Meaning of Tan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
2. Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
   uncountable, usually
3. A twig or small switch.
   dialectal
4. A light, brown-like colour.
5. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
6. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
7. A surname from Vietnamese.
8. Initialism of total acid number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity. See Total acid number on Wikipedia.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
9. A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
10. Initialism of transaction authentication number, in electronic banking. See Transaction authentication number on Wikipedia.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
11. The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.

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Examples

“She still has a tan from her vacation in Mexico.”

“I'm hoping to get a tan this weekend at the beach.”

“In two pints of water boil one ounce of tan, and a like portion of nutgall till reduced to a pint.”

“The Tae ping camps commanded the Tan river which, flowing eastward, becomes further on the Wei, under which name it joins the Grand Canal at Lin tsing, on the northern side of the highest level of the Canal waters.”

“As regards other possible railways in Shensi and Kansu not yet definitely projected, the most attractive is a line from the neighbourhood of Chingtzu Kuan in south-western Honan up the Tan River valley and across the Ch'inling Shan to Hsian.”

“I was much disappointed at learning that the water was too low for navigation on the Tan river as yet, and that we would have to travel four days over the mountains to Kingtzekuan, on the border of Honan, before we should find the river navigable.”

“In mid-March 1914 the White Wolf band gathered with a number of other rural bands at Ching-tzu-kuan, a cluster of houses at a pass on the Tan river at the Honan-Shensi provincial borders.[...] They continued through the Tsinling mountains above the Tan river valley on a high trad under yet higher caves where villagers traditionally hide.”

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