Usually means: Metallic element used in alloys.
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We found 71 dictionaries that define the word tin:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. tin: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. TIN, tin: Merriam-Webster
  3. tin, tin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tin: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tin: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tin, Tin, ti'n, tin: Wordnik
  8. tin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. TIN, tin: Wiktionary
  10. tin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. TIN: Dictionary.com
  14. tin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. TIN (disambiguation), TIN, TiN, Tin (disambiguation), Tin (newsreader), Tin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tin: Rhymezone
  20. tin, tin (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. TIN: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Tin (of food): Britih-American Dictionary
  24. TIN, TiN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  25. Tin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  26. tin: FreeDictionary.org
  27. tin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  28. tin: TheFreeDictionary.com
  29. tin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tin: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. tin-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIN: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)
  4. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  5. TIN, Tin (element): Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tin: CCI Computer
  2. Tin (element), tin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tin: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Tin (element), tin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. tin: Eastern Tea
  4. TIN: Acronym Finder
  5. TIN: Three Letter Words with definitions
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. tin: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tin: Easton Bible
  2. Tin: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. TIN: The Mineral Gallery
  3. Tin: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. TIN: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  5. tin: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements
  6. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tin, tin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tin: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Tin: Urban Dictionary
  4. Tin: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tin: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. TIN: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Tin: Glossary of Mining Terms

(Note: See tinful as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
noun:  (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, British, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
noun:  (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
noun:  (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
noun:  (slang, dated, uncountable) money, especially silver money.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.
adjective:  Made of tin.
adjective:  Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
verb:  (transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with tin.
verb:  (transitive) To coat with solder
verb:  To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
verb:  To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire
noun:  (US, Philippines, finance) Initialism of taxpayer identification number.

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