Skin - English meaning

Skin – definitions in English dictionary

noun
The thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal.
Usage examples:
I use body lotion to keep my skin supple
Synonims:
Epidermis Dermis Cuticle Cutis Corium Derma Derm Integument Tegument Complexion Colouring Skin colour Skin tone Pigmentation
noun
The peel or outer layer of certain fruits or vegetables.
Usage examples:
Potatoes roasted in their skins
Synonims:
Peel Rind Outside Integument
noun
A customized graphic user interface for an application or operating system.
Usage examples:
They swapped modding techniques and hundreds of custom skins over the website message board.
noun
A skinhead.
Usage examples:
We were surrounded by skins with tattoos and braces
noun
(especially in jazz) a drum or drum head.
Usage examples:
Drummer ste barrow is frantically searching for a replacement having just split the skin on his bas…
noun
Relating to or denoting pornographic literature or films.
Usage examples:
The skin trade
noun
A card game in which each player has one card which they bet will not be the first to be matched by a card dealt from the pack.
noun
A unit into which an aboriginal people is divided, typically on the basis of descent, each skin being associated with a totemic bird, animal, or insect.
Usage examples:
Marriage or sexual relationships with any member of the other seven 'skins' are regarded as improper.

verb
Remove the skin from (an animal or a fruit or vegetable).
Usage examples:
Scald and skin the tomatoes
Synonims:
Peel Pare Hull Decorticate
verb
Take money from or swindle (someone).
Usage examples:
I ain't no dummy, and i know when i'm being skinned
verb
(of a wound) form new skin.
Usage examples:
The hole in his skull skinned over
verb
(of a player) take the ball past (a defender) with ease.
Usage examples:
Kanchelskis would have skinned him
verb
Make a cannabis cigarette.
Usage examples:
We had a few beers and then we skinned up

noun
The natural outer layer that covers a person or animal
Usage examples:
[ c ] leopard skins, [ u ] he had dark, leathery skin., potato skins, [ c ] those airplanes have ti…

Skin translation into English

Skin: translate from English into Chinese

皮肤, 肌肤, 皮, 剥, 肤, 胪, 长皮

Skin: translate from English into Dutch

Huid, Villen, Vel, Schil, Vacht, Pels, Vliesje, Schaal, Pellen, Stropen, Afzetten, Dierevel, Lerenwijnzak, Met vel bedekken, Met een vlies bedekken

Skin: translate from English into French

Peau, Plumer, Écorcher, Dépouiller, Revêtement, Pelure, Outre, Éplucher, Peluche, Estamper

Skin: translate from English into German

Haut, Skin, Häuten, Pelz, Enthäuten, Schale, Fell, Hülle, Darm, Schlauch, Pelle, Häutchen, Balg, Schälen, Skinhead, Abziehen, Pellen, Ölzeug, Ölhaut, Matrize

Skin: translate from English into Hindi

त्वचा, खाल, चर्म, चमड़ा, कंजूसी, जिल्द, त्वक, छाला, मलाई, रोम सहित खाल, रोम सहित चमड़ा, पपड़ी, पोस्तीन, जिल्द का, चमड़ा मढ़ना, खाल खींचना, छीलना, छाल उतारकर साफ़ करना, रगड़ डालना, चोराना, लूटना, चढ़ना, तबाह करना, पराजित करना, शिकस्त देना, दंड करना, चमड़ा-संबंधी, छाल, छिलका, झिल्ली

Skin: translate from English into Italian

Pelle, Pelare, Cute, Spellare, Buccia, Rivestimento, Pellicola, Scorza, Sbucciare, Scorticare, Skinhead, Matrice per duplicatori

Skin: translate from English into Korean

피부, 가죽, 껍질, 허물, 외판, 목숨, 구두쇠, 말, 엷은 막, 한 달러 지폐, 품다, 껍질을 벗기다, 생채기내다, ...에서 강탈하다, 몹시 비난하다, 가죽으로 덮이다, 껍질로 덮이다, 좁은 곳을 겨우 빠져 나가다, 피부의, 피부에 관한, 누드 전문의

Skin: translate from English into Russian

Кожа, Шкура, Оболочка, Кожица, Обшивка, Кожура, Пленка, Пенка, Мех, Наружный слой, Накожный, Ободрать, Выделанная шкура, Сдирать кожу или шкуру, Снимать кожуру, Ссадить кожу, Содрать кожу, Покрывать кожей, Покрываться кожей, Зарубцеваться, Обирать дочиста

Skin: translate from English into Spanish

Piel, Pelar, Desollar, Cutis, Cáscara, Pellejo, Cuero, Tez, Forro, Hollejo, Nata, Despellejarse, Despojar, Quitarse, Proveer de forro, Cubrirse de nata

Word origin

late Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn ; related to Dutch schinden ‘flay, peel’ and German schinden .

