I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cake tin British English , a cake pan American English (= that you bake a cake in )
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Use a 20 cm cake tin.
a can/tin/pot of paint
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He had spilt a can of paint on the floor.
cake tin
tin opener
tin whistle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
empty
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Most of them looked as if they had been moulded in empty cat food tins .
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She thrust the empty tin under our noses.
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There were dozens of empty tins too, soup and baked beans, all mixed together with dozens of mouldy bread wrappers.
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A sack of empty tins lay beside each aircraft: accumulated cookhouse waste.
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It was soon ablaze, with the empty tin and rubber gloves buried deep in its midst.
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The infantry tied empty tins to the wire to act as alarm bells, but they were only ever sounded by rats.
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Another little group lines up with empty tin cans by the single water truck, waiting for the daily ration.
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When it rained, the water would drop off the wire into the empty tins below.
large
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He had bought three large tins of pilchards.
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A large tin tub housed chunks of ice-sheltered beer.
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But, before he could say anything, Mrs Danby emerged from round a large pile of tins of tuna-fish.
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Patsy thought there ought to be a large tin in every home.
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Trim spare ribs of any excess fat, then place in a large roasting tin .
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On the piano was a large tin of Duraglit.
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In his hands was a large tin .
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Underneath the sink he found a large tin of rat poison.
little
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The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
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A little bitty tin bell, two, maybe three feet high.
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Paul D never worried about his little tobacco tin anymore.
old
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On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
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Henry was rooting about among some old biscuit tins in the pantry when the phone rang in the hall.
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Mr Wood helped him into the kitchen while Mrs Wood filled an old tin bath with warm water.
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Half a dozen silent men and women sat around smoking: old tins served as ashtrays.
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She wedged their magazines between old paint tins and imperfectly washed milk bottles and towers of flowerpots, and crept away.
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It was an old tin steamer trunk, its corners reinforced with iron shoes.
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An old paint tin , a burst packet of sheep dip.
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Each had a balcony at first-floor level on which geraniums bloomed in old tins .
prepared
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Use to line the prepared quiche tins . 3.
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Fold in the lemon juice and zest. 4 Pour into the prepared cake tin and smooth the top level.
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Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes or until the sponge is springy to the touch.
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Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and tilt the tin to level the mixture.
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Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and press down with the back of a metal spoon.
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Turn into the prepared cake tin and smooth the top.
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Pour into the prepared tins and bake immediately, for 20-25min or until the cakes are cooked. 5.
roasting
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Cook in the oven for 20 minutes, then pour away as much fat as possible from the roasting tin .
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The Vision even comes with two baking sheets and an vitreous enamelled roasting tin and trivet.
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Trim spare ribs of any excess fat, then place in a large roasting tin .
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Transfer to a roasting tin and bake for 30 minutes until crispy. 3.
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Weight the bird; transfer to a rack in a roasting tin and cover with aluminium foil.
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Then skim off the fat, pour the juices back into the roasting tin and bubble them up.
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Place the duck on a rack in a roasting tin .
round
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Stone was carrying two steaming mugs on a round tin tray.
small
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YOu have to buy the very smallest amounts, like small tins .
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Many people think of herbs primarily as something you; find in a small tin rather than in the backyard garden..
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Mustard came in a small tin and you mixed it with water.
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It was a small , battered tin money-box.
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He snapped shut a file on his desk, reached for his briefcase and extracted the small tin of vaseline.
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Cube and rub in margarine. 2 Press into a small tin .
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Potato crisps. Small tin of garden peas.
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Obviously it is not practical to have large bar codes on small products such as tins of peas.
square
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These were very simple devices two small paraffin burners in square tins which gave a modest flame.
■ NOUN
bath
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On Saturday evenings everybody in the family had a bath one after another in an old tin bath in front of the fire.
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Every Monday Mrs Evans washed all the family's clothes in the tin bath .
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Mr Wood helped him into the kitchen while Mrs Wood filled an old tin bath with warm water.
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Swilled quickly in a tin bath , it hung over the nurse's hand like a wet sock.
biscuit
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And as for that little Crispin, when he comes here he never has his hand out of the biscuit tin .
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Thérèse clasped the biscuit tin in the crook of her arm.
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During the afternoon he'd made a small quantity of Recipe 179 - enough to fill three biscuit tins .
