What's the difference between pinner and tinner?

Pinner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, pins or fastens, as with pins.
  • (n.) A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
  • (n.) An apron with a bib; a pinafore.
  • (n.) A cloth band for a gown.
  • (n.) A pin maker.
  • (n.) One who pins or impounds cattle. See Pin, v. t.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Josh Berle Pinner, London • Empty homes are found thoughout central London , not just "Billionaires Row".
  • (2) Although registered to an office in Pinner, north-west London, How To Corp products and services are priced in US dollars, and in its marketing materials How To Corp claims to have an office in the United States and lists US phone and fax numbers.
  • (3) Even as Westminster reeled from the news of Jeremy Corbyn’s thumping victory on Saturday, Nick Hurd, the Tory MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, tweeted his congratulations to the new Labour leader.
  • (4) It is now time for the Tories to abandon their unjustified fixation with free schools, which are evidently not addressing the growing pressure on school places nor driving up standards, and once and for all put the urgent need for sufficient good school places in every local area first.” Ann Lyons, a headteacher at St John Fisher Catholic primary school in Pinner, north-west London, said schools in her area were hugely oversubscribed, with some infant classes having to exceed the statutory limit to accommodate demand.
  • (5) Shapps's spokesman previously said: "Grant Shapps derives no income, dividends, or other income from this business, which is run by his wife, Belinda, with a registered office in Pinner in north-west London.
  • (6) He added: "Grant Shapps derives no income, dividends, or other income from this business, which is run by his wife Belinda with a registered office in Pinner in north-west London.
  • (7) The 23-year-old, who went to a fee-paying school near her family home in Pinner, north west London, says she appreciates she was lucky in having contacts who could get her placements, and her parents' help to pay for her China experience upfront.
  • (8) Peter Simpson Pinner, Middlesex • This article was amended on 20 July 2014.
  • (9) The reagent was prepared from 5-bromovaleryl nitrile by Pinner synthesis and then used to amidinate hPL.
  • (10) Nick Hurd is the MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner and is the minister for civil society.
  • (11) Douglas, married to another BBC staffer and with two school-age children, was forced to break her half-term holiday this week and commute into Broadcasting House from Pinner, outer London, to take charge of her sternest editorial challenge since becoming controller in 2003.

Tinner


Definition:

  • (n.) One who works in a tin mine.
  • (n.) One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A method has been evolved for bonding aluminous porcelain to pure platinum foil used for making porcelain crowns by the conventional 'tinner's joint' technique.

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