Definitions for tans

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tans tan

Spelling: [tan]

IPA: /tæn/

Tans is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in tans (anst).

Definitions for tans

noun

1. the brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun or open air.
2. yellowish brown; light brown.
3. tanbark.
4. tangent (def 5b).
5. tax-anticipation note.

Idioms

1. tan someone's hide, Informal. to beat someone soundly:

adjective

1. of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
2. used in or relating to tanning processes, materials, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to convert (a hide) into leather, especially by soaking or steeping in a bath prepared from tanbark or synthetically.
2. to make brown by exposure to ultraviolet rays, as of the sun.
3. Informal. to thrash; spank.

verb (used without object)

1. to become tanned.

Origin of tans

before 1000; 1920-25 for def 2; Middle English tannen to make hide into leather, late Old English *tannian (in past participle getanned; cf. tanner¹) Med

Examples for tans

He tans, moisturizes, exfoliates, and buffs, and then gels his hair back, with a crisp white button-up.

Her face was a true oval, and her complexion of that kind which tans readily but does not freckle.

Notice the value of self-toned papers, and of shades of tans and pale browns.

Browns and tans seemed best and safest in a little house like this, and I knew I shouldn't tire of them as of any other color!

Their "tans," Reed says, were "melting down their muscles and dripping on the floor."

Real-life Israelis, with tans and guns, Jewish tanks, Hebrew spoken in the streets.

Sarah Palin tans, and she effectively coined the phrase Real America.

It must be this climate that tans them to such a glorious shade, said Ray.

The flowers are three inches long, yellow tinged with tans and reds.

A white powder is obtained which tans when its solution is acidified.