skin

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.3 See also 1.2.4 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Noun 4 Icelandic 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Declension 4.1.2 Derived terms 5 Tok Pisin 5.1 Noun

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[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /skɪn/, SAMPA: /skIn/

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  Rhymes: -ɪn

[edit] 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.

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• (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

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[edit] See also

• cutis
• dermis
• epidermis

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to 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. (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?

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• (injure the skin of): bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
• (remove the skin of): flay, fleece

[edit] Derived terms

• skinner
• skin up
• there's more than one way to skin a cat
• thin-skinned
• tough-skinned

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• Alphagram: ikns
• inks
• sink

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

1. Shine, light, glare.
2. Surface, resemblance.

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

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

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skin n.

1. shine, shimmer, brightness.

[edit] Declension

Declension of skin
	(singular)
	(indefinite)	(definite)
nominative	skin	skinið
accusative	skin	skinið
dative	skini	skininu
genitive	skins	skinsins
Other words with the same declension

[edit] Derived terms

• sólskin

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[edit] Noun

skin

1. (anatomy) skin