Khaki vs Tan - What's the difference?
khaki | tan |
A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
* 1899 , Rudyard Kipling, The Absent-Minded Beggar
Khaki green, a dull green colour.
* 1921 ,
* 2007 , Yuji Matsuki, American Fighters Over Europe: Colors & Markings of USAAF Fighters in WWII, page 4, ISBN 0890247110.
* 2010 , Martin Windrow, French Foreign Legion: Infantry and Cavalry since 1945 , page 52, ISBN 1855326213.
* Op. cit. , page 56
A strong cloth of wool or cotton, often used for military or other uniforms.
(South Africa, slang) A British person (from the colour of the uniform of British troops).
A symbol of the trigonometric function tangent.
As nouns the difference between khaki and tan
is that khaki is a dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust while tan is a yellowish-brown colour.As adjectives the difference between khaki and tan
is that khaki is dust-coloured; of the colour of dust while tan is of a yellowish-brown.As a verb tan is
to change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun.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.khaki
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* (l)Noun
(en noun)- When you've shouted "Rule Britannia", when you've sung "God Save The Queen",
When you've finished killing Kruger with your mouth;
Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine
For a gentleman in khaki ordered South?
War work of the Bureau of Standards, no. 46, page 54.
- The English Government for a long time has used a type of pigmented dope cover, khaki colored by iron pigments and lampblack, which is called P. C. 10.
- At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army Air Service painted everything khaki'. This ' khaki was practically the same as British PC10 and can be considered the basis of the later olive drab color.
- In these notes we have used the British rather than the US terms for colours: i.e. 'khaki' here means the drab brown - US 'olive drab' - used for woolen uniforms and 'khaki drill' for the pale yellowish tan - US 'khaki' - used for lightweight summer/tropical dress.
- The very loose seroual trousers were made in both sand-khaki drill, and in winter-weight khaki wool for wear with the M1946 battledress blouse.