Definition of SKIN

skin

Plural: skins

Noun

  • a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
    • "your skin is the largest organ of your body"
  • an outer surface (usually thin)
    • "the skin of an airplane"
  • body covering of a living animal
  • a person's skin regarded as their life
    • "he tried to save his skin"
  • the rind of a fruit or vegetable
  • a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
  • 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.
  • Clipping of skinhead.
  • 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: skinned, skinning, skins

  • To strip the skin from an animal; to abrade.
  • climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
  • bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
    • "The boy skinned his knee when he fell"
  • remove the bark of a tree
  • strip the skin off
  • 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.
  • To sneak off.
  • Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”)

Examples

  • A wound eventually skins over.
  • Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
  • Do you eat the skin on custard?
  • He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
  • He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
  • He was a decent old skin.
  • 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.
  • Let me see a bit of skin.
  • My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite.
  • Pass me a skin, mate.
  • Sometimes you have to skin a word for its prefixes and suffixes to find the best play.
  • You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.

Origin / 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 (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).

Scrabble Score: 8

skin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
skin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
skin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

skin: valid Words With Friends Word