tin
A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
Other meanings
Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.
An airtight container, made of tin-coated steel (called tinplate or tin), (formerly) tin, aluminium, 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”
A kind of
- metallic element
- carbon group element
Example sentences
Word history
From Old English "tin".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tin” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.