Definition & Meaning | English word TINMAN

Definitions of TINMAN

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

Examples of Using TINMAN in a Sentence

• The predecessors of this document were called, in order, "Strawman", "Woodenman", "Tinman" and "Ironman".
• Odin consisted of Managing Director Paul McKenna; programmers Steve Wetherill, Robbie Tinman, Marc Dawson (now Wilding), Keith Robinson, George Barnes, Tommy Laningan, Derrick Rowson, and Stefan Walker; artists Paul Salmon, Stuart Fotheringham, and Colin Grunes; and musician Keith Tinman.
• He starred alongside Season Two alumni Rickey Smith as the Tinman, Season 4 alumna Mikalah Gordon as Dorothy, and Vonzell Solomon as Glinda/Aunt Em.
• The profession may sometimes also be known as a tinner, tinker, tinman, or tinplate worker; whitesmith may also refer to this profession, though the same word may also refer to an unrelated specialty of iron-smithing.
• Amongst the roles specifying baritenor voices in casting calls between 2008 and 2010 were: Tom Collins (Rent), Bob and Tommy (Jersey Boys); Wizard, Cowardly Lion, Scarecrow, and Tinman (The Wiz); Max Bialystock and Leopold Bloom (The Producers); and Thomas Weaver and Alvin Kelby (The Story of My Life).
• When Turretfield was broken up he retired to "The Gunyah", Wilmington, where he ran a small stud based on his mare Tinmine and her daughters Tinfoil, Stannine and Stannary Hills, from which he bred The Tinman, Tinbrook, Humberette and Dardurr.

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