TANNING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Making leather from rawhide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tanning" is a kind of...):

craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

Derivation:

tan (treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather)

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

flagellation; flogging; lashing; tanning; whipping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("tanning" is a kind of...):

beating; drubbing; lacing; licking; thrashing; trouncing; whacking (the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tanning"):

self-flagellation (self-punishment inflicted by whipping)

horsewhipping (the act of whipping with a horsewhip)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("tanning" is a kind of...):

activity; bodily function; bodily process; body process (an organic process that takes place in the body)

Derivation:

tan (get a tan, from wind or sun)

-ing form of the verb tan