Tan vs Fawn - What's the difference?
tan | fawn |
A symbol of the trigonometric function tangent.
A young deer.
A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
(obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
* Holland
Of the fawn colour.
To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on'' or ''upon ).
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Macaulay
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, chapter=2 (of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.
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In intransitive terms the difference between tan and fawn
is that tan is to change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun while fawn is to seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon).As a numeral tan
is the second cardinal number two, formerly used in Celtic areas, especially Cumbria and parts of Yorkshire, for counting sheep, and stitches in knitting.See Wikipedia article on Yan Tan TetheraAs a proper noun Tan
is an English surname derived from the transliteration of various Asian surnames, particularly originating from China and Vietnam.As an initialism TAN
is Total Acid Number, the measure of a lubricant's or crude oil's acidity.tan
Translingual
(wikipedia tan)Symbol
(head)Synonyms
* (l) ----fawn
English
(wikipedia fawn)Etymology 1
From (etyl) faon.Noun
(en noun)- [The tigress] after her fawns .
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* fawn lilyEtymology 2
From (etyl) fawnen, from (etyl) fahnian, fagnian, . See also fain.Verb
(en verb)- You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.
- Thou with trembling fear, / Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.
- courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him
citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}