Crossword-Solution: TIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Tin | 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. |
| Tin | n. | Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate. |
| Tin | n. | Money. |
| Tin | v. t. | To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| TIN | anagram | INT, ITN, NIT |
We have 940 clues for the answer “TIN”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "TIN"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Front part of the eye
?
C
?
O
?
R
?
N
?
E
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
CONEAR
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
28 +1
New Suggestion for "TIN"
Related word tools
Sentences with TIN (5)
The bed was tilted against the wall by day, and let down at 6:30, when it filled nearly half the room; and all the boys slept in it, except Michael, lying like sardines in a tin.
She ran into the house, put on a short skirt and a pair of her husband’s boots, caught up a tin pail and started for the orchard.
The mining and processing of coal, copper, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold account for a large part of industrial production.
Here, before his own wife has greeted him, you may greet the sea-flushed ship-master, just in port, with his vessel’s papers under his arm in a tarnished tin box.
Contrasting vividly with this ruin was the neat dresser, stained in the fashion, pale green, and with a number of copper and tin vessels below it, the wallpaper imitating blue and white tiles, and a couple of coloured supplements fluttering from the walls above the kitchen range.
Quotes with TIN (3)
I remember being scared that something must, surely, go wrong, if we were this happy, her and me, in the early days, when our love was settling into the shape of our lives like cake mixture reaching the corners of the tin as it swells and bakes.
The Perfectionist pushed Tom onto her bed. She took off his shirt. She took off his shoes and his socks. She took off his pants. She took off his boxers. With most guys the Perfectionist would stop there. She didn’t. She was still feeling reckless. She took off his skin. She took off his nervous system. She lifted up his rib cage. His heart beat in her hand. And there, underneath it, she found a rusted tin box. She opened it. Inside she found his hopes, his dreams and his fea…
For it would be only for a time. Until what he knew and thought became no longer relevant or necessary and was forgotten. But that was the same with all of us. We were only what we were for a time, at that time. Then our own silver began to mix with the tin of our future to change us. I knew this to be so and grieved for Windlow while I grieved for me. In time I would not be this Peter, even as I now was not the peter of two years ago.... Yet that Peter was not lost.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,200 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).