Tin vs Bin - What's the difference?
tin | bin |
(uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
(NZ, British, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.
(countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.
(countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
(slang, dated, uncountable) money
Made of tin.
Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
* 1939 , George Orwell, "Coming up for Air", London: Victor Gollancz.
To place into a tin in order to preserve.
To cover with tin.
To coat with solder in preparation for soldering.
A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
A container for rubbish or waste.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
, title= (statistics) Any of the discrete intervals in a histogram, etc.
To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin.
* 2008 , , Falling Sideways , Orbit books, ISBN 1-84149-110-1, p. 28:
To throw away, reject, give up.
* 2002 , Christopher Harvie, Scotland: A Short History , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-210054-8,
* 2005 , Ian Oliver, War and peace in the Balkans: the diplomacy of conflict in the former Yugoslavia , I.B. Tauris, ISBN 1-850438-89-7,
(label) To convert continuous data into discrete groups.
(label) To place into a bin for storage.
(lb) son of; equivalent to Hebrew .
In transitive terms the difference between tin and bin
is that tin is to coat with solder in preparation for soldering while bin is to place into a bin for storage.As an adjective tin
is made of tin.As an initialism TIN
is taxpayer Identification Number.As a contraction bin is
contraction of being.tin
English
(wikipedia tin)Noun
- muffin tin
- roasting tin
- (Beaconsfield)
Synonyms
* (airtight container) can (especially US), tin canDerived terms
* alpha tin * beta tin * gray tin, grey tin * indium tin oxide * lead-tin * organotin * tetraethyl tin, tetraethyltin * tetraphenyl tin, tetraphenyltin * tin bath * tin can * tin chloride * tin cry * tin dichloride * tin dioxide * tin disease * tin foil * tin Lizzie * tin man * tin oxide * tin pentachloride * tin pest * tin protochloride * tin salt * tin snips * tin tabernacle * tin tetrachloride * tin tetraethyl * tin tetraphenyl * tin-plate * tin-plated * tin-white cobalt * tinnie * tinny * tributyl tin, tributyltin * trimethyl tin, trimethyltin * (do) what it says on the tin * white tinAdjective
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- 133;] in 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.
Derived terms
* tin tabernacle * tin bathVerb
(tinn)Derived terms
* tinned dogSee also
* Babbitt metal * bronze * bell metal * cassiterite * die-casting alloy * pewter * phosphor bronze * soft solder * stann-, stanno- * stannane * stannary * stannate * stannic * stannide * stanniferous * stannified * stannine * stannite * stannolite * stannotype * stannous * stannum * white metalAnagrams
* English three-letter words ----bin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins . Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}
Synonyms
* (container) container, receptacle * (container for waste) dustbin, rubbish bin (both British), garbage can, trash can (both US)Verb
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