a soft, silver-white, crystalline, metallic chemical element, malleable at ordinary temperatures, capable of a high polish, and used as an alloy in tin foils, solders, utensils, type metals, superconducting magnets, etc. and in making tin plate; Tin; (Sn).

a thin sheet of iron or steel plated with tin; a tin plate.

a box made of tin plates.

(jumping, leaping, attacking etc.) immediately; at once.

a unit of various weights as a) 2,240 lb avoirdupois (1016.05 kg); long ton; b) 2,000 lb avoirdupois (907.19 kg); short ton; c) 1,000 kilograms (2,204.62 lb); metric ton.