Instinct vs Tin - What's the difference?
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A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book
, year=1921
, title=
, author=Bertrand Russell
, passage=In spite of these qualifications, the broad distinction between instinct and habit is undeniable. To take extreme cases, every animal at birth can take food by instinct, before it has had opportunity to learn; on the other hand, no one can ride a bicycle by instinct, though, after learning, the necessary movements become just as automatic as if they were instinctive.}}
An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.
(archaic) Imbued, charged ((with) something).
* Milton
* Brougham
* 1928 , (HP Lovecraft), ‘The Call of Cthulhu’:
(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.
As nouns the difference between instinct and tin
is that instinct is a natural or inherent impulse or behaviour while tin is a malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.As adjectives the difference between instinct and tin
is that instinct is imbued, charged ({{term|with}} something) while tin is made of tin.As a verb tin is
to place into a tin in order to preserve.As an initialism TIN is
taxpayer Identification Number.instinct
English
(wikipedia instinct)Noun
- Many animals fear fire by instinct .
- By a divine instinct , men's minds mistrust / Ensuing dangers.
- an instinct''' for order; to be modest by '''instinct
- Debbie's instinct was to distrust John.
Derived terms
* instinctively * instinctiveAdjective
(en adjective)- The chariot of paternal deity / Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed / By four cherubic shapes.
- a noble performance, instinct with sound principle
- This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters.
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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.
