tin work

Mira otros diccionarios:

• tin|work — «TIHN WURK», noun. work done in tin or with tin …   Useful english dictionary

• tin-vat — to tin work: see tin n. 5 …   Useful english dictionary

• Tin-glazed pottery — is pottery covered in glaze containing tin oxide which is white, shiny and opaque. (See tin glazing.) The pottery body is usually made of red or buff colored earthenware and the white glaze was often used to imitate Chinese porcelain. Tin glazed… …   Wikipedia

• Tin House — is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. The Tin House journal was conceived in the summer of 1998 by Portland publisher Win McCormack. He envisioned a journal that would be graphically… …   Wikipedia

• Tin bounds — were an ancient legal arrangement used in the counties of Devon and Cornwall in South West England to encourage the exploitation of land for the extraction of tin.Tin bounds were created by the miner (or bounder ) pitching stones or turves at the …   Wikipedia

• Tin — is a chemical element with the symbol Sn ( la. stannum) and atomic number 50. This silvery, malleable poor metal that is not easily oxidized in air and resists corrosion, is found in many alloys and is used to coat other metals to prevent… …   Wikipedia

• Tin can wall — Tin cans, although not a common building source, have been used for creating structures. They can be laid in concrete, stacked vertically on top of each other, and crushed or cut and flattened to be used as shingles [http://www.eco… …   Wikipedia

• Tin-glazing — is the process of giving ceramic items a tin based glaze which is white, shiny and opaque, normally applied to red or buff earthenware.The earliest tin glazed pottery appears to have been made in Iraq/Mesopotamia in the 9th century, the oldest… …   Wikipedia

• Tin Moe — U Tin Moe Born November 19, 1933(1933 11 19) Myingyan, Taungtha township Died January 22, 2007 Tin Moe (Burmese …   Wikipedia

• Tin snips — are tools used to cut thin sheet metal. There are two broad categories: tinner snips, which are similar to common scissors, and compound leverage aviation snips, which use a compound leverage handle system. There are two major types of aviation… …   Wikipedia

• Tin Pan Alley — noun uncount INFORMAL the people who write, produce, and play popular music, or the part of a city where they work …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English