| 单词 |
tinned |
| 释义 |
tinned, ppl. a.|tɪnd|
[f. tin n. or v. + -ed.]
1. Coated or plated with tin.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 392 A pilere That was of tynned yren clere. 14..MS. Sloane 2463 lf. 159 b, Boile hit eftesones in a tynned panne. 1533MS. Rawl. D. 776 A payer of Jemews for the same Dore..ffor Tynned naylles ffor the same Jemewes. 1691Patent Specif. (1856) No. 282. 1 Iron plates tinned over comonly called tinned plates. 1831M. Russell Egypt x. (1853) 420 A small chafing dish of tinned copper. 1839Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 361/2 Manufacturer of zinc and of tinned iron.
2. a. Preserved in air-tight tins; canned. tinned dog (Austral. slang), canned meat.
1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 100 When live turtle is dear, many cooks use the tinned turtle. 1879Echo 18 Oct. 1/5 The trade in tinned food is enormous, and is constantly on the increase. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 371 Cooked and tinned Salmon. 1895E. R. Suffling Land of Broads 19 Try a tinned pineapple. 1895Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Aug. 27 We gave him some ‘tinned dorg’ and a drink. 1950G. Casey City of Men 326 We'll be living in a tent and eating tinned dog. It's no place for a woman.
b. tinned air, air supplied by an artificial ventilation system (Naut. slang); also (chiefly joc.) air sealed in a tin for sale.
1913Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1912 635 The fresh air driven in by fans through the metal conduits..is spoken of by the officers [in the battleship]..as ‘tinned’ or ‘potted’ air. 1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 142 Tinned air, artificial ventilation. 1962Daily Tel. 12 Dec. 13/3, I shouldn't think even the American who bought Brooklyn Bridge would fall for tinned air as a serious buy.
c. Of music: = canned ppl. a. b. Cf. potted ppl. a. 3 b.
1924J. Reith in Radio Times 23 May 1/3 The sound is metallic and unsatisfying, and..we do not like our music tinned. a1976A. Christie Autobiogr. (1977) iv. v. 196 There was..no ‘tinned’ music in those days: no broadcasting, no tape-recorders, no stereophonic gramophones.
3. Baked in a tin.
1890Stroud Judicial Dict. 310 Tinned Loaves, made crusty all round..is not ‘French or Fancy Bread’. |
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