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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /skɪn/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-skin.ogg


Noun

  1. The outer covering of living tissue over the bones, striated muscles, ligaments, and internal organs of a person.
  2. * He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
  3. The outer protective layer of any plant or animal.
  4. The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
  5. A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
  6. * 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.
  7. In the Context of An image used as the background of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
  8. * You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
  9. In the Context of Rolling paper for cigarettes.
  10. * Pass me a skin, mate.
  11. In the Context of Short for skinhead.
  12. A subgroup within an Australian aboriginal people, also called a section, subsection, or moiety. These divisions are cultural, not related to a person’s physical skin. (Reference: Macquarie Aboriginal Words, w:Macquarie University|Macquarie University, 1994, paperback ISBN 0-949757-79-9, introduction.)


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Translations

  • Albanian: lëkurë
  • Arabic:
  • Armenian: {{t-|hy|մաշկ|tr=mašk|sc=Hayeren|xs=Armenian}}
  • Asturian: {{t+|ast|pelleyu|m|xs=Asturian}}
  • Basque: {{t+|eu|azal|xs=Basque}}
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|koža|f}}
  • Catalan: pell
  • Chinese: 皮膚, 皮肤 (pífū)
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|koža|f}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|kůže|f}}
  • Danish: {{t-|da|hud|c}}
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|huid|f}}, {{t+|nl|vel|n}}
  • Esperanto: haŭto
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|peau|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Haut|f}}
  • Greek: {{t+|el|δέρμα|n|tr=dérma|sc=Grek}}
  • Guaraní: api
  • Hebrew: עור (‘or)
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|húð|f}}, {{t+|is|skinn|n}}, {{t+|is|hörund|n}}
  • Italian: {{t+|it|pelle|f}}
  • Japanese: 皮膚 (ひふ, hifu)
  • Korean: 살갗 (salgat), 피부 (皮膚, pibu)
  • Kurdish: çerm , pîst ,
  • Latvian: āda
  • Lithuanian: {{t+|lt|oda|f|xs=Lithuanian}}
  • Macedonian: кожа
  • Malayalam: തൊലി (tholi), ചര്‍മ്മം (charmam)
  • Persian: (pust)
  • Polish: {{t+|pl|skóra|f}}
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pele|f}}
  • Romanian: {{t-|ro|piele|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|кожа|f|sc=Cyrl}} (kóža)
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: {{t-|sr|кожа|f|sc=Cyrl}}
  • : Roman: {{t-|sr|koža|f}}
  • Slovak: {{t-|sk|koža|f}}, {{t|sk|pokožka|f}}
  • Slovene: {{t+|sl|koža|f}}
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|piel|f}}
  • Swahili: ngozi (nc 9/10)
  • Swedish: {{t+|sv|hud|c}}
  • Telugu: చర్మము
  • Danish: skræl , skind
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|huid|f}}, {{t+|nl|vel|n}}
  • French: {{t+|fr|peau|f}}
  • Kurdish: {{t-|ku|چه‌رم|sc=KUchar}}
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|koža|f}}
  • Danish: skind
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|huid|f}}, {{t-|nl|bont|n}}, {{t+|nl|pels|f}}
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|peau|f}}
  • Hungarian: állatbőr, bunda
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|skinn|n}}
  • Japanese: 革 (かわ, kawa), 皮革 (ひかく, hikaku)
  • Korean: 가죽 (gajuk)
  • Kurdish: kevl , pîst ,
  • Latvian: āda
  • Malayalam: തോല് (thol)
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pele|f}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|шкура|f|tr=škúra|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|кожа|f|sc=Cyrl}} (kóža)
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: {{t-|sr|кожа|f|sc=Cyrl}}
  • : Roman: {{t-|sr|koža|f}}
  • Slovak: {{t-|sk|koža|f}}
  • Telugu: తోలు
  • Danish: skind
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|vel|n}}
  • Finnish:
  • French:
  • Japanese: {{t+|ja|膜|sc=Jpan}} (まく, maku)
  • Korean: 막 ({{t-|ko|膜|sc=Hani}}, mak), 피막 (皮膜, pimak)
  • Dutch: {{t+|nl|skin|f}}
  • Russian: скин (skin)
  • Dutch: , {{t+|nl|skin|m}}

Verb

{{en-verb|skin|n|ing}}

  1. To injure the skin of.
  2. * He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
  3. To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
  4. {{context|transitive|computing|colloquial}} To use a replacement image for the graphical user interface of (a computer program).
  5. * Can I skin the program to put the picture of my cat on it?


