skin

Meanings

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.
• Short form of skinhead
• A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
• 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.

Verb

• To injure the skin of.
• To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
• To high five.
• To apply a skin to (a computer program).
• To use tricks to go past a defender.
• To become covered with skin.
• To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
• To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
• To strip of money or property; to cheat.

Related

Similar words

• dermis, integument, tegument
• peel , pericarp
• hide, pelt
• film
• moiety, section, subsection
• bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
• flay, fleece, flense, scalp

Narrower meaning words

• banana skin
• buckskin
• calfskin
• cumskin
• deerskin
• doeskin
• goatskin
• goose skin
• lambskin
• loinskin
• moleskin
• pigskin
• sealskin
• second skin
• sharkskin
• sheepskin
• snakeskin
• waterskin
• wineskin
• yakskin

Origin

• From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn, from Proto-Germanic *skinþą (compare Dutch schinde ("bark"), dialectal German Schinde), from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (compare Breton skant ("scales"), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim ("I tear, burst"), Latin scindo ("to split, divide"), Sanskrit छिनत्ति ("he splits")), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d-. Partially displaced native Old English hȳd, see hide. More at shed.