Skin

Noun

 * 1)  The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
 * 2) * He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
 * 3)  The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
 * 4)  The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
 * 5)  A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
 * 6) * 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.
 * 7)  A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
 * 8) * You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
 * 9)  Rolling paper for cigarettes.
 * 10) * Pass me a skin, mate.
 * 11)  Short for skinhead.
 * 12)  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.)
 * 13)  An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.
 * 14)  nudity, particular bare breasts.
 * 15) * Let me see a bit of skin.

Synonyms

 * dermis, integument, tegument
 * peel, pericarp
 * hide, pelt
 * film

Derived terms

 * buckskin
 * by the skin of one's teeth
 * calfskin
 * cleanskin
 * comfortable in one's own skin
 * deerskin
 * doeskin
 * get under one's skin
 * give some skin to
 * goatskin
 * goose skin
 * it's no skin off my back
 * jump in one's skin
 * lambskin
 * make one's skin crawl
 * moleskin
 * no skin off my nose
 * pigskin
 * sealskin
 * second skin
 * sharkskin
 * sheepskin


 * shirts and skins
 * skin and bone, skin and bones
 * skin cancer
 * skin care, skincare
 * skin cell
 * skin cream
 * skin-deep
 * skin disease
 * skin effect
 * skin flick
 * skinflint
 * skin flute
 * skinfold
 * skinful
 * skin graft
 * skinhead
 * skinless
 * skin movie
 * skin type
 * snakeskin
 * waterskin
 * wineskin

Verb

 * 1)  To injure the skin of.
 * 2) * He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
 * 3)  To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
 * 4)  To high five.
 * 5)  To apply a skin to (a computer program).
 * 6) * Can I skin the program to put the picture of my cat on it?
 * 7)  To use tricks to go past a defender.

Synonyms

 * bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
 * flay, fleece

Derived terms

 * skinnable
 * skinner
 * skin up
 * there's more than one way to skin a cat
 * thin-skinned
 * tough-skinned

Adjectives for Skin
clear; ruddy; tanned; mortal; dainty tawny; parchment; tender; dry; scratchy shaggy; accumulated; tough; defensive roughened; ivory; olive; ardent; incarnate wrinkled; transparent; sensitive; sleekest edible; sunburned; lustrous; untanned; sallow; gay; dead; painted; scaling; waxy; bronzed; superfluous; crinkled; redundant mottled; narrow.

Verbs for Skin
affect—; aggravate—; bathe—; chafe— dust—; enervate—; expose—; harden—; in' flame—; ingrain—; injure—; irritate—; macerate—; paint—; pat—; peel—; prick —; pull off—; rejuvenate—; rinse—; rub —; ruffle—; safeguard—; save one's—; scratch—; shed—; smear—; soften—; soothe —; sponge—; ulcerate—; —adapts; — blanches; —erupts; —forms; —furrows; — glows; —jaundices; —parches; —quivers; —scars; —shrinks; —splits; —stains; — thickens ; —warts ; —wrinkles.

