The meaning of TIN is a soft faintly bluish-white lustrous low-melting crystalline metallic element with atomic number 50 that is malleable and ductile at ordinary temperatures and that is used especially …

Preserving & storing food (Definition of tinned from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

TINNED definition: coated or plated with tin. See examples of tinned used in a sentence.

/tɪnd/ /tɪnd/ IPA guide Definitions of tinned adjective sealed in a can or jar synonyms: canned

1. (Metallurgy) plated, coated, or treated with tin 2. (Cookery) chiefly Brit preserved or stored in airtight tins: tinned soup. 3. (Metallurgy) coated with a layer of solder

Definition of tinned adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Adjective tinned (not comparable) Coated, or plated with tin. Packed in a tin can; canned.

vb (tins, tinning, tinned) (transitive) to put (food, etc) into a tin or tins; preserve in a tin to plate or coat with tin to prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface …

Tinning is the process of thinly coating sheets of wrought iron or steel with tin, and the resulting product is known as tinplate.

Machinery, provisions, largely in the form of tinned and otherwise preserved food, and liquors, clothing, textiles and hardware, chemicals and dynamite, iron and steel work and timber, and jewelry are the …