Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A type of paper-thin tin plate.
- noun Tinfoil used as a backing for mirrors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thin plate; a tagger; tin-foil for mirrors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Thin
tin plate - noun obsolete Tin foil for
mirrors .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The essence of Whacky Br*tain is that a knife is a tool for a form of free expression that is misunderstood by the population at large and the reactionary media, and police officers merely the nasty men and women who seek to deny Br*tain’s troubled youth that avenue for the inner self.
You Couldn’t Make It Up. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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Also called the tain proper cell metabolism and tissue health. levels in blueberries are particularly high.
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But the Kuklos ought to train 'em better, you know; 'tain't natural not to stare when a lunatic cuts loose in public.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Yet 'tain't being dead -- it's my awful dread of the icy grave that pains;
literature 2007
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Bo weevil told the farmer that "I 'tain't got ticket fare",
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Jail house ain't no plaything, b'lieve me, 'tain't no lie
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Meanwhile, 'tain't fit night out for man nor beast.
The time is out of joint... jhetley 2006
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As for where you are moving-'tain't none of my bidnuss nohow!
lull, with schrapnel Holly 2006
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I wish I had a home I could really call my own to ask you to, but 'tain't never been so I could.
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But the Kuklos ought to train 'em better, you know; 'tain't natural not to stare when a lunatic cuts loose in public.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
knitandpurl commented on the word tain
"The sidewalks were gray and uneven, and the sky looked like a mirror without a tain, the place where everything should have been reflected but where, in the end, nothing was."
-"Meeting with Enrique Lihn" by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews, in the New Yorker, Dec 22 and 29, 2008, pp 80-81
December 22, 2008
rolig commented on the word tain
Nice citation - and what a great word! It was new to me.
December 22, 2008
bilby commented on the word tain
Also teyne.
January 12, 2016