Tin

[tɪn]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking.

(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.

(verb.) prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface.

(verb.) plate with tin.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.

(n.) Money.

(v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

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同義詞及近義詞：

n. [Colloquial.] Tin-plate, tinned iron, white iron.

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解釋/意思:

n. a silvery-white non-elastic easily fusible and malleable metal: (slang) money: a vessel of tin a can &c.—adj. made of tin.—v.t. to cover or overlay with tin or tinfoil: to pack in tins:—pr.p. tin′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. tinned.—ns. Tin′man Tin′ner a tinsmith; Tin′ning the art of coating with tin or of repairing tin-ware: the act of packing in tin cans for preservation.—adj. Tin′ny like tin.—n. a small vessel of tin.—ns. Tin′-plate thin sheet-iron coated with tin; Tin′-smith a manufacturer of tin vessels: a worker in tin: a dealer in tin-ware; Tin′-type a ferrotype; Tin′-ware articles made of tin.—ns.pl. Tin′witts dressed tin ore containing pyrites &c.; Tin′-works works for working tin.

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