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.
Definitions
- noun. See Picul.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
- noun. A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
- adjective. Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
- noun. 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.
- noun. To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
- intransitive verb. To get or become tanned.
- noun. a light brown the color of topaz
- noun. ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
- noun. a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- verb. get a tan, from wind or sun
- verb. treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather
- adjective. of a light yellowish-brown color
Synonyms
topaz, tangent, burn, sunburn, suntan, bronze
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tan:
Common word forms
tans, tanned, tanner, tannest, tanning
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