skin
Pronunciation: /skɪn/
The English word “skin” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
- Rolling paper for cigarettes.
- A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.
- Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
- That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- 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.
- The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- A person; chap.
- A purse.
- A member of the team not wearing shirts, in a shirts and skins game.
verb
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…
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