tan
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1. tan - Noun
2. tan - Adjective
3. tan - Verb
4. tan - Adjective Satellite
5. Tan - Proper noun
Meaning
See Picul.
The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark.
A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
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 water.
To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
To get or become tanned.
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Alder bark and wood (like oak and sweet chestnut ) contain tannin and are traditionally used to tan leather.
According to Tan, the government has a general policy of not governing by petitions.
Another carried a racist reference to the Black Lives Matter movement, reading “BLM: Burn Loot Murder, Klan With A Tan.”
An alumnus of Anglo-Chinese School, Mr Tan is married with two adult daughters and holds a Bachelor of Science from the National University of Singapore.
A mug of freshly poured root beer. Root beer is a tan sweet beverage traditionally made using the root beer tree Sassafras albidum (sassafras) or the vine Smilax ornata (sarsaparilla) as the primary flavor.
Aunty Pat Anderson and Lilia Tan in Canberra: The Uluru Statement from the Heart has been translated into more than 60 languages to reach a range of Australians from non-English speaking backgrounds.