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tinplate

tinplate is the alternative spelling of tin plate.

tinplate is the alternative spelling of tin-plate.

Meaning of tin plate

Noun

tin plate (countable and uncountable, plural tin plates)

  1. A thin sheet of steel coated with tin to prevent rusting; used to make cans, roofing, etc.
    Synonyms:
    tin

Meaning of tin-plate

Verb

tin-plate (third-person singular simple present tin-plates, present participle tin-plating, simple past and past participle tin-plated)

  1. (transitive) To coat (something, especially steel sheet) with tin, either by dipping or electroplating.

Forms of tinplate

Noun
pluraltinplates
Verb
third-person singular presenttinplates
present participletinplating
past participletinplated
pasttinplated

Origin of tinplate

From tin + plate.

Questions about tinplate

What is tinplate the alternative spelling of?
Tinplate is the alternative spelling of tin plate.

Words near tinplate in the dictionary

  1. tinosporaside
  2. tinosporide
  3. Tinotungan
  4. Tinowaran
  5. Tinpak
  6. tinplate
  7. tinplated
  8. tinplater
  9. tinplaters
  10. tinplates
  11. tinplating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tinplate (page history and authors); tin plate (page history and authors); tin-plate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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