licking vs tanning

licking and tanning both are nouns.

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

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

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

licking (noun)	tanning (noun)
the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows	making leather from rawhide
an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest	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