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单词 tan
释义

tannoun [ C ]

uk/tæn/us/tæn/also suntan

B2 pleasantly brown skin caused by being in the hot sun:

a deep tan

More examples

  • Annabelle was flaunting her tan in a little white dress.
  • She came back from Spain with a deep tan.

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The skin, & skin colour

  • beauty spot
  • blanch
  • coloring
  • coloured
  • cutaneous
  • dermatome
  • dermis
  • drain
  • follicle
  • goosebumps
  • half-caste
  • ink
  • jaundiced
  • pale
  • pallid
  • sallow
  • skin graft
  • swarthy
  • waxen
  • wrinkled

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tanadjective

uk/tæn/us/tæn/

pale yellowish-brown in colour

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Less common colours

  • aquamarine
  • azure
  • beige
  • blood red
  • burgundy
  • burnish
  • cerulean
  • chestnut
  • earth colour
  • ginger
  • khaki
  • magenta
  • maroon
  • ochre
  • peach
  • raw sienna
  • ruddy
  • russet
  • sage green
  • violet

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tan
noun [ U ] ukus

tanverb

uk/tæn/us/tæn/-nn-

tan verb (COLOUR)

[ I or T ] to become brown, or to make someone's body or skin, etc. brown, from being in the sun:

Her skin tans very quickly in the summer.
I need to tan my legs before the holiday.
Tanned workmen were sitting around the dock.

More examples

  • I'm lucky - I tan easily.
  • They lay tanning themselves on the beach.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

The skin, & skin colour

  • beauty spot
  • blanch
  • coloring
  • coloured
  • cutaneous
  • dermatome
  • dermis
  • drain
  • follicle
  • goosebumps
  • half-caste
  • ink
  • jaundiced
  • pale
  • pallid
  • sallow
  • skin graft
  • swarthy
  • waxen
  • wrinkled

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tan verb (LEATHER)

[ T ] to change animal skin into leather using special chemicals such as tannin

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Tanning & leather

  • buckskin
  • calfskin
  • chamois
  • cowhide
  • dubbin
  • goatskin
  • hide
  • kid
  • lambskin
  • leather
  • leatherette
  • patent
  • patent leather
  • pigskin
  • shammy
  • suede
  • tanner
  • tannery
  • tooled
  • vellum

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Industrial processing

Idiom(s)

tan sb's hide

tanabbreviation

uk/tæn/us/tæn/

written abbreviation for tangent

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Geometry: parts of geometrical shapes

  • angle
  • axes
  • circumference
  • corresponding sides
  • crosswise
  • diameter
  • frustum
  • hemisphere
  • hypotenuse
  • inclination
  • line
  • line segment
  • node
  • perimeter
  • quadrant
  • radius
  • section
  • side
  • sin 1

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