What's the difference between tan and tangent?

Tan


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown.
  • (n.) See Picul.
  • (n.) 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. Called also tan bark.
  • (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan.
  • (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan.
  • (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 tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water.
  • (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin.
  • (v. i.) To get or become tanned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
  • (2) In t(7;9)(q34;q34.3) translocations from three cases of T-ALL, the breakpoints occur within 100 bp of an intron in TAN-1, resulting in truncation of TAN-1 transcripts.
  • (3) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
  • (4) Both internalized and cellularly enveloped hexamethylenediisocyanate-tanned dermal sheep collagen degraded by the detachment of fibrils.
  • (5) This demonstrates that a UVA tan provides photoprotection against acute UVA exposure.
  • (6) In this study the efficacy of preserving microvascular heterografts with glutaraldehyde tanning was investigated.
  • (7) A comparative study of tanned cell hemagglutination (TCH) and counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE), two easy and reliable methodes for the routine detection of antibodies against nuclear antigens was performed.
  • (8) Mackay confirmed following Saturday's 2-1 defeat by Newcastle United that a resolution had been reached over the issue but Cardiff's players are reportedly no longer happy for Tan to be in the dressing room on match days.
  • (9) Reversible binding of BAN and TAN had Ki values of 1 x 10(-9) and 1 x 10(-10) M, respectively as determined by log probit plots.
  • (10) These findings are relevant to the risk-benefit analysis of sunscreen preparations, especially in skin type II, as they provide evidence that a 5-methoxypsoralen-induced tan is protective against the DNA-damaging effects of solar UV radiation, and thus has the potential to reduce the carcinogenic risk of exposure to such radiation.
  • (11) Modified human umbilical vein allografts tanned with glutaraldehyde and encased in a polyester mesh were used as arterial substitutes in 13 femoropopliteal reconstructive procedures.
  • (12) Patients with polymorphic light eruption who intend to obtain a tan by sunbathing should not, therefore, be treated with sunscreens which may worsen their rash, but should be advised to sunbathe without sunscreens for a shorter time.
  • (13) At higher concentrations, O2 and TAN sensitize the fast-stage damage by a fixation reaction that competes with its repair; in contrast, misonidazole appears mainly to operate by reaction with an earlier, ever shorter form of oxygen-dependent damage.
  • (14) I asked if they had a black baby face, and my mother even asked if they had a “tan” baby (since my husband is white and our child will be biracial), but the sales woman told me that their babies only came in black and white.
  • (15) The potency and selectivity of D,L-4-(3,4-dichloro-benzoyl-amino)-5-(dipentyl-amino)-5-oxo-pen tan oic acid (CR 1409) as a cholecystokinin (CCK) antagonist was investigated on motor responses of the longitudinal and circular muscles of the guinea-pig isolated ileum.
  • (16) This article examines the indoor tanning industry, the effects of ultraviolet-A radiation, and public education.
  • (17) The foal with acute disease had distinct green-tan focal necrosis and thickened mucosa of the large intestine.
  • (18) The carcinogenic effect of 3 commercially available ultraviolet A (UVA) tanning sources was studied in lightly pigmented hairless mice.
  • (19) All tumors occurred as solitary, soft to firm, solid, tan, and ulcerated masses in the digits of dogs aged 11 to 15 years.
  • (20) Anti-hTG titers far below those detected by the tanned-red cell hemagglutination test had very large effects, to the point where measurements of hTG could not be made, when a cross-reactive precipitating antiserum was used.

Tangent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function.
  • (a.) Touching; touching at a single point
  • (a.) meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The association constants and the binding capacities of association of small molecules with macromolecules have been determined by the tangent analysis, the graphical analysis, and the computer data analysis, by trial and convergence of the Scatchard plot.
  • (2) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
  • (3) Two principles have to be considered: 1. the image of a curved surface will only show the surface area where the rays form a tangent to the surface; 2. in tomography the blurring of the image increases with an increase of the tomographic angle and the distance of the object to the plane in focus.
  • (4) Tangent-screen visual fields were compared with the fields determined by a newly acquired automated perimeter in 100 eyes of consecutive patients with glaucoma or suspected glaucoma.
  • (5) The mathematical method was more practical and overcame the variability of the tangent method.
  • (6) First the angle between the line drawn along the right upper lobe artery and the tangent drawn along the point of junction of superior and lateral borders of the right pulmonary artery was determined.
  • (7) Extracellular recordings were made from afferents to the Purkinje cells of the flocculus of monkeys either spontaneously making saccadic eye movements (saccades) or trained to fixate a small visual target projected on a tangent screen.
  • (8) Twelve of 16 dissatisified bifocal contact lens wearers (75%) were successfully fit with the Tangent Streak trifocal.
  • (9) In his four-star review for the Guardian, Michael Billington described the production as "an exuberantly inventive evening, one existing in its own right at a tangent to the original".
  • (10) The tangent values were calculated from the curves that correlate well with the degrees of nuclear cataract.
  • (11) We propose a correction, the hyperbolic tangent, to linearize the data over all sizes, and we discuss evolutionary reasons for the relatively small brain size of the largest vertebrates.
  • (12) With the manual (Goldmann) perimeter and the tangent screen, special statokinetic techniques help in both assessment and enhancement of patient reliability.
  • (13) The approximated curve of the corneal posterior curvature and the line tangent to the anterior surface of the iris were calculated as the anterior chamber angle.
  • (14) This algorithm, named 'tangent exponential' was demonstrated to converge for all initial conditions when the initial substrate concentration is positive.
  • (15) (4) The angle of the tangent to any segment of the curve of Spee to the plane of motion determines the optimal height and angulation of the cusps of the segment.
  • (16) The morphology of the facial surface can be described by an angle formed between the tangent at the point of bracket placement and the long axis of the crown.
  • (17) Enamel had a modulus which was approximately three to five times higher, and a lower loss tangent than those of dentin.
  • (18) Presently, by applying the considerations of Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics, the Langevin function is shown as the appropriate and justifiable sigmoid (instead of the conventional hyperbolic tangent function) to depict the bipolar nonlinear logic-operation enunciated by the collective stochastical response of artificial neurons under activation.
  • (19) Patients were treated with either tangential fields alone (n = 508) or tangents with a third field to the supraclavicular (SC) or SC-axillary (AX) region (n = 1116).
  • (20) 4.32pm: "I love Portuguese sardines," announces Kanjorski, going off at a slightly eccentric tangent.

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