Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A workman in tin-plate; a maker of tin vessels.
- n. A dealer in tinware.
Wiktionary
- n. A maker of tinware.
- n. A dealer in tinware.
- n. genetics A master gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A manufacturer of tin vessels; a dealer in tinware.
Etymologies
- In allusion to the character Tin Man from the Land of Oz, who lacked a heart. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Holds hands with HP, goes by the name of the 'tinman' ORACLE has had enough of selling storage software and wants to get into the hardware business.”
“tinman" if you are referring to the tax credits given to McKee, how can you criticize that move?”
“My daughter tells me that funding for research that uncovered the tinman gene came mostly from non-governments sources.”
Pharma a Public Utility?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Yes | No | Report from tinman wrote 1 year 32 weeks ago big country gregory peck and burril ives”
“I think I just died a little inside … tinman on Jun 24, 2008 okay, no funnies for most of it, but the feet thing at the end did make me laugh.”
Rant: How Does This Shit Get Made?! Disaster Movie Trailer « FirstShowing.net
“Maybe we should lobby for Uwe Boll to team up with these guys and make "Video Game Movie" which could possibly drive enough people over the edge to actually make them stop .. tinman on Jun 25, 2008”
Rant: How Does This Shit Get Made?! Disaster Movie Trailer « FirstShowing.net
“All in all though, I found it a lot of fun and well worth seeing on the big screen. tinman on Jun 30, 2008”
“Wayne's World had it's moments but I think his characters are better left in sketch comedy and don't support a feature length film. (thank god the movie for "Dieter" never got off the ground. that would have been "It's Pat" caliber of bad.) tinman on Jun 18, 2008”
Rant: This Is Why The Love Guru Looks Absolutely Terrible! « FirstShowing.net
“Yes they have simply re-outfitted "Creationism" from the Biblical style robes of Charlton Heston clothing ID in the cheap suit of a dodgy car/tinman sales rep.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Daniella is associated with dolls and puppets via mise en scene throughout the castle, and is just that: a body without a soul, a tinman without a heart.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tinman’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
faint sausage stargazer
Interesting gene names
sonic hedgehog, lunatic fringe, methuselah, dreadlocks, tinman, inebriated, swiss cheese, stargazer, headcase, faint sausage, fear of intimacy, van gogh and 11 more...
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I made this!
People who make stuff.
milliner, jeweler, silversmith, cobbler, draper, goldsmith, locksmith, carpenter, joiner, baker, stonemason, wheelwright and 43 more...
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Wonderful Wiz That Wuz
wizard, scarecrow, lion, tinman, dorothy, toto, yellow brick road, kansas, rainbow, somewhere, tornado, witch and 12 more...
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Artificial Intelligence
Names for thinking machines and man-machine combinations in fiction and real life.
robot, bot, android, droid, mechanical man, mecha, automaton, replicant, cyborg, borg, bionic man, cybernetic organism and 10 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tinman.
bilby Interesting gene, but why didn't they call it conservativepolitician? Jun 1, 2012
deinonychus Soo... I couldn't wait any longer so now I have a list of genes.
I hope to find some good ones here, and FlyBase seems very, very comprehensive...
May 31, 2012
ruzuzu If there isn't, there should be! May 31, 2012
deinonychus Oh, I love genes with funny names. Is there perhaps a list somewhere? May 31, 2012
ruzuzu "A master gene in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, whose absence causes the fly to develop without a heart." --Wiktionary May 31, 2012