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Skin synonims

colouring

noun
The process of changing the colour of something by painting, dyeing, or shading it.
Usage examples:
The salon concentrates purely on colouring

verb
Change the colour of (something) by painting, dyeing, or shading it.
Usage examples:
He coloured her hair with a selection of blonde and brown shades

noun
The combined effect of a person's hair, skin, and eye colour
Usage examples:
Their colouring is so totally different that you would never think they were sisters., it says on t…

Colouring - all meanings in English

complexion

noun
The natural colour, texture, and appearance of a person's skin, especially of the face.
Usage examples:
A smooth, pale complexion

noun
The color or appearance of the skin of a person’s face
Usage examples:
A dark/light/smooth complexion

Complexion - all meanings in English

corium

noun
Another term for dermis.

Corium - all meanings in English

cuticle

noun
The dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail.
Usage examples:
You've been gnawing at your cuticles

noun
The thin skin at the base of the nails on the fingers and toes

Cuticle - all meanings in English

cutis

noun
The true skin or dermis.
Usage examples:
Scleredema is a rare skin disease, characterized by progressive induration of cutis and subcutaneou…

noun
The layer of skin under the epidermis (= the thin outer layer of skin), used in the names of some medical conditions
Usage examples:
The ancient anatomists divided the skin into two parts or layers, the inner being called the cutis …

Cutis - all meanings in English

decorticate

verb
Remove the bark, rind, or husk from.
Usage examples:
Tamarind seeds were cleaned, roasted, decorticated, and pulverized

adjective
Having had the cortex of the brain removed or separated.
Usage examples:
The terminal illness is characterised by deep coma and decerebrate or decorticate posturing.

Decorticate - all meanings in English

derm

noun
Another term for dermis.

Derm - all meanings in English

derma

noun
Another term for dermis.

noun
Beef or chicken intestine, stuffed and cooked in dishes such as kishke.
Usage examples:
They'd serve you exotic treats like stuffed derma or chopped liver with sliced egg and there would …

prefix
Relating to the skin; used to form nouns and adjectives
Usage examples:
He is a los angeles dermasurgeon., a dermatophyte fungus (= one that grows on skin)

Derma - all meanings in English

dermis

noun
The skin.
Usage examples:
The dermal-epidermal junction, papillary dermis, and reticular dermis were assessed separately.

noun
The thick layer of skin under the epidermis (= thin outer layer) that contains blood vessels, sweat glands and nerve endings

Dermis - all meanings in English

epidermis

noun
The surface epithelium of the skin, overlying the dermis.
Usage examples:
The skin consists of an epidermis, dermis, adipose tissue layer and subcutaneous connective tissue.

Epidermis - all meanings in English

hull

noun
The main body of a ship or other vessel, including the bottom, sides, and deck but not the masts, superstructure, rigging, engines, and other fittings.
Usage examples:
The main structural bulkhead supports the hull sides at the chain plates and the cabin top at the m…

verb
Hit and pierce the hull of (a ship) with a missile.
Usage examples:
The ship was being hulled and all would die

verb
Remove the hulls from (fruit, seeds, or grain).
Usage examples:
First, rinse and hull the berries

Hull - all meanings in English

integument

noun
A tough outer protective layer, especially that of an animal or plant.
Usage examples:
This chemical compound is found in the integument of the seed

noun
An outer covering, for example a skin or shell

Integument - all meanings in English

outside

noun
The external side or surface of something.
Usage examples:
Record the date on the outside of the file

adjective
Situated on or near the exterior or external surface of something.
Usage examples:
Anne put the outside lights on

preposition
Situated or moving beyond the boundaries or confines of.
Usage examples:
There was a boy outside the door

Outside - all meanings in English

pare

verb
Trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges.
Usage examples:
Carlo pared his thumbnails with his knife

Pare - all meanings in English

peel

verb
Remove the outer covering or skin from (a fruit or vegetable).
Usage examples:
She watched him peel an apple with deliberate care

noun
The outer covering or rind of a fruit or vegetable.
Usage examples:
Pieces of potato peel

noun
A flat implement like a shovel, especially one used by a baker for carrying loaves or similar items of food into or out of an oven.
Usage examples:
A wooden pizza peel

Peel - all meanings in English

pigmentation

noun
The natural colouring of animal or plant tissue.
Usage examples:
Progeny plants were scored for pigmentation phenotype and analyzed for genotype using ssr markers.

noun
The natural colour of something, usually a living thing

Pigmentation - all meanings in English

rind

noun
The tough outer skin of certain fruit, especially citrus fruit.
Usage examples:
Decorate with fine shreds of orange rind

verb
Strip the bark from (a tree).
Usage examples:
When the meat ran out they had to rind trees and chew the inner bark for nourishment

Rind - all meanings in English

tegument

noun
The integument of an organism, especially a parasitic flatworm.
Usage examples:
The labellum indument resembles, although superficially, that of the hairy areas of an insect tegum…

Tegument - all meanings in English

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