tin

CEFRB1

/tɪn/

noun

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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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.
Iron or steel sheet metal that is coated with tin as an anticorrosion protectant.
A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.

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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
[I]n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab[ernacle] - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that.
1939, George Orwell, Coming up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz
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
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

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From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.