Taan vs Tarn - What's the difference?
taan | tarn |
A rapid melodic vocal technique in raga singing.
*1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 147:
*:Her voice was steady as a surgeon's hand. When it zigzagged, it was because she wanted to take a taan that slithered like a snake as it flashed past, progressing sideways across the sand.
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(Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
* 1839, (1997),
As nouns the difference between taan and tarn
is that taan is a rapid melodic vocal technique in raga singing while tarn is tower.As a verb tarn is
.taan
English
Noun
(en noun)tarn
English
Noun
(en noun)1,
- It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.