skin
nounEtymology
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”).
Definitions
The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
- Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers.
The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
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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.
- Do you eat the skin on custard?
A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user…
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.
An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite.
Rolling paper for cigarettes.
- Pass me a skin, mate.
Clipping of skinhead.
- 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.
A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.
- 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.
Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Let me see a bit of skin.
Clipping of drumskin
A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- the Bacchic train, Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes
That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- The skin of the sail is made of stretch-resistant Mylar
The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and…
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.
The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
A drink of whisky served hot.
A person
A person; chap.
- He was a decent old skin.
- PAUDI:”I fucking love the pair of ye! You’re good lads. You’re loyal skins”
A purse.
- […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.
A member of the team not wearing shirts, in a shirts and skins game.
To injure the skin of.
- He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
To high five.
To apply a skin to (a computer program).
- Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
To use tricks to go past a defender.
To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer.
- A wound eventually skins over.
- Lefotver acrylic paint will often skin as it partially dries.
To cover with skin, or as if with skin
To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to…
To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
To strip of money or property
To strip of money or property; to cheat.
To sneak off.
To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or…
To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or canvas.
Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”)
The neighborhood
- neighborcutaneous
- neighborcutis
- neighbordermis
- neighborepidermis
- neighborbanana skin
- neighborbuckskin
- neighborcalfskin
- neighborcumskin
- neighbordeerskin
- neighbordoeskin
- neighborgoatskin
- neighborgoose skin
Derived
all skin and bones, bareskin, bare-skin, batskin, bearskin, beauty is only skin deep, beaverskin, beetleskin, birdskin, blackskin, blackskinned, boarskin, bronzed skin disease, brown-point shield skin longirostris, brownskin, buffalo-skin, butterfly skin, by the skin of one's teeth, capeskin, caribouskin, catskin, chicken skin, chronic skin-picking, clean skin, cleanskin, clearskin, climbing skin, collect skin, coltskin, combination skin, combo skin, comfortable in one's own skin, comfortable in one's skin, coonskin, coon-skin cap, coon-skin hat, cowskin, darkskin, deer-skin, dickskin · +240 more
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at skin. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at skin. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at skin
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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