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Fill the glass with water, then place the biscuit tin lid over it, lip uppermost.
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Going to the kitchen window, the biscuit tin still in her hands, she saw an extraordinary sight.
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The biscuit tin supported the open recipe book.
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Henry was rooting about among some old biscuit tins in the pantry when the phone rang in the hall.
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Jars of boiled sweets, rusks, biscuit tins and chocolate boxes are on view.
box
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The top right-hand drawer of the desk contained the traditional little tin box and a pistol.
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There was a scrape as she brought a taper forth from a tin box and leaned towards the fire to light it.
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Its best-selling model is the Kijang, a tin box developed through a joint venture with Toyota.
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She scrambled the piece of paper back into its sugar-and-vanilla-scented tin box .
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She took out the tin box of letters and carried it back with her into the kitchen.
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The head was then pickled in a ten-foot long tin box , and the rotting body returned to the ocean.
cake
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Victorine balanced the cake tin on the palm of her outstretched hand and frowned at it.
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She lifts a cake tin out of her tote bag.
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Pour into a 7in round cake tin . 2.
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Fold in the lemon juice and zest. 4 Pour into the prepared cake tin and smooth the top level.
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There are plenty of cake tins in this month's equipment feature on page 68 to inspire creative cake baking.
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I've got all her cake tins and her chopping board, which still smells very evocatively of her wonderful Wienerschnitzel.
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There were a number of cake tins and Melanie opened one and found last night's currant cake.
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Spread half the cake mixture into a greased and lined cake tin .
can
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Their planking was patched with corrugated iron, their roofs shingled with flattened tin cans .
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The fence was sheltered on three sides by a screen of scrap lumber and flattened tin cans .
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He recalls building himself private altars of chocolate wrappers and tin cans .
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And the coffee is terrible, always being reheated from the bottom of a tin can .
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Bottle tops, silver paper and tin cans are the last things you should throw away.
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And looking like a big tin can , about to be crumpled up.
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In this bin is placed tin cans , washed and flattened, hard plastics and glass bottles.
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Another little group lines up with empty tin cans by the single water truck, waiting for the daily ration.
ear
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He also had, the article conveys, a tin ear for the ordinary man.
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Labour's tin ear for liberty is matched by its deafness to democracy.
foil
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They put on tin foil hats and spoke an incomprehensible vernacular.
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They carry with them covered dishes, salad bowls, and platters covered with tin foil .
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He lost three stones in weight and had to be wrapped in tin foil in hospital because of heat loss.
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Because, for us, tin foil cups house more than custards.
loaf
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Pour into a loaf tin and bake at 350°C for about 1 hour or until cooked right through.
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Rinse a loaf tin with cold water and stand it in a dish surrounded by ice cubes.
mess
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From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe, he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit.
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We finished our soup and swilled out the mess tins with water from the jerry-can.
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The mess tin went back into the cupboard.
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Each man got a mug of lime juice and water, and a mess tin of dates.
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Some one brought me a mess tin half full of very hot tea; it tasted good.
mine
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He invented the Cornish engine, a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions used mainly for pumping water out of tin mines .
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Why were most of the tin mines in Cornwall closed earlier this century?
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The expanding copper and tin mines of west Cornwall depended on mule trains until the second quarter of the nineteenth century.
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Producing tin mine with co-product zinc and by-product copper and silver.
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In the late nineteenth century a succession of small lines had been built to connect the Malayan tin mines to the coast.
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At one time there were 400 tin mines in Cornwall alone.
mining
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The driver swears but brakes as yet another tin mining family climb aboard the truck already bulging with people and their belongings.
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The new industries A. Earlier this century tin mining declined.
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This was given nine months before the bank collapsed and financed Gasco's takeover of Cornish tin mining company St Piran.
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From the early period of tin mining to the 1940s women were often concentrators of minerals.
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The reclamation venture provides just one example of the resourcefulness which engineers have to display to succeed in tin mining in Cornwall.
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Professional Cornishman who resigned the Tory whip in protest at tin mining closures, but was too loyal to tell anyone.
opener
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He may need special implements, such as a wall-mounted tin opener which he can operate with one hand.
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The little gear lever feels like a tin opener on a string of cables.
