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Look up: TAN

  1. TAN
    See Tax Anticipation Note.
    Found on http://www.oasismanagement.com/glossary/

  2. tan
    [adj] - of a light yellowish-brown color 2. [n] - a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun 3. [n] - a light brown 4. [v] - treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather 5. [v] - get a tan, from wind or sun
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. tan
    wooden platform about 3 ft high around zendo where trainees sit, eat and sleep
    Found on http://www.horne28.freeserve.co.uk/zengl

  4. TAN
    The American Nurse [periodical, périodique]
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acrony

  5. TAN
    Tremor Action Network
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acrony

  6. tan
    Definition (keystage 3) tan is an abbreviation for the tangent of an angle.<br /> Given an angle θ inside a right angled triangle:<br /><br /> tan θ = opposite adjacent <br /><br />where opposite is the length of the side opposite θ , and adjacent is the length of the side next to θ .
    Found on http://thesaurus.maths.org/mmkb/entry.ht

  7. Tan
    Tan noun [ Chin.] See Picul .
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/8

  8. Tan
    Tan noun [ French tan , perhaps from Armor. tann an oak, oak bar; or of Teutonic origin; confer German tanne a fir, Old High German tanna a fir, oak, Middle High German tan a forest. Confer Tawny .] 1. The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Call ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/8

  9. Tan
    Tan adjective Of the color of tan; yellowish- brown. Black and tan . See under Black , adjective
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/8

  10. Tan
    Tan transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Tanned ; present participle & verbal noun Tanning .] [ French tanner , Late Latin tannare . See Tan , noun ] 1. To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/8

  11. Tan
    Tan intransitive verb To get or become tanned.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/8

  12. Tan
    Tan transitive verb To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch. [ Colloq.]
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/8

  13. tan
    1. To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water. ... The essential result in tanning is due to the ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  14. tan
    adjective of a light yellowish-brown color
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. tan
    topaz noun a light brown the color of topaz
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  16. tan
    suntan noun a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  17. Tan
    `Tan` can mean several things: * Tan (color), the color * Tanning, the process of making leather from hides * Sun tanning, the darkening of skin in response to ultraviolet light * Tangent, a mathematical trigonometric function tan(x) * Tan (or Tanfana, Tamfana), ancient European goddess * Tan (surname) (è­š), a Chinese surname *`Tan`, or `DÄÂ?n` (èÂ?Æ’), is the posthumous name of Lao Zi (Lao Tzu). * TAN Books & Publishers, a Catholic publishing comp...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tan

  18. tan
    (tan) a light brown color. In persons with light-colored skin, this color is acquired by sun or ultraviolet exposure. The change results from darkening of preformed melanin (the Meirowsky phenomenon), accelerated formation of new melanin, and retention of melanin in the epidermis as a result of retardation of keratinization.&...
    Found on http://www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns

  19. Tan
    • (v. t.) To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch. • (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. • (n.) See Picul. • (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tanni...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  20. Tan
    Tan is a Vietnamese boy name. The meaning of the name is `New ` The name Tan doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Tan seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/boys/Tan

  21. TaN
    Tantalum(III) Nitride Molar mass: 194.9546
    Found on http://www.convertunits.com/molarmass/Ta

  22. TAN
    Tax Anticipation Note.
    Found on http://www.emuni.com/glossary.html

  23. TAN
    (Total) acid number
    Found on http://www.noria.com/dictionary/default.

  24. tan
    a traditional Chinese weight unit, now spelled dan in English transliteration. During the European colonial era the tan was equal to 100 cattys or 1600 taels. This is equivalent to 133.333 pounds, making the tan comparable to the European quintal as a commercial weight unit. In modern China the tan, or rather the dan, is equal to 100 jin, which is ...
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictT.

  25. tan
    a traditional unit of land area in Japan equal to 10 se or about 991.7 square meters (0.099 hectare or 0.245 acre).
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictT.


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23 November 2009

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At sixteen minutes past five on 23rd November 1963, a British television institution was born. Doctor Who would go on to become the longest-running science-fiction programme in the world, eventually spawning twenty six seasons of adventures from 1963 to 1989. In total, eight actors have played the part of Gallifrey's most famous Time Lord. From the very first - William Hartnell in 1963 - to the very last - Paul McGann, in the 1996 TV Movie - the Doctor has wandered through time and space in his trusty time machine, an old type-40 TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space). Although appearing to be nothing more than a battered blue police box, it is in fact vastly bigger on the inside than on the outside, and always departs with its familiar wheezing, groaning sound. read more

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