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Translations

  • Danish: skrabe
  • Dutch:
  • Finnish:
  • Dutch: een skin

Anagrams


Category:1000 English basic words

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Danish

Noun

skin

  1. shine|Shine, light, glare.
  2. surface|Surface, resemblance.


Category:Danish nouns

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Dutch

Noun

{{nl-noun|g1=m|g2=f|skins|skinnetje}}

  1. #English|Skin (computing).
  2. Short for skinhead.


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Icelandic

Noun

skin

  1. shine, shimmer, brightness.


Derived terms


Category:Icelandic nouns

ang:skin ar:skin ast:skin zh-min-nan:skin de:skin et:skin el:skin es:skin fa:skin fr:skin hy:skin io:skin id:skin is:skin it:skin kk:skin ku:skin li:skin hu:skin nl:skin ja:skin oc:skin pl:skin pt:skin ru:skin simple:skin sr:skin fi:skin sv:skin ta:skin te:skin vi:skin tr:skin uk:skin vo:skin zh:skin

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Skin \Skin\, n. [Icel. skinn; akin to Sw. skinn, Dan. skind, AS.
scinn, G. schined to skin.]
1. (Anat.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
[1913 Webster]

Note: In man, and the vertebrates generally, the skin consist
of two layers, an outer nonsensitive and nonvascular
epidermis, cuticle, or skarfskin, composed of cells
which are constantly growing and multiplying in the
deeper, and being thrown off in the superficial,
layers; and an inner sensitive, and vascular dermis,
cutis, corium, or true skin, composed mostly of
connective tissue.
[1913 Webster]

2. The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether
green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal,
as a calf, sheep, or goat.
[1913 Webster]

3. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See
Bottle, 1. "Skins of wine." --Tennyson.
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4. The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of
fruits and plants.
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5. (Naut.)
(a) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the
outside and covers the whole. --Totten.
(b) 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.
[1913 Webster]

Skin friction, Skin resistance (Naut.), the friction, or
resistance, caused by the tendency of water to adhere to
the immersed surface (skin) of a vessel.

Skin graft (Surg.), a small portion of skin used in the
process of grafting. See Graft, v. t., 2.

Skin moth (Zool.), any insect which destroys the prepared
skins of animals, especially the larva of Dermestes and
Anthrenus.

Skin of the teeth, nothing, or next to nothing; the least
possible hold or advantage. --Job xix. 20.

Skin wool, wool taken from dead sheep.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Skin \Skin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Skinned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Skinning.]
1. To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to
skin an animal.
[1913 Webster]

2. To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover
superficially.
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It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
--Shak.
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3. To strip of money or property; to cheat. [Slang]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Skin \Skin\, v. i.
1. To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
[1913 Webster]

