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TINFOIL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Foil made of tin or an alloy of tin and lead
Synonyms:
tin foil; tinfoil
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("tinfoil" is a kind of...):
foil (a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal)
Meronyms (substance of "tinfoil"):
atomic number 50; Sn; tin (a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide)
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