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

  • 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.
  • The most advanced anti-aging skin care system for normal-to-dry skin A. Time DefiA.ce® Skin care System for normal-to-dry skin Give normal-to-dry skin the extra hydration it needs with this superb anti-aging skin care system that gives you 41% younger-looking skin* while instantly increasing skin hydration by 181%.
  • 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_.
  • Better just let Burt Katz do his thing Story: In Chicago's 'Clybourne Park,' everything and nothing seem to change Story: At Victory Gardens, the pleasures and perils of electrified desire Berkshire Hathaway - relax, you're reading the theater column, not the business pages - for popularizing, if not coining, the phrase "skin in the game."

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