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Definitions: Tanned |
TannedAdjective1. (of skin) having a tan color from exposure to the sun; "a young bronzed Apollo". 2. Converted to leather by a tanning agent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tanned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1609. (references) |
Synonyms: TannedSynonyms: bronzed (adj), browned (adj), suntanned (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: untanned (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tanned |
| English words defined with "tanned": Backs, box calf ♦ Cordwain, curry ♦ dress ♦ fleece ♦ Hogskin ♦ Russia leather ♦ sheepskin, Skiver ♦ Tanling, Tannable, tannery ♦ weather-beaten, White leather. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tanned": aldehyde leather ♦ box-calf ♦ combination oil ♦ dressed leather ♦ hard grain goat ♦ KID ♦ latigo leather, le Royaume du Maroc ♦ pinned belly, pinned shoulder ♦ slink lamb, sumac tanned, SUPERVISOR, BEAM DEPARTMENT ♦ welting shoulder, willow side, willow-calf, wool lamb skin, wool sheep skin, woolled lamb skin, woolled sheep or lamb skin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "tanned": Tanling. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Tanned Legs (1929) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Their bodies, corpsewhite or suffused with a pallid golden light or rawly tanned by the suns, gleamed with the wet of the sea. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | NOM-020-SCFI-1997 applies to Commercial Information or labeling on tanned leathers (natural or synthetic), footwear and leatherwork. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Tanned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.49% of the time. "Tanned" is used about 188 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 66.49% | 125 | 28,650 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.68% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 12.77% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.06% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 188 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tanned": browned suntanned tanned ♦ deeply tanned ♦ sumac tanned ♦ sun tanned. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "tanned": sun-tanned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tanned | 179 |
babe tanned | 46 |
tanned girl | 33 |
blonde tanned | 31 |
tanned tit | 29 |
tanned woman | 20 |
tanned teen | 19 |
ass tanned | 17 |
butt tanned | 15 |
tanned leg | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tanned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | محمر على أصفر, مسفع, مدبوغ (leathery, tan). (various references) | |
Chinese | '黑 (Sunned, Sunning, suntan, suntanned, tanning). (various references) | |
Danish | sumachgarvet (sumac tanned), højstrækningsremme af ekstra glat læder (vegetable tanned apron estra smoothed). (various references) | |
Dutch | sumakgelooid (sumac tanned). (various references) | |
Finnish | auringon-paahtama (sunburnt), ahavoitunut (weather-beaten). (various references) | |
French | tanné (tan), hâté, bruni, bronzé, basané. (various references) | |
German | gebräunt (bronzy, sun tanned, suntanned). (various references) | |
Greek | μαυρισμένος (bruised, charred). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שזוף (bronzed, caramelization, sun burning, sun tan, suntan, tan, tanning), עפיץ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kicserzett, napbarnított (sun-tanned, swarthy, tan, tawny). (various references) | |
Italian | nero (animal black, black, black mould, dark, dire, gloomy, sable, sooty mould), abbronzato (bronzy, sunburnt, tawny). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 赤銅色 (brown). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃくどういろ (brown). (various references) | |
Korean | 무두질하". (various references) | |
Manx | cartit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | annedtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | manchão para estiragem em couro vegetal extra-macio (vegetable tanned apron estra smoothed), curtido a sumagre (sumac tanned). (various references) | |
Romanian | argãsit (tanning). (various references) | |
Russian | загорелый (sunburned, sunburnt, suntanned). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | preplanuo (tan, weather beaten, weatherbeaten). (various references) | |
Spanish | bronceado (brazen, bronze, bronzed, scald, sun tanned, sunburn, sunburnt, suntan, tan). (various references) | |
Swedish | solbränd (sun tanned, sunburned, sunburnt). (various references) | |
Turkish | tabaklanmış, yanık tenli (swart, swarthy), bronzlaşmış (bronzed, suntanned). (various references) | |
Ukranian | загорілий (adust, bronzed, sun tanned, sunburnt). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "tanned": suntanned, untanned. (additional references) | |
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"Tanned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hanned, tande, tandec, tanded, tandev, tane, taned, tanid, tanne, tannel, tannen, Tannett, tannex, tanney, tannit, taoned, tened, tenoned, tinnet, toaned, tonned, twaned, tzand, Tzanne. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "tanned" (pronounced ta"nd) |