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For example, this graph shows sales of tin openers from January to June.
oxide
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The waste contains tin oxide , in proportions too minute for last century's miners to recover.
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Flotation is important in separating particles of tin oxide less than about 40 micrometres in diameter.
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The chemicals have to be carefully selected so that they affect only the tin oxide and nothing else.
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Into these flowed more molten rock, carrying minerals such as tin oxide .
plate
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Many specialist tins are made from tin plate or aluminium.
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Blindly, I opened a cupboard door, but all I found were tin plates .
roof
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The house we were in was solid Victorian in style, both inside and out, except that it had a tin roof .
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I was rescued momentarily by the first drops of rain, pinging on the tin roof above us.
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In the night a ferocious hail-storm rattles on the tin roof .
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It was easy duty: all paperwork, no humping, a tin roof over his head.
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The tin roof of the verandah is home to all sorts of creatures.
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Wooden posts supported a tin roof Most people at Holy Trinity had dined in more gracious picnic shelters.
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I have a tin roof instead of bamboo.
tobacco
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Paul D never worried about his little tobacco tin anymore.
tray
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She scooped up coffee-pot, bread-basket, jam-pots, Camembert, on to the tin tray , and made for the door.
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Pots and tin trays were clanging over the whirr of dishwashers; the tables smelled sweet and oily.
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Punters throw coins, trying to score a hit in the tin trays .
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Stone was carrying two steaming mugs on a round tin tray .
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She had promptly dropped her tin tray and her shrill shrieks began to split the crisp winter air.
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An electric kettle, plugged into the wall, steamed on a tin tray , surrounded by waiting cups.
trunk
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Did I mention, I discovered a dozen rolls of the original wallpaper in a tin trunk in the attic?
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Bread is baked every day in a tin trunk and all food is cooked over an open fire.
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An enormous tin trunk was brought down from the attic, and systematically packed with everything needed for a month's holiday.
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Keeps them in a tin trunk in his pillbox.
whistle
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The older man plays an accordion, and the younger one plays a tin whistle in the musical interlude.
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She might as well have had a tin whistle buried in that neck of hers.
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I walked up to one young guy in full get-up playing the tin whistle near the Harness and Saddle maker store.
■ VERB
carry
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A few minutes later she returned with Ben, who was carrying a tin bowl of water.
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Into these flowed more molten rock, carrying minerals such as tin oxide.
cool
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Leave to cool in the tin , but before it is completely cold cut into small neat wedges.
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Leave to cool slightly in the tin before turning out and transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
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Leave cakes to cool in tins , then turn out and store, wrapped in fresh greaseproof paper and foil.
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Tip: Do not overcook cake as it will dry out while cooling in tin .
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Remove from oven and leave to cool in tin for 5 minutes.
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Leave to cool in the tin .
fill
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During the afternoon he'd made a small quantity of Recipe 179 - enough to fill three biscuit tins .
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Bathtime meant filling a hot tin tub from kettles.
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Mr Wood helped him into the kitchen while Mrs Wood filled an old tin bath with warm water.
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You simply fill a leaky tin with water, and hang it from a tree.
hold
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She held the open tin under my nose: tuna - oh boy.
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His monkey skipped and pulled on its lead and held out a tin cup to the crowd.
keep
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Tin plate is cheaper and quite durable, but keeping tin rust-free does pose problems.
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He saves all his coppers and keeps them in his tin .
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They should be either burnt or laid out flat to dry, or kept in an airtight tin .
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The cake keeps well in a tin or tightly wrapped in foil and should be served sliced, buttered or with jam.
put
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They each put money into a tin and moved on.
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They put on tin foil hats and spoke an incomprehensible vernacular.
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Willie watched him in horror as he picked up the wriggling worms and put them inside the tin .
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That put the tin lid on it as far as Patrick Kelly was concerned.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a tin of Christmas cookies
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A machine separates the tin from paper and plastic in the trash.
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a muffin tin
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All I wanted was a tin of paint.
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I am a Woodman, and made of tin .
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Less than half an hour later she cleaned the brush in white spirit and pressed the lid of the tin noiselessly down.
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The alluvial tin , from the Malayan river gravels, is almost exhausted.
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They carry with them covered dishes, salad bowls, and platters covered with tin foil.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a tin cup
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He says when they started they had to improvise and some of the lights on the stage were just tin boxes.