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EnglishEdit

 
Anatomy of the human skin
 
Moulted cicada skins

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą (compare Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”) (compare Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “he splits”)), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), see hide. More at shed.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /skɪn/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪn

NounEdit

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.
  6. (countable, computing, graphical user interface) 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.
  7. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
    Pass me a skin, mate.
  8. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
  9. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin. [1]
  10. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.
  11. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
    Let me see a bit of skin.
  12. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
    • Tennyson
      skins of wine
  13. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
  14. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.

SynonymsEdit

HyponymsEdit

Hyponyms of the noun skin

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from the noun skin without the hyponyms

Related termsEdit

Related terms of the noun skin

TranslationsEdit

outer protective of the body of a person or animal
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ReferencesEdit

VerbEdit

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 application to put the picture of my cat on it?
  5. (Britain, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
    • 2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC‎[1]:
      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.
  6. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
    A wound eventually skins over.
  7. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
    • Shakespeare
      It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
  8. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
  9. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from the verb skin

TranslationsEdit

to high five — see high five

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ 1994, Macquarie Aboriginal Words, Macquarie University, paperback →ISBN, Introduction.

AnagramsEdit

DanishEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. light, glare
  2. semblance

VerbEdit

skin

  1. imperative of skinne

DutchEdit

 
Dutch Wikipedia has articles on:
Wikipedia nl

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

skin m, f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)

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

AnagramsEdit

IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From skína (“to shine”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

skin n (genitive singular skins, nominative plural skin)

  1. shine, shimmer, brightness

DeclensionEdit

declension of skin
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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AnagramsEdit

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

skin

  1. Alternative form of skyn

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

skin

  1. present tense of skina
  2. imperative of skina

Old SaxonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From skīnan.

NounEdit

skīn n

  1. shine

PortugueseEdit

NounEdit

skin f (plural skins)

  1. (computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)
  2. (countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)

SwedishEdit

VerbEdit

skin

  1. imperative of skina.

Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

English skin

NounEdit

skin

  1. (anatomy) skin
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:21:

Derived termsEdit

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