tinplate

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

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noun

Countable; Uncountable

verb

"[...] 4,000 tons of slabs will be sent to the R.T.B. works at Ebbw Vale and a further 8,000 a week will be rolled at the new R.T.B. Newport Works and returned to the Steel Co. of Wales at Trostre and Llangyfelach in coil form for processing into tinplate."

Etymology tree English tin Vulgar Latin *platta Old French platebor. Middle English plate English plate English tinplate From tin + plate.

tinplates (plural) tinplates (present, singular) tinplating (participle, present) tinplated (participle, past) tinplated (past)

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What does tinplate mean?

Alternative spelling of tin plate.

Where does tinplate come from?

Etymology tree English tin Vulgar Latin *platta Old French platebor. Middle English plate English plate English tinplate From tin + plate.

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