tanned
part of speech
adjective (tanned); also past form of the verb tan (tan, tans, tanned, tanning)
meaning for a pupil
1) Tanned skin has become darker after being in the sun. tree →
2) Tanned leather is animal skin that has been made into leather by a special treatment. tree →
3) (UK, informal, old) To tan someone's hide is to beat them — an old rough phrase. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Tradition often reads the Song of Songs as a story of God and Israel, and the tanned maiden as Israel in a hard exile. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and stories it describes people after a holiday in the sun; in safety and science lessons, a tan is the skin's reaction to sun, and too much sun can burn and harm skin, so use sun cream. In history and crafts, tanners made leather. Phrases: tanned skin, get tanned, sun-tanned.
examples
- Look not upon me, that I am swarthy, that the sun hath tanned me; my mother's sons were incensed against me, they made me keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.' (Writings SNG.1.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- She came back from Spain looking tanned. tree →
- His arms were tanned from working in the garden. tree →
- A tan is a sign your skin has had too much sun, so wear sun cream. tree →
- The belt was made of tanned leather. tree →
- The tanned surfer waved to us. tree →
- You can get tanned even on a cloudy day. tree →
- But there he was, a young man, tanned and dusty with travel, in the uniform of an officer of the king’s guard. tree →
note
Double n: tan → tanned, tanning. «Suntanned» means the same as tanned skin. Myth: a tan is not «healthy» — it means the sun has damaged the skin a little. Do not mix up with «tan» the light brown colour.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tanned» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.