tin

A closed metal container for keeping food, liquids, or other substances.

• Open a tin of beans.
• She keeps buttons in an old tobacco tin.
• How many tins of fish did you buy?

How to use it: tin of something (We opened a tin of soup.)

Similar words: can

Common phrases: tin of beans, tobacco tin, open a tin

A soft, silver-colored metal used to cover other metals and to make mixtures of metals.

• The cup is made of tin.
• Tin is mixed with copper to make bronze.
• A thin layer of tin protects the steel.

Common phrases: pure tin, tin coating, tin ore

A metal container used to hold food or to cook it in an oven.

• Put the mixture in a tin.
• She greased two cake tins.
• Leave the cake in its tin until it cools.

Similar words: pan, container

Common phrases: cake tin, muffin tin, baking tin

Thin iron or steel sheets covered with a protective layer of a soft silver-colored metal.

• Rain beat against the tin roof.
• They cut the tin with special tools.
• Sheets of tin covered the old shed.

Similar words: tinplate

Common phrases: tin roof, tin sheets, tin snips

To cover a surface with a thin layer of a soft silver-colored metal.

• Tin the wire before joining it.
• The worker tinned the copper sheet.
• You should tin the tip of the soldering iron.

Common phrases: tin copper wire, tin the surface, tin the tip