skin

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English

Alternative forms

• skinne (obsolete)

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”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: skĭn, IPA^(key): /skɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

2. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

   Hyponyms: epidermis, dermis, hypodermis; integument, tegument
3. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.

   Synonyms: peel, pericarp

4. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.

   Synonyms: hide, pelt

5. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.

   Synonym: film

7. (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.

8. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
9. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.

10. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
11. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.

    Synonym: moiety
12. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.

13. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
14. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
15. (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.
16. (aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
17. A drink of whisky served hot.
18. (slang, Ireland, British) A person; chap.
19. (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A purse.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cutaneous
• cutis
• dermis
• epidermis

Verb

skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

1. (transitive) To injure the skin of.

   Synonyms: bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape

2. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.

   Synonyms: flay, fleece, flense, scalp

   Coordinate terms: bone, gut, pluck, shear

3. (colloquial) To high five.
4. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).

5. (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
6. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.

7. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
8. (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.
9. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
10. (intransitive, obsolete, slang) To sneak off.
11. Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”).

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• skin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -kins, Sink, inks, k'ins, kins, sink

Abinomn

Noun

skin

1. star

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Norwegian Bokmål ski +‎ -an (infinitive suffix).

Verb

skin

1. (Luserna) to ski

Noun

skin n

1. (Luserna) skiing

References

• “skin” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Danish

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

skin n (singular definite skinnet, not used in plural form)

1. light, glare

   Synonym: skær

   1. (figurative) semblance

      Coordinate terms: illusion, blændværk

Verb

skin

1. imperative of skinne

Dutch

Etymology

Boroowed from English skin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skɪn/
• Hyphenation: skin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

skin m or f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)

1. (computing) skin
2. clipping of skinhead

Anagrams

• niks, snik

Icelandic

Etymology

Deverbal from skína (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /scɪːn/
• Rhymes: -ɪːn
• Homophone: skyn

Noun

skin n (genitive singular skins, nominative plural skin)

1. shine, shimmer, brightness

Declension

Derived terms

• sólskin

Anagrams

• sink

Middle English

Noun

skin

1. Alternative form of skyn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

skin

1. inflection of skina:
   1. present
   2. imperative

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• scīn

Etymology

From skīnan.

Noun

skīn n

1. shine

References

Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English skin.

Pronunciation

Noun

skin f (plural skins)

1. (computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)
2. (countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)

Swedish

Verb

skin

1. imperative of skina

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English skin.

Noun

skin

1. skin

Derived terms

• skin pas (“envelope”)

Volapük

Noun

skin (nominative plural skins)

1. skin

Declension

Derived terms