Skin

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English

Noun

Skin (countable and uncountable; plural Skins)
  1. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
    • He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
  2. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  3. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  4. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
    • In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you'll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.
  5. (countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
    • You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
  6. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
    • Pass me a skin, mate.
  7. (countable, slang) Short for skinhead.
  8. (Australian) A subgroup within an Australian aboriginal people, also called a section, subsection, or moiety. These divisions are cultural, not related to a person's physical skin. (Reference: Macquarie Aboriginal Words, Macquarie University, 1994, paperback ISBN 0-949757-79-9, introduction.)
  9. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.
  10. (slang) nudity, particular bare breasts.
    • Let me see a bit of skin.

Synonyms

  • (outer covering of living tissue): dermis, integument, tegument
  • (outer protective layer of a plant or animal): peel (of fruit or vegetable), pericarp
  • (skin of an animal used by humans): hide, pelt
  • (congealed layer on the surface of a liquid): film

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun skin

See also

Verb

Skin (third-person singular simple present Skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

  1. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
    • He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
  2. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  3. (colloquial) To high five.
  4. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
    • Can I skin the program to put the picture of my cat on it?
  5. (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
    • 2011 Kevin Darlng Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield
    The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.

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Derived terms

Adjectives for Skin

clear; ruddy; tanned; mortal; dainty tawny; parchment; tender; dry; scratchy shaggy; accumulated; tough; defensive roughened; ivory; olive; ardent; incarnate wrinkled; transparent; sensitive; sleekest edible; sunburned; lustrous; untanned; sallow; gay; dead; painted; scaling; waxy; bronzed; superfluous; crinkled; redundant mottled; narrow.

Verbs for Skin

affect—; aggravate—; bathe—; chafe— dust—; enervate—; expose—; harden—; in' flame—; ingrain—; injure—; irritate—; macerate—; paint—; pat—; peel—; prick —; pull off—; rejuvenate—; rinse—; rub —; ruffle—; safeguard—; save one's—; scratch—; shed—; smear—; soften—; soothe —; sponge—; ulcerate—; —adapts; — blanches; —erupts; —forms; —furrows; — glows; —jaundices; —parches; —quivers; —scars; —shrinks; —splits; —stains; — thickens ; —warts ; —wrinkles.

Thesaurus

C, C-note, G, G-note, IUD, ablate, abrade, abrase, acne, acne vulgaris, bag, bark, barrel, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beeline, best, bill, birth control device, blame, bleed, bleed white, blemish, bloody, bone, border, bran, break, buck, bucket, bullet, burn, capsule, cartwheel, case, casing, censure, cent, century, chafe, chaff, cheapskate, cheat, check, chip, circumference, clad, claw, clip, clobber, coat, coating, collop, con man, condemn, condom, contraceptive, contraceptive foam, copper, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk, cortex, cover, covering, crack, craze, crust, cursoriness, cut, cut off, deal, decorticate, defeat, defoliate, defrauder, denounce, denude, denunciate, deplume, derma, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, despoil, destroy, diaphragm, diddler, dime, disk, dismember, displume, divest, do in, dollar, dollar bill, double-dealer, drain, draw and quarter, drub, dry, eczema, elephantiasis, enamel, envelope, epicarp, epidermis, epithelioma, erase, erode, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, excoriate, exhaust, exploit, exterior, exteriority, external, facade, face, facet, facing, fell, feuille, fifty cents, file, film, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, fix, flap, flay, fleece, fleet, flimflammer, foil, fold, four bits, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fringe, frogskin, front, fur, gall, gash, gloss, gnaw, gnaw away, gouge, grand, grate, graze, grind, gyp, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, haste, hasten, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hide, highball, hives, hold up, hors de combat, hull, hundred-dollar bill, hurt, husk, hustle, impetigo, impoverish, incise, incrustation, injure, integument, intrauterine device, iron man, itch, jacket, jungle rot, knock, lacerate, lacquer, lambaste, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lather, leaf, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lick, lineaments, lupus, lupus vulgaris, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, maul, membrane, mere scratch, miliaria, milk, mill, mutilate, nickel, niggard, no depth, no water, oral contraceptive, outclass, outdo, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outfight, outgeneral, outline, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, outside, overcharge, overlay, overprice, overtax, paint, palea, pane, panel, pare, patina, peel, peeling, pellicle, pelt, pemphigus, penny, periphery, pessary, phellum, pick clean, pick to pieces, pierce, pinprick, plait, plank, plate, plating, pluck, ply, plywood, pod, prickly heat, profiteer, prophylactic, pruigo, pruritus, psora, pull apart, pull off, puncture, put, quarter, rap, rasher, rasp, raze, red cent, rend, reprehend, reprobate, revetment, rind, ringworm, rip, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubber, ruin, run, rupture, safety glass, savage, sawbuck, scabies, scald, scale, scalp, scorch, scotch, scour, scrape, scratch, screw, scrooge, scrub, scuff, scum, settle, shallowness, sharper, shear, sheath, sheathing, sheet, shell, shingles, shoaliness, shred, shuck, side, siding, silver dollar, skin alive, skin cancer, skinflint, slab, slash, slat, slice, slightness, slit, slough, smacker, soak, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, sprain, stab, stick, stiff, sting, strain, strip, strip bare, suck dry, superficiality, superficies, superstratum, surcharge, surface, swindle, table, tablet, take apart, take the cake, tear, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, tetter, the pill, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, thrash, tightwad, top, traumatize, trim, triumph, triumph over, triviality, trounce, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, undo, varnish, veneer, victimize, wafer, wear, wear away, whip, win, worst, wound, wrench, yard

Etymology

From Middle English skinn, from Old Norse skinn 'animal hide', from Proto-Germanic *skinþan (cf. Old English scinn 'hide', Dutch (Flemish) schinde 'bark', German dialect Schinde 'fruit peel'), from pre-Celtic/Germanic *skento (cf. Breton skant 'scales', Old Irish ceinn 'id.'), from Proto-Indo-European *skend- 'to split off' (cf. Irish scainim 'I tear, burst', Latin scindere 'to split, divide', Sanskrit chinátti 'he splits'), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d 'to cut'. More at shed.

Pronunciation

Translations

Noun

outer covering of the body of a person
the outer protective layer of any plant or animal
skin of an animal used by humans
congealed layer on the surface of a liquid
image used as the background of graphical user interface
rolling paper for cigarettes
skinhead
a subgroup within an Australian aboriginal people
An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.
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Verb

to injure the skin of
to remove the skin of
to use a replacement image for the graphical user interface of

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

Skin n. (singular definite skinnet, not used in plural form)

  1. light, glare
  2. semblance

Verb

Skin

  1. imperative of skinne

Dutch

Noun

Skin m. and f. (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje, diminutive plural skinnetjes)

  1. Skin (computing).
  2. Short for skinhead.

Anagrams

Icelandic

Noun

Skin n.

  1. shine, shimmer, brightness

Etymology

From skína (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /scɪːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪːn
    Homophones: skyn

Declension

declension of Skin</small>
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative skin skinið skin skinin
accusative skin skinið skin skinin
dative skini skininu skinum skinunum
genitive skins skinsins skina skinanna

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Swedish

Verb

Skin

  1. imperative of skina.

Tok Pisin

Noun

Skin

  1. (anatomy) skin

Volapük

Noun

Skin (plural Skins)

  1. skin

Declension

    declension of Skin</small>
singular plural
nominative Skin Skins
genitive Skina Skinas
dative Skine Skines
accusative Skini Skinis
predicative Skinu Skinus
vocative o Skin! o Skins!

Derived terms

Terms derived from skin
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