Tattoo vs Tattooed - What's the difference?
tattoo | tattooed |
An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin.
To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
(baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
(nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
A military display or pageant.
Having been tattooed with one or more tattoos.
(tattoo)
As verbs the difference between tattoo and tattooed
is that tattoo is to apply a tattoo to (someone or something) while tattooed is past tense of tattoo.As a noun tattoo
is an image made in the skin with ink and a needle.As an adjective tattooed is
having been tattooed with one or more tattoos.tattoo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia tattoo) (en noun)Verb
- Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
Derived terms
* tatt * tattoo artist * tattoo parlour *Etymology 2
From (etyl) taptoe.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) tatt? .tattooed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The man was so heavily tattooed that it was almost impossible to find any bare skin whatever on his body.