, cure, pack, pot, preserve, process, put down, put up, salt down), калайдисвам (tin plate, tinker), калай (roasting), калаен (stannic), ламарина (sheet iron), бяло тенеке, пари (cash, chink, currency, dough, dross, dust, funds, kale, loot, money, needful, pelf, pile, pocket, purse, ready, rhino, scratch, shiners, smart, splosh, stuff, vapor, vapour, wad, wampum). (various references) | |
Catalan | obrellaunes (can opener, tin-opener). (various references) | |
Chinese | 錫 , 锡 (SN, tinny), 罐頭 (can). (various references) | |
Czech | plechovka (can, canister), konzerva (can). (various references) | |
Danish | tin, blik (look, sheet metal, tin plate). (various references) | |
Dutch | tin, blikken (consider, deem, look, regard, sheet metal, tin plate, view, watch), blikje (can, tin can), blik (can, look, sheet metal, shovel, tin can, tin plate). (various references) | |
Esperanto | stano, stana, ladskatolo (can, tin can), lado (sheet metal, tin plate), lada (sheet metal, tin plate). (various references) | |
Faeroese | tin, pláta (layer, sheet metal, tin plate), blikkpláta (sheet metal, tin plate). (various references) | |
Farsi | قلع , قو<=>, حلبی (Tinfoil), حلب کردن , حلب , سفیدکردن (Bleach, Whiten), درحلب یاقوطی ریختن , باقلع یاحلبی پوشاندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | tina, tölkki (can, jar, pot). (various references) | |
French | étain, fer-blanc (tin plate), boîte, étamer (to tin). (various references) | |
Frisian | blykje (can, tin can). (various references) | |
German | Zinn (pewter, pewterware), Dose (bowl, box, can, canister, compact, dish, jar, socket), verzinnen (tin plating, tinning), Konservenbüchse (can), blechdose (can, tin can), blechbüchse (can), Blech (baking tray, brass, car body, crap, gongs, metal plate, plate, rubbish, sheet, sheet metal, tin plate, trash). (various references) | |
Greek | κονσέρβα (can), κασσίτερος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לצפות בבדיל, פחית (can, depreciable, shim, tin can), בדיל. (various references) | |
Hungarian | ón, konzervdoboz (can, tin can, tin canister). (various references) | |
Icelandic | tin. (various references) | |
Indonesian | perak (bullion, silver), kaleng (can, container). (various references) | |
Irish | stÚn. (various references) | |
Italian | stagno (mere, pond, pool, slew, slue, watertight), latta (sheet, sheet metal, tin plate), scatola (box, can, canister, case, chest), barattolo (caddy, can, gallipot, jar). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 錫 , 缶 (can). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すず (bell), かん (admiration, advise, appearance, best, building, can, cap, casket, coffin, cold season, coldest days of the year, crown, designating, diadem, emotion, emperor, encourage, farewell, feeling, first, free time, guesthouse, hall, heaven, hotel, house, impression, initiating on coming of age, inn, intuition, just, kan, leave, leisure, letter, look, love of peace, midwinter, naming, nerves, offer, peerless, perception, pipe, recommend, reel, right, sensation, spare time, spectacle, strong, temper, the sixth sense, top character radical, trunk, tube, volume, warship, writing brush). (various references) | |
Korean | 주석. (various references) | |
Manx | stainney (can, tin-plate), stainnaghey (can, canning, tinning, tin-plate), cur brat stainnagh er. (various references) | |
Mohawk | karihstakenra. (various references) | |
Norwegian | blikk (can, glance, glare, look, tin can). (various references) | |
Papiamen | bleki (can, tin can). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | estanho (plater), lata (can, canister, espalier, sheet metal, tin can, tin-plate). (various references) | |
Romanian | tinichea (sheet, tin plate), tablã (backgammon, blackboard, board, sheet, slab, slate, tray), staniu, spoi (gild, silver, varnish, veneer, whiten, whitewash), gologan (doit, dust, farthing), cutie de conserve (can, tins), cositori (blanch, tinker), cositor, conserva alimente în cutii. (various references) | |
Romany | archich. (various references) | |
Russian | оловянный (stannic, tinny), оловянная посуда (tinware), олово, жестянка (canakin, canikin, cannikin), жестяной (tin-plate), лудить банка;олово;жесть жестяной, лудить (tin plate, tinker), белая жесть, ба (battery, pool, priest, ram, vessel), покрывать оловом, поддельный (bogus, counterfeit, dud, dummy, factitious, forged, imitative, mock, phoney, pinchbeck, pretended, queer, shoddy, spurious, supposititious, unreal), подделывать (counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, fake, forge, tamper). (various references) | |
Scottish | staoin (juniper, laziness, pewter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plehan, limen, lim (sheet metal), konzervirati (can, conserve, cure, preserve), konzerva (can, conserve), kalajni (tinny), kalajisati, kalaj (pewter). (various references) | |
Spanish | lata (bind, can, canister, drag, fag, nuisance, pest, pill, tin can), estaño (pewter), hojalata (sheet metal, tin plate), bote (boat, bounce, bound, can, canister, dinghy, jackpot, kitty, launch, pot, thrust). (various references) | |
Swahili | kifungua kopo (can opener, tin-opener). (various references) | |
Swedish | tenn (pewter), konservburk (can, preserve-tin), burk (can, gallipot, jar, pot), bleckburk (tin can). (various references) | |
Tagalog | láta. (various references) | |
Tahitian | punu. (various references) | |
Thai | เคลือบด้วยดีบุก, บรรจุกระป๋อง (can), กระป๋อง (can), ซึ่งทำด้วยแผ่นดีบุก, ดีบุก, ภาชนะที่ทำจากดีบุก. (various references) | |
Turkish | kalay (stann-, stannic, stannous). (various references) | |
Turkmen | galaяy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | консервуватися, консервувати (can, conserve, cure, pack, preserve), олов'яний (stannic), олово, лудити (plate), біла жерсть, бляшанка (can, cannikin), бляшаний. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thiếc sắt tây, giấy thiếc hộp thiếc. (various references) | |
Welsh | ystaen (blur), alcam. (various references) | |
Yucatec | laataa (can, tin can). (various references) | |
Zulu | ithini (can, tin can), ilithini (can, tin can). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | an-na. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | plumbum album. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | stannum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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