| 4 | t a" n d | misunderstand, stand, understand, withstand. |
| 3 | -a" n d | and, band, banned, bland, brand, canned, command, demand, disband, expand, fanned, firsthand, gland, grand, hand, land, manned, meadowland, offhand, outmanned, panned, planned, rand, remand, sand, scanned, spanned, strand, unmanned, unplanned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-n-t" | |
-1 letter: anent, anted. | |
-2 letters: ante, date, dean, dent, etna, neat, tend. | |
-3 letters: and, ane, ant, ate, den, eat, end, eta, nae, nan, net, tad, tae, tan, tea, ted, ten. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, an, at, de, ed, en, et, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-n-t" | |
+1 letter: andante, candent, pendant. | |
+2 letters: andantes, anointed, antinode, cantoned, dentinal, incanted, inundate, lentando, neatened, nonrated, pendants, pennated, pinnated, scandent, tenanted, tendance, unatoned, untanned, unwanted, wantoned. | |
+3 letters: adornment, amendment, annotated, antinodes, appendant, ascendant, ascendent, asyndeton, attendant, attending, candlenut, contained, decanting, defendant, demandant, dependant, detaining, enchanted, entangled, entrained, entranced, fundament, innovated, instanced, integrand, intendant, intonated, inundated, inundates, mendicant, newsstand, nominated, nonsteady, outmanned, redundant, sandstone, suntanned, tendances, transcend, trapanned, trepanned, turbanned, unattuned, undaunted, unpainted, unstained, untainted, untangled, untrained, venenated. | |
+4 letters: adamantine, adornments, amantadine, amendments, antecedent, anteceding, antedating, antependia, antimodern, antimonide, antipodean, appendants, ascendants, ascendents, asyndetons, attendance, attendants, bartending, candescent, candlenuts, condensate, confidante, covenanted, daintiness, datelining, defendants, demandants, denaturant, denaturing, denegation, denominate, denotation, denudating, denudation, depainting, dependants, descanting, descendant, destaining, detainment, detonating, detonation, detraining, disenchant, emendating, emendation, endearment, enunciated, fountained, fundaments, hinterland, incarnated, incidental, indexation, inductance, innervated, inordinate, insinuated, integrands, intendance, intendants, internodal, lanthanide, maintained, mendicants, nationwide, newsstands, nondeviant, ordainment, ornamented, outplanned, outspanned, perennated, pteranodon, reanointed, sanctioned, sandstones, strandline, transcends, tyrannised, tyrannized, unaccented, unattended, undecadent, undereaten, underneath, underpants, understand, undertaken, unfastened, unhandiest, uninflated, unlamented, unparented, unpedantic, unstrained, untalented, untenanted, untreading. | |
+5 letters: abandonment, adjournment, advancement, adventuring, amantadines, annihilated, annunciated, antagonized, antecedence, antecedents, antependium, antimoderns, antimonides, antipodeans, antistudent, ascendantly, attendances, cachinnated, clandestine, coattending, codefendant, commandment, condensates, condimental, conductance, confidantes, constrained, contravened, contredanse, countermand, deaminating, deamination, decantation, declination, definientia, delineating, delineation, denaturants, denegations, denervating, denervation, denigrating, denigration, denominated, denominates, denominator, denotations, denudations, derangement, descendants, designating, designation, destination, detainments, determinant, detonations, detrainment, disbandment, disenchants, disentangle, distantness, edutainment, emendations, endearments, entertained, fecundating, fecundation, fundamental, goaltending, grandparent, handwritten, headhunting, hinterlands, inadvertent, incidentals, incinerated, indentation, indexations, inductances, infanticide, inseminated, intendances, intenerated, interdental, interisland, interstrand, invaginated, lanthanides, mandarinate, multimanned, mundanities, neanderthal, nonadaptive, nonadditive, nonadjacent, nonattached, nonattender, nondelegate, nondeviants, nondiabetic, nongraduate, opinionated, ordainments, pentahedron, pentamidine, pentlandite, predominant, pteranodons, quarantined, rallentando, rataplanned, redundantly, renominated, stanchioned, strandlines, tragedienne, transcended, transgender, transponder, tyrannicide, unaccounted, unalienated, unannotated, uncaptioned, uncurtained, undauntable, undauntedly, underacting, undereating, underrating, understands, undertaking, undertaxing, undertenant, undeviating, unenchanted, uninhabited, uninitiated, uninsulated, unsteadying, untarnished, unthreading, unwarranted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 6E 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -. -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01101110 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a n n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 006E 006E 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546780807170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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