Taboo vs. Tattoo: What's the Difference?

Taboo and Tattoo Definitions
Taboo
A ban or inhibition resulting from social custom or emotional aversion.
Tattoo
A signal sounded on a drum or bugle to summon soldiers or sailors to their quarters at night.
Taboo
A prohibition, especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands, excluding something from use, approach, or mention because of its sacred and inviolable nature.
Tattoo
A display of military exercises and music offered as evening entertainment.
Taboo
An object, word, or act protected by such a prohibition.
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Tattoo
A continuous, even drumming or rapping.
Taboo
Excluded or forbidden from use, approach, or mention
A taboo subject.
Tattoo
A permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment or by raising scars.
Taboo
To exclude from use, approach, or mention; place under taboo.
Tattoo
A design made on the skin with a temporary dye such as henna or ink.
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Taboo
An inhibition or ban that results from social custom or emotional aversion.
Tattoo
To beat out an even rhythm, as with the fingers.
Taboo
(in Polynesia) Something which may not be used, approached or mentioned because it is sacred.
Tattoo
To beat or tap rhythmically on; rap or drum on.
Taboo
Excluded or forbidden from use, approach or mention.
Incest is a taboo subject in most soap operas.
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Tattoo
To mark (the skin) with a tattoo.
Taboo
Culturally forbidden.
Tattoo
To form (a tattoo) on the skin.
Taboo
To mark as taboo.
Tattoo
An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
Taboo
To ban.
Tattoo
A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface with a sharp instrument (usually a solenoid-driven needle).
Taboo
To avoid.
Tattoo
(nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
Taboo
A total prohibition of intercourse with, use of, or approach to, a given person or thing under pain of death, - an interdict of religious origin and authority, formerly common in the islands of Polynesia; interdiction.
Tattoo
(military) A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
Taboo
To put under taboo; to forbid, or to forbid the use of; to interdict approach to, or use of; as, to taboo the ground set apart as a sanctuary for criminals.
Tattoo
(military) A military display or pageant.
Taboo
Set apart or sacred by religious custom among certain races of Polynesia, New Zealand, etc., and forbidden to certain persons or uses; hence, prohibited under severe penalties; interdicted; as, food, places, words, customs, etc., may be taboo.
Tattoo
A pony of a certain breed from India.
Taboo
A prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
Tattoo
To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
Taboo
An inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
Tattoo
(baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
Taboo
Declare as sacred and forbidden
Tattoo
To tap rhythmically on, to drum.
Taboo
Excluded from use or mention;
Forbidden fruit
In our house dancing and playing cards were out
A taboo subject
Tattoo
A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.
Taboo
Forbidden to profane use especially in South Pacific islands
Tattoo
An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; - a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.
Tattoo
To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.
Tattoo
A drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters
Tattoo
A design on the skin made by tattooing
Tattoo
The practice of making a design on the skin by pricking and staining
Tattoo
Stain (skin) with indelible color