Definitions for tanningˈtæn ɪŋ

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

tan•ningˈtæn ɪŋ(n.)

  1. the process or art of converting hides or skins into leather.

    Category: Clothing

  2. a browning or darkening of the skin, as by exposure to the sun.

  3. a thrashing; whipping.

    Category: Informal

Origin of tanning:

1475–85

Princeton's WordNet

  1. tanning(noun)

    process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light

  2. whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation(noun)

    beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment

  3. tanning(noun)

    making leather from rawhide

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. tanning(noun)ˈtæn ɪŋ

    the activity of darkening your skin using special lights

    teenagers who go to tanning salons

Wiktionary

  1. tanning(Noun)

    The acquisition of a tan, either by exposure to the sun, or artificially.

  2. tanning(Noun)

    A spanking.

  3. tanning(Verb)

    The process of making leather, which does not easily decompose, from the skins of animals, which do.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tanning(u)

    of Tan

  2. Tanning(noun)

    the art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Tanning

    A process of preserving animal hides by chemical treatment (using vegetable tannins, metallic sulfates, and sulfurized phenol compounds, or syntans) to make them immune to bacterial attack, and subsequent treatments with fats and greases to make them pliable. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 5th ed)


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