tin – English noun declension

English noun forms of tin

Noun: tin
Singulartin
Pluraltins

Sample Sentences

  • The roof was made of tin, which had been cut with tin snips.
  • a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish
  • Several tins of paint were needed to paint the house.
  • empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.
  • When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line. [1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:]
  • muffin tin
  • roasting tin
  • baking tin
  • And, indeed, after a tense round of rolling, shaping and filling delicate pastry dough, Rowan can’t even pull his overstuffed pies out of the tins without them bleeding and oozing fruit filling. [2023 October 28, Ashlie D. Stevens, ““Great British Bake Off” shocks viewers with a dramatic double-elimination round”, in Salon:]
  • The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know [1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby:]
  • When all your tin is gone and spent, / And you've not a mag for bread or rent [1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:]

Etymology

From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną. See: Old English Nouns 'tin'.

Verbs referencing "tin"

German Nouns Zinn.