tin

tin is a 3-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
2. noun. Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
3. noun. Money.
4. transitive verb. To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.
5. noun. airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.

   Synonyms: can

6. noun. metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour

   Synonyms: canister, cannister

7. noun. a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking
8. noun. a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide

   Synonyms: sn

9. verb. prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
10. verb. preserve in a can or tin

    "tinned foods are not very tasty"

    Synonyms: can

11. verb. plate with tin

Synonyms

can, canister, cannister, sn

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tin:

int, nit

Common word forms

tins, tined, tines, tinful, tining, tinned, tinner, tinning

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