Dictionary Entry
tan
tan is a 3-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, adjective, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: See Picul. Face value is 3 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
3 letters · Scrabble 3 · Words With Friends 4 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
See Picul.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
- 4noun
A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
- 5adjective
Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
- 8intransitive verb
To get or become tanned.
- 9noun
a light brown the color of topaz
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- 10noun
ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
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- 11noun
a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- 12verb
get a tan, from wind or sun
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- 13verb
treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- 14adjective
of a light yellowish-brown color
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