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单词 tanner
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tanner1

noun ˈtanəˈtænər
  • 1A person who is employed to tan animal hides.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The best medium to preserve one's writings, however, is vellum, which is made from calf skin exposed to lime which is then worked by tanners into a usable writing skin.
    • But the price of leather had shot up steeply, and tanners refused to sell at government rates.
    • Nonetheless, colonials judged regulation of nuisances an appropriate arena for courts and local government, leading to lawsuits and regulations aimed at such objectionable trades as butchers and tanners.
    • His father served as a soldier in the wars and ‘some of my great-greats were leather tanners and lightermen on the Thames’.
    • However, the bark would be stripped off for the tanners, as it contains tannin, especially if the tree had been an oak, alder or elm, and the bast fibres that lie just under the bark would also be pulled off to make rope and other ties.
    • Here, the unrecorded deeds of long-dead city dwellers come to light; the brewers, tanners, cabinet makers, printers and bakers are all to be found in the records of the city's ancient parishes.
    • The other quarter did everything from mining coal to making paper flowers; they worked as tanners and carpenters, typesetters and bookbinders, bakers and pastry-cooks.
    • The workers were classified as leather cutters, leather dressers, leather sellers and tanners.
    • The report concludes: "The overall effect of ecommerce on leather tanners' performance in the last two years has been minimal."
    • His talk is of pack-asses, smiths, cobblers, and tanners, and he seems always to be using the same terms for the same things; so that anyone inexpert and thoughtless might laugh his speeches to scorn.
    • Treated by the tanners in Niort, some seventy miles from La Rochelle, these hides were transformed into the chamois considered vital for the clothing of contemporary cavaliers.
    • However, the tidal streams that meandered through the marsh perfectly suited tanners, who needed lots of water and space for large tanning pits.
    • The first exemption act allowed paper mill workers, shoemakers, textile workers, tanners, wagon makers, and others to remain at their work, provided the profits of factories that used exempted workers not exceed 75 percent.
    • It is a chaotic warren of factories and homes where tanners beat large strips of leather and potters work at their wheels in dimly-lit rooms, while people cook, eat, sleep and bathe on adjoining pavements.
    • These days it is weighed glitteringly down with upmarket gold shops and silversmiths, but the bridge was traditionally home to the city's butchers and tanners.
    • From Maine to Alabama, the armor of chestnut oaks looked like gold to the tanners who often felled the great trees, stripped the bark, and left the naked wood to rot.
    • A company spokesman said: "It is very sad to have to close, but today more and more tanners are searching for supplies at higher and higher prices."
    • The street turns, but I do not, traipsing through an alley running between a tanner's and a baker's, thankful that some of the warmth from the latter's building leaks into the space through which I pass.
    • This is critical, because without such protection, tanners seeking to collaboratively market their products would face a serious risk of antitrust litigation.
    • Many societies in Chad traditionally have different low-prestige occupational castes, such as hunters, potters, tanners, and blacksmiths (haddad).
  • 2A lotion or cream designed to promote the development of a suntan or produce a similar skin colour artificially.

    skincare companies are coming to the rescue of consumers with sunless tanners
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sunless tanners for the face's thin skin, for example, usually contain less DHA.
    • Sunless tanners are lotions and creams you apply to create a nut-brown gloss nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
    • Applying sunless tanners right after shaving could irritate the skin and hair follicles.
    • And for notorious trouble spots like ankles, wrists, hands and knees, a dab of moisturizer rubbed in on top of the tanner will help color blend better.
    • When applying the tanner, you'll get the most natural look if you dilute the self-tanner with an equal amount of moisturizer before applying it to your feet, ankles, elbows and knees, as well as to the inside of your arms and under your chin.
    • You go into the shop expecting to find a nice selection of sun protection products and all you see are four feeble bottles of sunscreen in a sea of tanners, bronzers and after sun lotion.
    • Expert correction tips: If you still wind up with dark blotches, hop into the shower after the tanner has finished developing and scrub the dark blotches gently with a loofah.
    • To stop the palms of your hands from staining, wear latex gloves when you are applying the tanner.
    • Price is another worry: at an average ring of $13 to $14, it stands as one of the priciest self tanners at mass and is just shy of some prestige/department store brands like Estee Lauder's Clinique.
    • If a person wants to add color, they should use sunless tanners in a bottle.
    • Make sure that your skin is completely dry before applying or else the tanner will go on unevenly.
    • The most common mistakes people make when attempting a faux glow include applying the tanner to damp or too-dry skin – both of which can cause streaking.
    • All sunless tanners contain dihydroxyacetone, the only FDA-approved active ingredient for self-tanning lotions.
    • To help avoid streaking, moisturize with a light layer of body lotion and wait for skin to dry completely before using a tanner.
    • If you have extremely dry skin, moisturise once again just before applying the tanner, to ensure that it goes on smoothly.
    • Completely harmless to the skin, sunless tanners contain dihydroxyacetone, a colorless sugar that stains the skin.
    • The nice thing about this line of sunless tanners is that you get results in about 30 minutes, so you can apply it as you're getting ready to go out.
    • Wearing your favourite bathing suit isn't recommended since the solution of sunless tanner, bronzer and moisturizers can stain clothing.

