TINFOIL

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 I. (noun) 

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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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