Synonyms of the word

tan

• n. A yellowish-brown colour.
• n. A darkening of the skin resulting from exposure to sunlight or similar light sources.
• n. The bark of an oak or other tree from which tannic acid is obtained.
• adj. Of a yellowish-brown.
• adj. Having dark skin as a result of exposure to the sun.
• v. (intransitive) To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
• v. (transitive) To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner.
• v. (transitive, informal) To spank or beat.
• num. (dialect, rare) The second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and…
• n. An Armenian drink made of yoghurt and water similar to airan and doogh.
• n. Synonym of picul, particularly in Cantonese contexts.
• n. (dialectal) A twig or small switch.

bronze

• n. (uncountable) A natural or man-made alloy of copper, usually of tin, but also with one or more other metals.
• n. (countable and uncountable) A reddish-brown colour, the colour of bronze.
• n. (countable) A work of art made of bronze, especially a sculpture.
• n. A bronze medal.
• n. Boldness; impudence; brass.
• adj. Made of bronze metal.
• adj. Having a reddish-brown colour.
• adj. (of the skin) Tanned; darkened as a result of exposure to the sun.
• v. (transitive) To plate with bronze.
• v. (transitive) To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan.
• v. (intransitive, of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun.
• v. (transitive) To make hard or unfeeling; to brazen.

burn

• n. A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals.
• n. A sensation resembling such an injury.
• n. The act of burning something.
• n. (slang) An intense non-physical sting, as left by shame or an effective insult.
• n. (slang) An effective insult, often in the expression sick burn (excellent or badass insult).
• n. Physical sensation in the muscles following strenuous exercise, caused by build-up of lactic acid.
• n. (Britain, chiefly prison slang) tobacco.
• n. The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
• n. A disease in vegetables; brand.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be consumed by fire.
• v. (intransitive) To be consumed by fire, or in flames.
• v. (transitive) To overheat so as to make unusable.
• v. (intransitive) To become overheated to the point of being unusable.
• v. (transitive) To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
• v. (transitive) To injure (a person or animal) with heat or caustic chemicals.
• v. (transitive, surgery) To cauterize.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To sunburn.
• v. (transitive) To consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect…
• v. (intransitive) To be hot, e.g. due to embarrassment.
• v. (chemistry, transitive) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat;…
• v. (chemistry, dated) To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
• v. (transitive, computing) To write data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
• v. (transitive, slang) To betray.
• v. (transitive, slang) To insult or defeat.
• v. (transitive) To waste (time).
• v. In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
• v. (intransitive, curling) To accidentally touch a moving stone.
• v. (transitive, card games) In pontoon, to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a dead card.
• v. (photography) To increase the exposure for certain areas of a print in order to make them lighter (compare…
• n. (Scotland, Northern England) A stream.

chromatic

• adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
• adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
• adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

color

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. (in the plural) The flag of a nation or team.
• n. (in the plural) Gang insignia.
• n. The system of color television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. (military, in the plural) The morning ceremony of raising the flag.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or facade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin color noted as: normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray.
• v. To give something color.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colors to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two adjacent…

colour

• n. (uncountable) The spectral composition of visible light.
• n. (countable) A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class.
• n. (uncountable) Hue as opposed to achromatic colours (black, white and greys).
• n. (uncountable) Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity.
• n. (figuratively) Interest, especially in a selective area.
• n. (heraldry) Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and…
• n. (in the plural) A standard or banner.
• n. The system of colour television.
• n. (in the plural) An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university.
• n. In corporate finance, details on sales, profit margins, or other financial figures, especially while reviewing…
• n. (physics) A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange…
• n. (typography) The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page.
• n. (snooker) Any of the coloured balls excluding the reds.
• n. A front or façade: an ostensible truth actually false.
• n. An appearance of right or authority.
• n. (medicine) Skin colour noted as: normal, jaundice, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of…
• adj. Conveying colour, as opposed to shades of grey.
• v. To give something colour.
• v. (intransitive) To apply colours to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using coloured markers…
• v. (of a face) To become red through increased blood flow.
• v. To affect without completely changing.
• v. (informal) To attribute a quality to.
• v. (mathematics) To assign colours to the vertices of (a graph) or the regions of (a map) so that no two…

convert

• n. A person who has converted to a religion.
• n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
• v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
• v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
• v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
• v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
• v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
• v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• v. (intransitive) To become converted.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
• v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

discolor

• v. (American) To change or lose color.

discolour

• v. (British spelling, Canadian, transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of discolor (US).

hyperpigmentation

• n. The darkening of an area of skin or nails, caused by increased melanin.

sunburn

• n. A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
• v. (intransitive) To receive a sunburn.
• v. (transitive) To burn or discolour by the sun; to tan.

suntan

• n. In humans a brown or darkened coloration of the skin caused by exposure to ultraviolet light.
• v. To obtain a suntan by exposure to ultraviolet light.
• v. To attempt to obtain a suntan.

tangent

• n. (geometry) A straight line touching a curve at a single point without crossing it there.
• n. (mathematics) A function of an angle that gives the ratio of the sine to the cosine, in either the real…
• n. A topic nearly unrelated to the main topic, but having a point in common with it.
• n. A small metal blade by which a clavichord produces sound.
• adj. (geometry) Touching a curve at a single point but not crossing it at that point.
• adj. Of a topic, only loosely related to a main topic.

topaz

• n. a silicate mineral of aluminium and fluorine, usually tinted by impurities.
• n. An often clear, yellowish-brown gemstone cut therefrom.
• n. A yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.
• n. (historical, British India) A black Catholic soldier in the British Army.
• adj. Of a yellowish-brown color, like that of the gemstone.