Rhymes

Alana, Anna, bandanna, banner, Branagh, canna, canner, Diana, fanner, Fermanagh, Guyana, Hannah, Havana, hosanna, Indiana, Joanna, lanner, Louisiana, manna, manner, manor, Montana, nana, planner, Pollyanna, Rosanna, savannah, scanner, spanner, Susanna

tanner2

noun ˈtanəˈtænər
British informal, historical
  • A sixpence.

    a tanner for a packet of ten cigarettes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • We'll be the ones in the snug muttering about when we were lads kids had proper respect for their parents and you could get a yard of ale for tuppence and still have change from a tanner to see George Formby at the Odeon, etc, etc, etc.
    • Because everybody's been helping themselves to a tanner here and a fiver there, consequently there is not enough left in the kitty to pay out a pension for people like me who have spent all their life expecting one.
    • The chastened man set off into York, where his tanner bought him cow's liver, half a pound of onions, two penny ‘ducks’ and a packet of Woodbines, providing enough food for two days' dinner.
    • The vet charges a tanner a time to put them to sleep.
    • Anger hardened around this basic demand for sixpence an hour - the ‘dockers' tanner’.

Origin

Early 19th century: of unknown origin.

 
 

tanner1

nounˈtænərˈtanər
  • 1A person who tans animal hides, especially to earn a living.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many societies in Chad traditionally have different low-prestige occupational castes, such as hunters, potters, tanners, and blacksmiths (haddad).
    • From Maine to Alabama, the armor of chestnut oaks looked like gold to the tanners who often felled the great trees, stripped the bark, and left the naked wood to rot.
    • The street turns, but I do not, traipsing through an alley running between a tanner's and a baker's, thankful that some of the warmth from the latter's building leaks into the space through which I pass.
    • The workers were classified as leather cutters, leather dressers, leather sellers and tanners.
    • But the price of leather had shot up steeply, and tanners refused to sell at government rates.
    • This is critical, because without such protection, tanners seeking to collaboratively market their products would face a serious risk of antitrust litigation.
    • However, the tidal streams that meandered through the marsh perfectly suited tanners, who needed lots of water and space for large tanning pits.
    • The other quarter did everything from mining coal to making paper flowers; they worked as tanners and carpenters, typesetters and bookbinders, bakers and pastry-cooks.
    • Here, the unrecorded deeds of long-dead city dwellers come to light; the brewers, tanners, cabinet makers, printers and bakers are all to be found in the records of the city's ancient parishes.
    • It is a chaotic warren of factories and homes where tanners beat large strips of leather and potters work at their wheels in dimly-lit rooms, while people cook, eat, sleep and bathe on adjoining pavements.
    • Nonetheless, colonials judged regulation of nuisances an appropriate arena for courts and local government, leading to lawsuits and regulations aimed at such objectionable trades as butchers and tanners.
    • A company spokesman said: "It is very sad to have to close, but today more and more tanners are searching for supplies at higher and higher prices."
    • These days it is weighed glitteringly down with upmarket gold shops and silversmiths, but the bridge was traditionally home to the city's butchers and tanners.
    • The first exemption act allowed paper mill workers, shoemakers, textile workers, tanners, wagon makers, and others to remain at their work, provided the profits of factories that used exempted workers not exceed 75 percent.
    • However, the bark would be stripped off for the tanners, as it contains tannin, especially if the tree had been an oak, alder or elm, and the bast fibres that lie just under the bark would also be pulled off to make rope and other ties.
    • His talk is of pack-asses, smiths, cobblers, and tanners, and he seems always to be using the same terms for the same things; so that anyone inexpert and thoughtless might laugh his speeches to scorn.
    • Treated by the tanners in Niort, some seventy miles from La Rochelle, these hides were transformed into the chamois considered vital for the clothing of contemporary cavaliers.
    • His father served as a soldier in the wars and ‘some of my great-greats were leather tanners and lightermen on the Thames’.
    • The report concludes: "The overall effect of ecommerce on leather tanners' performance in the last two years has been minimal."
    • The best medium to preserve one's writings, however, is vellum, which is made from calf skin exposed to lime which is then worked by tanners into a usable writing skin.
  • 2A lotion or cream designed to promote the development of a suntan or produce a similar skin color artificially.

