Tinman

Quick meaning: Tinman is a noun meaning A maker of tinware; a tinsmith.

Meaning

A maker of tinware; a tinsmith.

More Meanings

1. A dealer in tinware.
2. An uncaring or heartless man; a man lacking, or seeming to lack, feelings, emotions, or concern for others.
3. (genetics) A master gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart.

Example Sentences

But if there are gipsies or tinmen about we shall have to keep our eyes open after anything they can lay their hands on.

Tinman belongs to a special class of genes. [...] But some genes make proteins that control other genes. Some act like master switches, triggering many different genes to work together to build a structure. Tinman is one such “master gene” for the fruit fly.

He seemed to feel quite at home at the tinman's, although they were hammering and tapping away there all day, but people said that the gudewife put a dish of porridge up in the garret for him every Thursday evening; and it's no wonder that they got on well and became rich when they had a brownie in the house.

Word Forms

• tinmen

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tinsmith, toolsmith, tinker, tintyper, pansmith, toolmaker.

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