skin
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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.
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skin (countable and uncountable; plural skins)
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- (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.
- (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.
- (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
- Pass me a skin, mate.
- (countable, slang) Short for skinhead.
- (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.)
- (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.
- (slang) nudity, particular bare breasts.
- Let me see a bit of skin.
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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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Terms derived from the noun skin
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outer covering of the body of a person
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the outer protective layer of any plant or animal
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skin of an animal used by humans
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congealed layer on the surface of a liquid
image used as the background of graphical user interface
rolling paper for cigarettes
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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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skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)
- (transitive) To injure the skin of.
- He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
- (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- (colloquial) To high five.
- (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?
- (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
- 2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, BBC:
- 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.
- 2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, BBC:
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- (injure the skin of): bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
- (remove the skin of): flay, fleece, flense
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to injure the skin of
to remove the skin of
to use a replacement image for the graphical user interface of
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skin n. (singular definite skinnet, not used in plural form)
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skin
- imperative of skinne
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skin m. and f. (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje)
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From skína (“to shine”).
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skin n.
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declension of skin
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skin
- imperative of skina.
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skin
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skin (plural skins)
- skin
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declension of skin
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Terms derived from skin
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