skin
IPA: skˈɪn
noun
- (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- (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.
- (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.
- (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
- (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
- (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- (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.
- (aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- (slang, Ireland, Britain) person, chap
- (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A purse.
- (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead. [Someone with a shaved head.]
verb
- (transitive) To injure the skin of.
- (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).
- (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
- (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
- (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- (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.
- (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
- (intransitive, obsolete, slang) To sneak off.
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Examples of "skin" in Sentences
- His job is to shear animal skin.
- The face of the skin is very fragile.
- Skin coloration in humans is adaptive and labile.
- The sap of the fig's green parts is an irritant to human skin.
- New skin cells are created in the skin's lower layer, the dermis.
- A galvanic skin response is a measurement of the resistance of the skin.
- It is located in the skin and maintains the complexion and color of skin.
- Namaqua chameleons darken the skin of the side of their body facing the sun.
- Fur is brushed on the skin with carrott, and then the fur is cut off the skin.
- Perspiration or sweat on skin surfaces of humans or animals is also protective.
- The roasted plantain skin is mixed with palm oil and palm kernel oil to form the soap.
- The layer marked 1 is the outside, very thin skin, called the _cuticle_ or _scarf skin_.
- She's wrapped in like a plastic bag to keep her warm, and her skin is all raw and bruised-looking, and she's on a ventilator.
- Moreover, cutting off the circulation to any part of the body and leaving (hopefully) temporary indentations to the skin is another dead giveaway.
- What I think really gets under her skin is the fact that Barack Obama is wildly more popular among the people we have to share this planet with than her stuffed-sock-in-the-codpiece hero.
- Beneath the black hoods and hats, their faces were white, skin the color of alabaster and possessed of an abnormal quality, an unidentifiable property that ordinary skin -- _human skin_ -- did not have.
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- II. iii.117 (452,3) Here, lay Duncan,/His silver skin lac'd with his golden blood] Mr. Pope has endeavoured to improve one of these lines by substituting _goary blood_ for _golden blood_; but it may easily be admitted that he who could on such an occasion talk of _lacing the silyer skin_, would _lace it_ with _golden blood_.
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