tan

noun

1. A light, brown-like colour.
2. A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.

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

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

3. The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.

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

4. An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh
5. (uncountable, usually)Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
6. (dialectal)A twig or small switch.
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of total acid number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity. See Total acid number on Wikipedia.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of transaction authentication number, in electronic banking. See Transaction authentication number on Wikipedia.

adj

1. Yellowish-brown.

   “a tan suit”

   “Mine is the white car parked next to the tan pickup truck.”

   “The history of suits in politics is long and storied: from Obama’s “shocking” tan suit, now infamous enough to have its own Wikipedia page, […].”

2. Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun or an artificial process intended to mimic this effect.

   “You’re looking very tan this week.”

verb

1. (intransitive, transitive)To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.

   “No matter how long I stay out in the sun, I never tan, though I do burn.”

2. (transitive)To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid.
3. (stative, transitive)To work as a tanner.
4. (informal, transitive)To spank or beat.

   “"Well, go 'long and play; but mind you get back some time in a week, or I'll tan you."”

5. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive)To kill by gun, to shoot.

   “Step on the wing, see an opp and I'll whack it Do it like Super Savage Who's the yute I Jet-Li-rise that dots and tan him (whoosh) Rise that dots and tan him”

num

1. (dialectal, rare)The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting.

name

1. A Chinese surname from Mandarin.
2. A Chinese surname from Hokkien.
3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Dan.

   “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.”

4. A surname from Vietnamese.