skin

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Synonyms 1.2.2 Derived terms 1.2.3 See also 1.2.4 Translations 1.3 Verb 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Derived terms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Noun 3 Dutch 3.1 Noun 4 Icelandic 4.1 Noun 4.1.1 Derived terms

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /skɪn/, SAMPA: /skIn/

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  Rhymes: -ɪn

[edit] Noun

skin (countable and uncountable; plural skins)

1. (uncountable) The outer covering of living tissue over the bones, striated muscles, ligaments, and internal organs of a person.
   • He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
2. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of any plant or animal.
3. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
4. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
   • 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.
5. (countable, computing) An image used as the background of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
   • You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
6. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
   • Pass me a skin, mate.
7. (countable, slang) Short for skinhead.
8. (Australia) 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, Macquarie University, 1994, paperback ISBN 0-949757-79-9, introduction.)

[edit] Synonyms

• (outer covering of living tissue): dermis, integument, tegument
• (outer protective layer of a plant or animal): peel (of fruit or vegetable)
• (skin of an animal used by humans): hide, pelt
• (congealed layer on the surface of a liquid): film

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[edit] See also

• cutis
• dermis
• epidermis

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[edit] Verb

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

1. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
   • 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.
3. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To use a replacement image for the graphical user interface of (a computer program).
   • Can I skin the program to put the picture of my cat on it?

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• (injure the skin of): bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
• (remove the skin of): flay, fleece

[edit] Derived terms

• skinner
• skin up
• there’s more than one way to skin a cat
• thin-skinned
• tough-skinned

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[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ikns
• inks
• sink

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[edit] Noun

skin c. (uncountable, singular indefinite skin, singular definite skinnet)

1. Shine, light, glare.
2. Surface, resemblance.

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skin m. and f. (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje)

1. Skin (computing).
2. Short for skinhead.

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[edit] Icelandic

Declension of skin
	(singular)
	(indefinite)	(definite)
nominative	skin	skinið
accusative	skin	skinið
dative	skini	skininu
genitive	skins	skinsins
Other words with the same declension

[edit] Noun

skin n.

1. shine, shimmer, brightness.

[edit] Derived terms

• sólskin