Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or process of making leather from rawhides.
- noun Darkening of the skin by exposure to the sun.
- noun Informal A beating; a whipping.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or process of converting hides and skins into leather; the manufacture of leather.
- noun An appearance or hue of a brown color produced on the skin by the action of the sun.
- noun Same as
tannage , 3. - noun A whipping; a flogging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art or process of converting skins into leather. See
tan , v. t., 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
tan . - verb The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the skins of animals, which do.
- noun The acquisition of a
tan , either by exposure to the sun, or artificially. - noun informal A
spanking .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
- noun process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
- noun making leather from rawhide
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Examples
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I encourage ALL teabagging hicks to spend as much time as possible in tanning salons and please, pretty please, take up smoking …. and Russian Roulette.
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Fake tanning is actually worse than sitting out in the sun because the rays are closer.
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If tanning is worthy topic of scrutiny by Beck and his deep thinking guest, they need to look no further than their own John Boehner, a man who has turned orange before our eyes.
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The news that: Courses in tanning are worth the same in school league tables as A-level maths papers, it emerged yesterday.
Educational standards update Not a sheep 2009
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I love your all natrual africain tanning solution idea …. amazing!
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This new understanding of the process of skin tanning enabled them to develop a promising way of protecting fair-skinned people from skin cancer caused by exposure to sunlight.
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Black Forest, and also substances used in tanning and, during the final years of his life, the fats.
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Investigators trained five female college students to pose as fair-skinned, 15-year-old first-time tanners and had them call tanning salons to inquire about services.
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With the exception of my four yes, FOUR summers spent as a lifeguard in my late teens, I've never been one for "tanning" - I get really bored and impatient after an hour or so.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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With the exception of my four yes, FOUR summers spent as a lifeguard in my late teens, I've never been one for "tanning" - I get really bored and impatient after an hour or so.
Spring Awakening 2009
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