Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word skin. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in skin.
Definitions and meaning of skin
skin
Etymology
From Middle Englishskyn, skinn, from Old Englishscinn, from Old Norseskinn(“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic*skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European*sken-(“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d-(“to cut”).
See also Dutchschinde(“bark”), dialectal German Schinde(“fruit peel”); also Bretonskant(“scales”), Old Irishceinn, Irishscainim(“I tear, burst”), Latinscindere(“to split, divide”), Sanskritछिनत्ति(chinátti, “he splits”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd(“skin, hide”), see hide. More at shed. Not related to shin.
Pronunciation
enPR: skĭn, IPA(key): /skɪn/
Rhymes: -ɪn
Noun
skin (countable and uncountable, pluralskins)
(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
(countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
(countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
(countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
(countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
(countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
(countable, slang)Clipping of skinhead.
(Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
(slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
(nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
(nautical) 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.
(aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
A drink of whisky served hot.
(slang, Ireland, British) person, chap
He was a decent old skin.
(UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A purse.
Synonyms
(outer covering of living tissue):dermis, integument, tegument
(outer protective layer of a plant or animal):peel(of fruit or vegetable), pericarp
(skin of an animal used by humans):hide, pelt
(congealed layer on the surface of a liquid):film
(subgroup of Australian Aboriginals):moiety, section, subsection
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
cutaneous
cutis
dermis
epidermis
References
skin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
skin (third-person singular simple presentskins, present participleskinning, simple past and past participleskinned)
(transitive) To injure the skin of.
He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
(transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
(colloquial) To high five.
(transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
(UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
(intransitive) To become covered with skin.
A wound eventually skins over.
(transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
(US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
(slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
(intransitive, obsolete, slang) To sneak off.
Synonyms
(injure the skin of):bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
(remove the skin of):flay, fleece, flense, scalp
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
-kins, Sink, inks, k'ins, kins, sink
Abinomn
Noun
skin
star
Cimbrian
Etymology
From Norwegianski + -an(infinitive suffix).
Verb
skin
(Luserna) to ski
Noun
skinn
(Luserna) skiing
References
“skin” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Danish
Etymology
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
skinn (singular definiteskinnet, not used in plural form)