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skin

See also: skiń

English

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Anatomy of the human skin
 
Moulted cicada skins

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    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. Unrelated to shin.

    Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “he splits”).

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    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
      He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
      • 2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184:
        Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers.
    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
      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.
      Do you eat the skin on custard?
    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.
      You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
    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.
      Pass me a skin, mate.
    10. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
      • 2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth:
        By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.
    11. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.[1]
      Synonym: moiety
      • 1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology, page 361:
        The younger brother questions the correctness of the pursuit of the girls. "They may be of the wrong subsection," he suggests. "We can take wrong skins," says the older brother, but the younger still holds back.
    12. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
      Let me see a bit of skin.
    13. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
      • 1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion:
        the Bacchic train,
        Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles
        That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes
    14. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
      • (Can we date this quote?), “Textile Technology Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
        The skin of the sail is made of stretch-resistant Mylar
    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.
      He was a decent old skin.
      • 2019, Joe Murragh, Colin Barrett, 54:50 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Paudi (Ned Dennehy):
        PAUDI:”I fucking love the pair of ye! You’re good lads. You’re loyal skins”
    19. (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A purse.
      • 1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86:
        […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.

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    outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal
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    Verb

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    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
      He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
    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).
      Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
    5. (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
      • 2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC‎[1]:
        The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.
    6. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
      A wound eventually skins over.
    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.

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    1. ^ 1994, Macquarie Aboriginal Words, Macquarie University, paperback →ISBN, Introduction.

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    Abinomn

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    skin

    1. star

    Cimbrian

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    Etymology

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

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    skin

    1. (Luserna) to ski

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    skin n

    1. (Luserna) skiing

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    Danish

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    Etymology

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

    1. light, glare
    2. semblance

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    skin

    1. imperative of skinne

    Dutch

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    Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia nl

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

    1. (computing) skin
    2. Clipping of skinhead.

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    Icelandic

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    Etymology

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    Deverbal from skína (“to shine”).

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    skin n (genitive singular skins, nominative plural skin)

    1. shine, shimmer, brightness

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    Declension of skin (neuter)
    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative skin skinið skin skinin
    accusative skin skinið skin skinin
    dative skini skininu skinum skinunum
    genitive skins skinsins skina skinanna

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    Middle English

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    skin

    1. Alternative form of skyn

    Norwegian Nynorsk

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    skin

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

    Old Saxon

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    From skīnan.

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    skīn n

    1. shine

    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from English skin.

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    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

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    skin

    1. imperative of skina

    Tok Pisin

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    Etymology

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      From English skin.

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      skin

      1. skin
        • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:
          Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.
          →New International Version translation

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      Volapük

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      skin (nominative plural skins)

      1. skin

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      declension of skin
      singular plural
      nominative skin skins
      genitive skina skinas
      dative skine skines
      accusative skini skinis
      vocative 1 o skin! o skins!
      predicative 2 skinu skinus
      • 1 status as a case is disputed
      • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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