    skincare companies are coming to the rescue of consumers with sunless tanners
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When applying the tanner, you'll get the most natural look if you dilute the self-tanner with an equal amount of moisturizer before applying it to your feet, ankles, elbows and knees, as well as to the inside of your arms and under your chin.
    • And for notorious trouble spots like ankles, wrists, hands and knees, a dab of moisturizer rubbed in on top of the tanner will help color blend better.
    • The nice thing about this line of sunless tanners is that you get results in about 30 minutes, so you can apply it as you're getting ready to go out.
    • Expert correction tips: If you still wind up with dark blotches, hop into the shower after the tanner has finished developing and scrub the dark blotches gently with a loofah.
    • Wearing your favourite bathing suit isn't recommended since the solution of sunless tanner, bronzer and moisturizers can stain clothing.
    • Completely harmless to the skin, sunless tanners contain dihydroxyacetone, a colorless sugar that stains the skin.
    • To help avoid streaking, moisturize with a light layer of body lotion and wait for skin to dry completely before using a tanner.
    • Sunless tanners are lotions and creams you apply to create a nut-brown gloss nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
    • Applying sunless tanners right after shaving could irritate the skin and hair follicles.
    • Make sure that your skin is completely dry before applying or else the tanner will go on unevenly.
    • All sunless tanners contain dihydroxyacetone, the only FDA-approved active ingredient for self-tanning lotions.
    • The most common mistakes people make when attempting a faux glow include applying the tanner to damp or too-dry skin – both of which can cause streaking.
    • Sunless tanners for the face's thin skin, for example, usually contain less DHA.
    • Price is another worry: at an average ring of $13 to $14, it stands as one of the priciest self tanners at mass and is just shy of some prestige/department store brands like Estee Lauder's Clinique.
    • If you have extremely dry skin, moisturise once again just before applying the tanner, to ensure that it goes on smoothly.
    • To stop the palms of your hands from staining, wear latex gloves when you are applying the tanner.
    • If a person wants to add color, they should use sunless tanners in a bottle.
    • You go into the shop expecting to find a nice selection of sun protection products and all you see are four feeble bottles of sunscreen in a sea of tanners, bronzers and after sun lotion.

tanner2

nounˈtænərˈtanər
British historical, informal
  • A sixpence.

    a tanner for a packet of ten cigarettes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The vet charges a tanner a time to put them to sleep.
    • We'll be the ones in the snug muttering about when we were lads kids had proper respect for their parents and you could get a yard of ale for tuppence and still have change from a tanner to see George Formby at the Odeon, etc, etc, etc.
    • Because everybody's been helping themselves to a tanner here and a fiver there, consequently there is not enough left in the kitty to pay out a pension for people like me who have spent all their life expecting one.
    • The chastened man set off into York, where his tanner bought him cow's liver, half a pound of onions, two penny ‘ducks’ and a packet of Woodbines, providing enough food for two days' dinner.
    • Anger hardened around this basic demand for sixpence an hour - the ‘dockers' tanner’.

Origin

Early 19th century: of unknown origin.

 
 
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