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Skin
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- 1 The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human. uncountable
"He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl."
- 2 body covering of a living animal wordnet
- 3 The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant. uncountable
- 4 an outer surface (usually thin) wordnet
- 5 The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc. countable
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- 6 a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal wordnet
- 7 A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid. countable
"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."
- 8 a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch wordnet
- 9 A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program. countable
"You can use this skin to change how the browser looks."
- 10 the rind of a fruit or vegetable wordnet
- 11 An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game. countable
"My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite."
- 12 a person whose head is bald or shaved wordnet
- 13 Rolling paper for cigarettes. countable, slang
"Pass me a skin, mate."
- 14 a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent wordnet
- 15 Clipping of skinhead. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, slang
"By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts."
- 16 a person's skin regarded as their life wordnet
- 17 A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people. Australia, countable, uncountable
"The younger brother questions the correctness of the pursuit of the girls. "They may be of the wrong subsection," he suggests. "We can take wrong skins," says the older brother, but the younger still holds back."
- 18 Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts. countable, slang, uncountable
"Let me see a bit of skin."
- 19 A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. countable, uncountable
"the Bacchic train, Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes"
- 20 That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole. countable, uncountable
"The skin of the sail is made of stretch-resistant Mylar"
- 21 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. countable, uncountable
- 22 The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft. countable, uncountable
- 23 A drink of whisky served hot. countable, uncountable
- 24 A person; chap. British, Ireland, countable, slang, uncountable
"He was a decent old skin."
- 25 A purse. UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable
"[…] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin."
- 1 To injure the skin of. transitive
"He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete."
- 2 remove the skin from wordnet
- 3 To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human. transitive
- 4 remove the bark of a tree wordnet
- 5 To high five. colloquial
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- 6 bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of wordnet
- 7 To apply a skin to (a computer program). colloquial, transitive
"Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?"
- 8 climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling wordnet
- 9 To use tricks to go past a defender. UK, transitive
"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."
- 10 To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer. intransitive
"A wound eventually skins over."
- 11 To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially. transitive
"It will but skin and film the ulcerous place."
- 12 To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited. US, archaic, slang
- 13 To strip of money or property; to cheat. dated, slang
- 14 To sneak off. intransitive, obsolete, slang
- 15 To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or canvas. transitive
- 16 Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”) abbreviation, alt-of
Etymology
From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide. Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).
From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide. Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).
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