Tan - English meaning

verb

Strike (a person or an animal) repeatedly and violently so as to hurt or injure them, typically with an implement such as a club or whip.

Usage examples:

If we were caught we were beaten

noun

A main accent or rhythmic unit in music or poetry.

Usage examples:

The glissando begins on the second beat

adjective

Short for beatnik.

noun

A strip of leather or other material worn, typically round the waist, to support or hold in clothes or to carry weapons.

Usage examples:

He tightened his leather belt an extra notch

verb

Fasten with a belt.

Usage examples:

She belted her raincoat firmly

noun

A strip of leather or other material worn around the waist

Usage examples:

A black leather belt, the corn belt (= area known for growing corn), he belted the ball out of the …

noun

A slender hardy tree which has thin peeling bark and bears catkins. birch trees grow chiefly in northern temperate regions and yield hard, pale, fine-grained timber.

Usage examples:

Police want to identify areas where the western hemlock (tsuga heterophylla) and the birch tree gro…

verb

Beat (someone) with a bundle of birch twigs as a formal punishment.

Usage examples:

The school would attempt to birch them into submission

noun

A tree with a smooth, often white bark (= outer covering), or the wood of this tree

noun

A yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin.

Usage examples:

The minoans made large numbers of statuettes in ivory and bronze

verb

Make (a person or part of the body) suntanned.

Usage examples:

Alison was bronzed by outdoor life

adjective

An alloy of copper and tin and sometimes other elements

adjective

Of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil.

Usage examples:

An old brown coat

noun

Brown colour or pigment.

Usage examples:

The brown of his eyes

verb

Another term for coloured (sense 2 of the noun).

noun

The hollow jointed stem of a tall grass, especially bamboo or sugar cane, or the stem of a slender palm such as rattan.

Usage examples:

They brought the eggs back to constantinople in hollow canes.

verb

Beat with a cane as a punishment.

Usage examples:

Matthew was caned for bullying by the headmaster

noun

The long, hard, hollow stem of particular plants such as bamboo, sometimes used to make furniture or support other plants in the garden

verb

Flog (someone), either as a religious discipline or for sexual gratification.

Usage examples:

He flagellated himself with branches

noun

A protozoan that has one or more flagella used for swimming.

Usage examples:

In addition to the protozoan in figure 1.6, several other types were found, including amoebae, othe…

adjective

(of a cell or single-celled organism) bearing one or more flagella.

Usage examples:

Motile flagellate cells

noun

A threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it.

Usage examples:

In some middle eastern locations, the same animals dragged a sledge over the ears, or workers manua…

verb

Wave or swing wildly.

Usage examples:

His arms flailed as he sought to maintain his balance

verb

(especially of arms and legs) to move energetically in an uncontrolled way

Usage examples:

A wasp came towards us and howard started flailing his arms around., she ran from the house in a te…

verb

Strip the skin off (a corpse or carcass).

Usage examples:

The captured general was flayed alive

verb

Strip the skin off

verb

To remove the skin from a person's or animal's body

verb

Beat (someone) with a whip or stick as a punishment.

Usage examples:

The men had been flogged and branded on the forehead

noun

An arduous climb or struggle.

Usage examples:

A long flog up the mountainside

verb

Beat with a whip, rod, or cane

noun

A long whip used for driving and controlling horses.

Usage examples:

Vicious black-eyed figures in long dark cloaks with white neck collars and black horsewhips marshal…

verb

Beat (a person or animal) with a horsewhip.

Usage examples:

She would horsewhip them mercilessly

verb

To hit someone with a whip (= long, thin piece of leather, rope, etc.)

verb

Hit hard; strike.

Usage examples:

I'll lam you in the mouth in a minute

verb

Escape; flee.

Usage examples:

We'd better lam before the cops show up!

abbreviation

Lamentations (in biblical references).

verb

Strike or beat with a whip or stick.

Usage examples:

They lashed him repeatedly about the head

noun

A sharp blow or stroke with a whip or rope.

Usage examples:

He was sentenced to fifty lashes for his crime

verb

A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

noun

A material made from the skin of an animal by tanning or a similar process.

Usage examples:

A leather jacket

verb

Short for stirrup leather.

noun

Animal skin that has been treated in order to preserve it and is used to make shoes, bags, clothes, equipment, etc.

Usage examples:

A leather jacket, his skin was tough and leathery.

verb

Slap with one's open hand or a flat object, especially on the buttocks as a punishment.

Usage examples:

She was spanked for spilling ink on the carpet

noun

A slap or series of slaps with one's open hand or a flat object.

Usage examples:

When his father caught him he got a spank

verb

To hit someone, esp. a child, with the hand on the buttocks, usually as a punishment

Usage examples:

[ u ] my parents didn’t believe in spanking.

noun

A strip of leather, cloth, or other flexible material, used to fasten, secure, or carry something or to hold on to something.

Usage examples:

Her bra strap

verb

Fasten or secure in a specified place or position with a strap.

Usage examples:

I had to strap the bag to my bicycle

verb

An elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position

noun

A device for making and breaking the connection in an electric circuit.

Usage examples:

The guard hit a switch and the gate swung open

verb

Change the position, direction, or focus of.

Usage examples:

The company switched the boats to other routes

verb

Device for making or breaking the connections in a circuit

adjective

Of an orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour.

Usage examples:

Tawny eyes

noun

An orange-brown or yellowish-brown colour.

Usage examples:

Pine needles turning from tawny to amber

adjective

Of a light yellow-brown color, like that of a lion

Usage examples:

Tawny fur

verb

Beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip.

Usage examples:

She thrashed him across the head and shoulders

noun

A violent or noisy movement of beating or thrashing.

Usage examples:

The thrash of the waves

verb

Give a beating to

verb

Strike or hit very hard.

Usage examples:

They walloped the back of his head with a stick

noun

A heavy blow or punch.

Usage examples:

I gave it a wallop with my boot

noun

A strip of leather or length of cord fastened to a handle, used for flogging or beating a person or for urging on an animal.

Usage examples:

I wouldn't be surprised if they walked around their office wearing tight leather and vinyl with whi…

verb

Short for whipper-in.

noun

An instrument with a handle and a flexible lash