Thesaurus
C, C-note, G, G-note, IUD, ablate, abrade, abrase, acne, acne vulgaris, bag, bark, barrel, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat hollow, beeline, best, bill, birth control device, blame, bleed, bleed white, blemish, bloody, bone, border, bran, break, buck, bucket, bullet, burn, capsule, cartwheel, case, casing, censure, cent, century, chafe, chaff, cheapskate, cheat, check, chip, circumference, clad, claw, clip, clobber, coat, coating, collop, con man, condemn, condom, contraceptive, contraceptive foam, copper, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk, cortex, cover, covering, crack, craze, crust, cursoriness, cut, cut off, deal, decorticate, defeat, defoliate, defrauder, denounce, denude, denunciate, deplume, derma, dermamycosis, dermatitis, dermatosis, despoil, destroy, diaphragm, diddler, dime, disk, dismember, displume, divest, do in, dollar, dollar bill, double-dealer, drain, draw and quarter, drub, dry, eczema, elephantiasis, enamel, envelope, epicarp, epidermis, epithelioma, erase, erode, erysipelas, erythema, exanthem, excoriate, exhaust, exploit, exterior, exteriority, external, facade, face, facet, facing, fell, feuille, fifty cents, file, film, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, five-spot, fiver, fix, flap, flay, fleece, fleet, flimflammer, foil, fold, four bits, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, fringe, frogskin, front, fur, gall, gash, gloss, gnaw, gnaw away, gouge, grand, grate, graze, grind, gyp, half G, half a C, half dollar, half grand, haste, hasten, heat rash, herpes, herpes simplex, herpes zoster, hide, highball, hives, hold up, hors de combat, hull, hundred-dollar bill, hurt, husk, hustle, impetigo, impoverish, incise, incrustation, injure, integument, intrauterine device, iron man, itch, jacket, jungle rot, knock, lacerate, lacquer, lambaste, lamella, lamina, laminated glass, laminated wood, lap, lather, leaf, leprosy, lichen, lichen primus, lick, lineaments, lupus, lupus vulgaris, maim, make mincemeat of, mangle, maul, membrane, mere scratch, miliaria, milk, mill, mutilate, nickel, niggard, no depth, no water, oral contraceptive, outclass, outdo, outer face, outer layer, outer side, outer skin, outfight, outgeneral, outline, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, outside, overcharge, overlay, overprice, overtax, paint, palea, pane, panel, pare, patina, peel, peeling, pellicle, pelt, pemphigus, penny, periphery, pessary, phellum, pick clean, pick to pieces, pierce, pinprick, plait, plank, plate, plating, pluck, ply, plywood, pod, prickly heat, profiteer, prophylactic, pruigo, pruritus, psora, pull apart, pull off, puncture, put, quarter, rap, rasher, rasp, raze, red cent, rend, reprehend, reprobate, revetment, rind, ringworm, rip, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubber, ruin, run, rupture, safety glass, savage, sawbuck, scabies, scald, scale, scalp, scorch, scotch, scour, scrape, scratch, screw, scrooge, scrub, scuff, scum, settle, shallowness, sharper, shear, sheath, sheathing, sheet, shell, shingles, shoaliness, shred, shuck, side, siding, silver dollar, skin alive, skin cancer, skinflint, slab, slash, slat, slice, slightness, slit, slough, smacker, soak, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, sprain, stab, stick, stiff, sting, strain, strip, strip bare, suck dry, superficiality, superficies, superstratum, surcharge, surface, swindle, table, tablet, take apart, take the cake, tear, tear apart, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, ten cents, ten-spot, tenner, tetter, the pill, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, thrash, tightwad, top, traumatize, trim, triumph, triumph over, triviality, trounce, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two-dollar bill, two-spot, undo, varnish, veneer, victimize, wafer, wear, wear away, whip, win, worst, wound, wrench, yard

Etymology
From skinn:, from  skinn: 'animal hide', from  (cf. Old English scinn: 'hide', Dutch (Flemish) schinde: 'bark', German dialect Schinde: 'fruit peel'), from pre-Celtic/Germanic *skento (cf. Breton skant: 'scales', Old Irish ceinn: 'id.'), from  'to split off' (cf. Irish scainim: 'I tear, burst', Latin scindere: 'to split, divide', Sanskrit undefined: 'he splits'), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d 'to cut'. More at.

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: (jild)
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian:, piel
 * Azeri: dəri
 * Bashkir:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: скура
 * Bengali: ত্বক
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: kroc'hen
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Chuvash:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dolgan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: nahk
 * Filipino: balat
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Gagauz:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Guaraní: api
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: עור ('or)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 皮膚 (ひふ, hifu)
 * Kalmyk:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Karakalpak:
 * Kazakh: тері
 * Khakas:
 * Korean: 살갗 (salgat), 피부 (皮膚, pibu)
 * Koryak:
 * Kumyk: ,
 * Kurdish: çerm, pîst ,


 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian: кожа
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: തൊലി (tholi), ചര്‍മ്മം (charmam)
 * Manx:
 * Mongolian: арьс
 * Nogai:
 * Norwegian: hud, skinn, ham
 * Occitan:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Pangasinan:
 * Persian: (pust)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Romagnolo: pèla
 * Romani:
 * Romanian:
 * Russia Buryat:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Shor:
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak:, pokožka
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Sundanese:
 * Swahili: ngozi (nc 9/10)
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: தோல்
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: చర్మము (charmam)
 * Thai: ผิวหนัง
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: шкiра
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük: skin
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: hûd
 * Yakut:
 * Yiddish:
 * Zulu: isikhumba


