tattoo
Other forms: tattooed; tattooing; tattoos
A tattoo is a permanent design made on skin with a needle and ink. If you want a butterfly tattoo but you're scared of needles, you might settle for a temporary version.
The word tattoo is also a verb meaning stain the skin using needles and ink. It's probably a good idea to wait until you've been dating someone for more than a week before you tattoo their name on your arm. In music, a tattoo is continuous drumming, and a military tattoo is a drum or bugle that signals soldiers to return to their quarters at the end of the day.
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a design on the skin made by tattooing
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the practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and stainingtype of:decorationthe act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)
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stain (skin) with indelible colortype of:staincolor with a liquid dye or tint
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a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarterstype of:bugle calla signal broadcast by the sound of a bugledrumbeat(military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown
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Vocabulary lists containing tattoo
As you read Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 8's Collection 2: The Tell-Tale Heart, Scary Tales, The Monkey's Paw, What Is the Horror Genre?
"I before E except after C." It's weird how often spelling rules like that don't work in English! Instead of spending countless hours learning a ton of spelling rules and hundreds of exceptions, choose the Spelling Bee activity to brush up on these commonly misspelled English words. It's an ingenious way for you to become a spelling genius! Here are links to our lists in the collection: List 1, List 2, List 3, List 4, List 5, List 6
Vocabulary from Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."