Princeton"s WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

tan, suntan, sunburn, burnnoun

a browning of the skin resulting from exposure khổng lồ the rays of the sun

tan, topaznoun

a light brown the color of topaz

tangent, tanadjective

ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle

tanverb

of a light yellowish-brown color

tanverb

treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as khổng lồ convert them into leather

tan, bronzeverb

get a tan, from wind or sun


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Tannoun

An English surname derived from the transliteration of various Asian surnames, particularly originating from đài loan trung quốc and Vietnam.

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Etymology: tannen, from late tannian "to chảy a hide", from tanner, from tan. See above.


Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

Tannoun

see Picul

Tannoun

the bark of the oak, và some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also chảy bark

Tannoun

a yellowish-brown color, lượt thích that of tan

Tannoun

a brown màu sắc imparted to the skin by exposure khổng lồ the sun; as, hands covered with tan

Tanadjective

of the color of tan; yellowish-brown

Tannoun

to convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to lớn water

Tannoun

to make brown; lớn imbrown, as by exposure to lớn the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin

Tanverb

to get or become tanned


Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

Tan

Tan is a pale tone of brown. The name is derived from tannum used in the tanning of leather.The first recorded use of chảy as a màu sắc name in English was in the year 1590.Colors which are similar or may be considered synonymous lớn tan include: tawny, tenné, & fulvous.

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Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

Tan

tan, n. Bark of the oak, &c., bruised & broken for tanning: a yellowish-brown colour.—v.t. To convert skins và hides into leather by steeping in vegetable solutions containing tannin: khổng lồ make brown or tawny: lớn take the freshness from: (coll.) lớn beat.—v.i. Khổng lồ become tanned:—pr.p. Tan′ning; pa.t. & pa.p. Tanned.—n.pl. Tan′-balls, the spent bark of the tanner"s yard pressed into lumps, which harden on drying, & serve for fuel.—n. Tan′-bed (hort.), a bark-bed.—adj. Tan′-col′oured, of the colour of tan.—ns. Tan′ling (Shak.), one tanned or scorched by the heat of the sun; Tan′-liq′uor, -ooze, an aqueous extract of tan-bark.—adj. Tan′nable.—ns. Tan′nage, act of tanning: browning from exposure to the sun: the act of steeping cast slabs of artificial marble in a solution of potash alum lớn harden it & make it insoluble; Tan′ner, one who tans; Tan′nery, a place for tanning; Tan′ning, the art of tanning or converting into leather; Tan′-pit, -vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan; Tan′-yard, a yard or enclosure where leather is tanned.


The New Hacker"s Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

TAN

Abbrev. Of ‘tangent’, as in “off on a tangent”, & synonym for OT. A number of hacker-humor synonyms are used for tan in some newsgroups. Instances such as BEIGE, OFF-WHITE, BROWNISH-GRAY, and LIGHT BROWN have been observed. It is generally understood on newsgroups with this convention that any màu sắc descriptor is a tan synonym if (a) used as the first word(s) of the topic of a Usenet post, (b) written in ALL CAPS, & (c) followed immediately by a colon. Usage: “OFF-WHITE: 2000 Presidential candidates” on an SF newsgroup.