beating vs tanning

beating and tanning both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
beating	Yes	No	No	No
tanning	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tanning is a hyponym of beating; that is, tanning is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than beating:

Other hyponyms of beating include flagellation, flogging, lashing, whipping, flagellation.

beating (noun)	tanning (noun)
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows	making leather from rawhide
the act of overcoming or outdoing	beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment
	process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light