English Explanatory Dictionary

skin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
  2. The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
  3. The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  4. A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
  5. A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
  6. An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
  7. Rolling paper for cigarettes.
  8. Clipping of skinhead.
  9. A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.
  10. Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
  11. Clipping of drumskin
  12. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
verb
  1. To injure the skin of.
  2. To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  3. To high five.
  4. To apply a skin to (a computer program).
  5. To use tricks to go past a defender.
  6. To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer.
  7. To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  8. To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
  9. To strip of money or property; to cheat.
  10. To sneak off.
  11. To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or canvas.
  12. Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”)

Pronunciation

skĭn /skɪn/ en-us-skin.ogg en-uk-skin.ogg en-au-skin.ogg

Word forms

skin skins skinne skinning skinned

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”).

Synonyms

peel pericarp hide pelt film moiety bark chafe excoriate graze scrape flay fleece flense scalp

Related words

cutaneous cutis dermis epidermis

Derived words

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 dogskin don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear dragonskin drakeskin drumskin eelskin elephant skin elkskin e-skin fawnskin fishskin fish-skin disease fish skin fish-skin Fish-skin Tartar foreskin foxskin frogskin get underneath someone's skin get under someone's skin

Translations

Abkhaz: ацәа Acehnese: kulet Afar: aráb Afar: galbó Afrikaans: vel Dupaningan Agta: gaddang Ainu: カㇷ゚ Aiton: ꩫ︀င︀် Albanian: lëkurë Southern Altai: тере Ama: tono Amharic: ቆዳ Ao: teküp (Chungli) Arabic: جِلْد Arabic: بَشَرة Arabic: جلد Arabic: بشرة Arabic: بَشَرَة Arabic: بشره Arabic: قشرة Aragonese: pelello 'Are'are: hinasuna Armenian: մաշկ Armenian: մորթ Aromanian: cheali Aromanian: coaji Eastern Arrernte: yenpe Assamese: ছাল Asturian: pelleyu Asturian: piel Avar: тӏом Avar: хъал Avestan: 𐬯𐬎𐬭𐬍 Azerbaijani: dəri Azerbaijani: qabıq West Coast Bajau: kulit Bangi: loposo Bangi: eteke Bashkir: тире Bashkir: ҡабыҡ Basque: azal Belarusian: ску́ра Belarusian: лупі́на Belarusian: ску́рка Bengali: ত্বক Bhojpuri: चमड़ा Bau Bidayuh: kurit Central Bikol: kublit Breton: kroc'hen Bulgarian: ко́жа Bulgarian: кора́ Burmese: အရေ Buryat: арһан Catalan: pell Cebuano: panit Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⵍⵎ Eastern Cham: ꨆꨤꨪꩀ Dutch: een skin gebruiken Finnish: asettaa taustakuvaksi
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