2. To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of
another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs,
memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited. [College Cant,
U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet skin
n 1: a natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense
of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body"
[syn: tegument, cutis]
2: the tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)
[syn: rind, peel]
3: an outer surface (usually thin); "the skin of an airplane"
4: body covering of a living animal [syn: hide, pelt]
5: a person's skin regarded as their life; "he tried to save
his skin"
6: the rind of a fruit or vegetable [syn: peel]
7: a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from
the skin of an animal
v 1: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling [syn: clamber, scramble,
shin, shinny, struggle, sputter]
2: bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy
skinned his knee when he fell" [syn: scrape]
3: remove the bark of a tree [syn: bark]
4: strip the skin off; "pare apples" [syn: peel, pare]
5: strike against an object; "She stubbed her one's toe in the
dark and now it's broken" [syn: stub, scrape, abrade]
[also: skinning, skinned]
Moby Dictionary
C , C-note , G , G-note , IUD , ablate , abrade , abrase , acne ,
acne vulgaris , bag , bark , barrel , bear the palm , beat ,
beat all hollow , beat hollow , beeline , best , bill ,
birth control device , blame , bleed , bleed white , blemish , bloody ,
bone , border , bran , break , buck , bucket , bullet , burn , capsule ,
cartwheel , case , casing , censure , cent , century , chafe , chaff ,
cheapskate , cheat , check , chip , circumference , clad , claw , clip ,
clobber , coat , coating , collop , con man , condemn , condom ,
contraceptive , contraceptive foam , copper , cork , corn shuck ,
cornhusk , cortex , cover , covering , crack , craze , crust ,
cursoriness , cut , cut off , deal , decorticate , defeat , defoliate ,
defrauder , denounce , denude , denunciate , deplume , derma ,
dermamycosis , dermatitis , dermatosis , despoil , destroy , diaphragm ,
diddler , dime , disk , dismember , displume , divest , do in , dollar ,
dollar bill , double-dealer , drain , draw and quarter , drub , dry ,
eczema , elephantiasis , enamel , envelope , epicarp , epidermis ,
epithelioma , erase , erode , erysipelas , erythema , exanthem ,
excoriate , exhaust , exploit , exterior , exteriority , external ,
facade , face , facet , facing , fell , feuille , fifty cents , file ,
film , fin , fish , five cents , five hundred dollars ,
five-dollar bill , five-hundred-dollar bill , five-spot , fiver , fix ,
flap , flay , fleece , fleet , flimflammer , foil , fold , four bits ,
fracture , fray , frazzle , fret , fringe , frogskin , front , fur , gall ,
gash , gloss , gnaw , gnaw away , gouge , grand , grate , graze , grind ,
gyp , half G , half a C , half dollar , half grand , haste , hasten ,
heat rash , herpes , herpes simplex , herpes zoster , hide , highball ,
hives , hold up , hors de combat , hull , hundred-dollar bill , hurt ,
husk , hustle , impetigo , impoverish , incise , incrustation , injure ,
integument , intrauterine device , iron man , itch , jacket ,
jungle rot , knock , lacerate , lacquer , lambaste , lamella , lamina ,
laminated glass , laminated wood , lap , lather , leaf , leprosy ,
lichen , lichen primus , lick , lineaments , lupus , lupus vulgaris ,
maim , make mincemeat of , mangle , maul , membrane , mere scratch ,
miliaria , milk , mill , mutilate , nickel , niggard , no depth ,
no water , oral contraceptive , outclass , outdo , outer face ,
outer layer , outer side , outer skin , outfight , outgeneral , outline ,
outmaneuver , outpoint , outrun , outsail , outshine , outside ,
overcharge , overlay , overprice , overtax , paint , palea , pane , panel ,
pare , patina , peel , peeling , pellicle , pelt , pemphigus , penny ,
periphery , pessary , phellum , pick clean , pick to pieces , pierce ,
pinprick , plait , plank , plate , plating , pluck , ply , plywood , pod ,
prickly heat , profiteer , prophylactic , pruigo , pruritus , psora ,
pull apart , pull off , puncture , put , quarter , rap , rasher , rasp ,
raze , red cent , rend , reprehend , reprobate , revetment , rind ,
ringworm , rip , rub away , rub off , rub out , rubber , ruin , run ,
rupture , safety glass , savage , sawbuck , scabies , scald , scale ,
scalp , scorch , scotch , scour , scrape , scratch , screw , scrooge ,
scrub , scuff , scum , settle , shallowness , sharper , shear , sheath ,
sheathing , sheet , shell , shingles , shoaliness , shred , shuck , side ,
siding , silver dollar , skin alive , skin cancer , skinflint , slab ,
slash , slat , slice , slightness , slit , slough , smacker , soak ,
spermicidal jelly , spermicide , sprain , stab , stick , stiff , sting ,
strain , strip , strip bare , suck dry , superficiality , superficies ,
superstratum , surcharge , surface , swindle , table , tablet ,
take apart , take the cake , tear , tear apart , tear to pieces ,
tear to tatters , ten cents , ten-spot , tenner , tetter , the pill ,
thousand dollars , thousand-dollar bill , thrash , tightwad , top ,
traumatize , trim , triumph , triumph over , triviality , trounce ,
twenty-dollar bill , twenty-five cents , two bits , two-dollar bill ,
two-spot , undo , varnish , veneer , victimize , wafer , wear , wear away ,
whip , win , worst , wound , wrench , yard


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