tinman

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈtɪn.mæn/

英文释义

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

词形变化

tinmen plural tinmen plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English tin
English -man
English tinman
From tin + -man.
词源 2
In allusion to the character Tin Man from the Land of Oz, who lacked a heart.
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