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Danish: skræl, skind
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, (animal),  (fruit etc.),  (other)
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: (fruit, vegetable),  (plant),  (animal)


 * Irish:, ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Malayalam: തൊലി (tholi), ചര്‍മ്മം (charmam)
 * Persian:
 * Russian:, , of plants
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: పట్ట


 * Armenian: կաշի (kaši),
 * Bosnian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: skind
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 革 (かわ, kawa), 皮革 (ひかく, hikaku)
 * Korean: 가죽 (gajuk)
 * Korean: 가죽 (gajuk)


 * Kurdish: kevl, pîst ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Malayalam: തോല് (thol)
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: piele
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తోలు


 * Danish: skind
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Japanese: (まく, maku)
 * Korean: 막 (, mak), 피막 (皮膜, pimak)


 * Kurdish: tûk
 * Malayalam: പാട (paata)
 * Persian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: pokožka
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: పొర


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 面板
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: скин
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: తొడుగు (toDugu)
 * Turkish:


 * Dutch:, vloeitje
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: τσιγαρόχαρτο


 * Hungarian: cigarettapapír, cigipapír
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:, szkinhed


 * Polish:
 * Russian: скин
 * Swedish: skinnskalle,


 * : guidi, guidi ladi


 * : uka

Verb

 * Danish: skrabe
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian: lehorzsol
 * Persian: خراشیدن
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: обдирать, ободрать


 * Danish: flå
 * Dutch:, onthuiden, (de huid) afstropen
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: nyúz, lenyúz,


 * Latin: excorticare
 * Persian: پوست کندن
 * Russian: обдирать, ободрать
 * Slovene: odreti, dati iz kože
 * Turkish:, derisini yüzmek
 * Welsh: croeni


 * Dutch: een skin


 * Finnish:

Anagrams

 * inks
 * sink

Noun

 * 1) light, glare
 * 2) semblance

Noun

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

Anagrams

 * niks, snik

Noun

 * 1) shine, shimmer, brightness

Etymology
From skína:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones:
 * Homophones:
 * Homophones:

Noun

 * 1)  skin

Noun

 * 1) skin

Derived terms

 * beraskin
 * beraskinik
 * beraskinaluhät
 * blägaskin
 * blägaskinan
 * blägaskinik
 * blövaskin
 * blövaskinan
 * blövaskinik
 * braunaskin
 * braunaskinan
 * braunaskinik
 * bubülaskin
 * fitaskin
 * flitaskinäd
 * fukaskin
 * fukaskinik
 * ganaskin
 * gedaskin
 * gedaskinan
 * gedaskinik
 * largentaskin
 * largentaskinan
 * largentaskinik
 * goldaskin
 * goldaskinan
 * goldaskinik
 * goldinalainaskin
 * grünaskin
 * grünaskinan


 * grünaskinik
 * härminaskin
 * härminaskinamäned
 * härminaskinik
 * hiskinan
 * jipaskin
 * jipaskinik
 * jipülaskin
 * jipülaskinik
 * jiskinan
 * kapaskin
 * kranaskin
 * lainaskin
 * largentaskin
 * largentaskinan
 * largentaskinik
 * leskin
 * leskinik
 * lievaskin
 * mäned härminaskinik
 * räkunaskin
 * redaskin
 * redaskinan
 * redaskinik
 * säskinam
 * säskinamaneif
 * säskinamasep
 * säskinamasep


 * säskinamöp
 * säskinanadünan
 * säskinanaluvab
 * säskinön
 * skinadefälot
 * skinafron
 * skinahogül
 * skinajüd
 * skinam
 * skinamaläd
 * skinan
 * skinaplastüd
 * skinaplif
 * skinaskret
 * skinamaläd
 * skinasümik
 * skinik
 * skinikäled
 * skiniklinükam
 * skiniklinüköl
 * skinil
 * skinön
 * svimaskinäd
 * vietaskin
 * vietaskinan
 * vietaskinik
 * yelovaskin
 * yelovaskinan
 * yelovaskinik