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# tin

«tin» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soft, silvery-white metal** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (tin; a tin, tins); adjective (tin)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Tin is a soft, silvery-white metal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#m1)

2) A tin is a metal container with a lid, for keeping food like biscuits or cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#m2)

3) In the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, a tin is a sealed metal can of food, like a tin of beans; Americans say «can». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#m3)

4) Tin can describe something made of thin metal, like a tin roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, tin is one of the metals; it does not rust easily and is used to coat steel cans, and mixed with copper it makes bronze. In history, the Bronze Age began when people learned to mix tin and copper. In everyday life, baking tins and biscuit tins are common, and tins go in the recycling. Phrases: «tin of beans», «baking tin», «tin foil», «tin can».

### examples

- Pass me a tin of tomatoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#x1)
- Grandma keeps biscuits in a round tin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#x2)
- Grease the cake tin before you pour the mix. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#x3)
- Bronze is made from copper and tin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#x4)
- Put the empty tins in the recycling bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#x5)
- Rain was drumming on the tin roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#x6)
- Be careful, the edge of an open tin is sharp. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#x7)
- The Tin Man wanted a heart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/#x8)

### note

Uncountable for the metal (made of tin); countable for the container (two tins). British «tin» = American «can» for food. «Tin foil» is usually made of aluminium today, not tin. Safety: the cut edge of an opened tin can cut fingers.

### In the corpora

- [Cartoons get a lot wrong: a bull does not hate the colour red, and a goat does not munch tin cans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/5/)
- [In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/17/)
- [After dinner you rinse a tin, flatten a cereal box and drop a bottle into the right bin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/32-recycling-second-life/0/)
- [Graters, peelers and the cut edge of a tin lid take skin off fingers very easily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/105-knives-kitchen-tools-and-cooking/7/)
- [The biscuit tin in Derby was empty.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/432-it-was-him-siblings-blaming-each-other/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «tin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.