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Definition: Skin |
SkinNoun1. A natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body". 2. The tissue forming the hard outer layer of e.g. a fruit. 3. An outer surface (usually thin); "the skin of an airplane". 4. Body covering of a living animal. 5. A person's skin regarded as their life; "he tried to save his skin". 6. A bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the skin of an animal. Verb1. Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling. 2. Bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell". 3. Remove the bark of a tree. 4. Strip the skin off ("pare apples"). 5. Strike against an object, as of one's toe or foot. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "skin" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Industry | In a strict sense, the skin of a fur-bearing animal, dressed and finished with the fur on. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Hide is a)the outer covering of a mature or fully-grown animal of the larger kind; b)leather made from a); skin is the general term for the outer covering of an animal, in a more stric t sense, the outer covering of an animal of the smaller kind, or of the immature animals of the larger species. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Aerospace | The covering of a body, of whatever material, such as the covering of a fuselage, of a wing, of a hull, of an entire aircraft, etc.; a body shell, as of a rocket; the surface of a body. (references) |
Engineering & Technology | The relatively dense material that may form the surface of a cellular plastic. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | That part of a ship's hull which forms the continuous watertight outer boundary surface of the hull. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A building component mainly extending in two dimensions. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Skin To sell the skin before you have caught the bear. To count of your chickens before they are hatched. In the South Sea mania (1720), dealing in bear-skins was a great stock-jobbing item, and thousands of skins were sold as mere time bargains. Shakespeare alludes to a similar practice:- "The man that once did sell the lion's skin While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him." Henry V., iv. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Military & Defense | Sheet covering a framework of stiffeners or forming the outer members of a sandwich. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang | Noun. Source: Skin-head. Definition: One with a shaven head.There is also an assosiated mentality.(see connotations and sociological implications.). Context: May be used whenever punks interact. Social Source: Punk. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | SKIN. In a bad skin; out of temper, in an ill humour. Thin-skinned: touchy, peevish. SKIN. A purse. Frisk the skin of the stephen; empty the money out of the purse. Queer skin; an empty purse. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Transportation | The stressed-skin wings may have shear webs but no true spars. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
simple:SkinSkin is a resilient protective layer of cellss protecting the muscles and organss of animals. Skin is formed in several layers. Living skin is a material of exceptional quality, with good temperature tolerance and insulating ability. As well as these functions, skin has roles of vitamin D production, sensation and excretion (through sweat).
Skin on creatures regularly subjected to sunlight have pigmentation which absorbs the potentially dangerous radiation contained therein. Human skin pigmentation varies across populations in a visually dramatic manner. This has sometimes led to the classification of people(s) on the basis of skin color. See the article on human skin color for more information.
Mammalian skin often contains hairs, which in sufficient density is called fur. The hair mainly serves to augment the insulation the skin provides. On some animals the skin is very hard and thick, and can be processed to create leather.
Damaged skin will try to heal by forming scar tissue, often giving rise to discoloration and depigmentation of the skin.
The skin is often known as "the largest organ in the human body": this does not only (obviously) apply with regard to surface area, but also with regard to weight, as it weighs more than any single internal organ.
Layers
Skin is composed of the epidermis and the dermis. Below these layers lies the hypodermis, which is not usually classified as a layer of skin. The outermost epidermis is made up of stratified squamous epithelium with an underlying basement membrane. It contains no blood vessels, and is nourished by diffusion from the dermis. The main type of cells which make up the epidermis are keratinocytes, with melanocytes and Langerhans Cells also present. The epidermis can be further subdivided in to the following strata (beginning with the outermost layer): corneum, lucidum, granulosum, spinosum, basale. Cells are formed through mitosis at the innermost layers. They move up the strata changing shape and composition as they differentiate and become filled with keratin. They eventually reach the corneum and become sloughed off. This process is called keratinization and takes place within days (check?).The dermis lies below the epidermis and contains a number of structures including blood vessels, nerves, hair follicles, smooth muscle, glands and lymphatic tissue. It is made up of dense connective tissue - collagen, elastin and reticular fibres are present. The main cell types are fibroblasts, adipocytes (fat storage) and macrophages. The dermis can be split in to the papillary and reticular layers. The papillary layer is outermost and extends in to the dermis to supply it with vessels. It is composed of loosely arranged fibres. Papillary ridges make up the lines of the hands. The reticular layer is more dense and is continuous with the hypodermis. It contains the bulk of the structures (such as sweat glands). The reticular layer is composed of irregularly arranged fibres and resists stretching.
The hypodermis is not part of the skin, and lies below the dermis. Its purpose is to attach the skin to underlying bone and muscle as well as supplying it with blood vessels and nerves. It is made up of loose connective tissue and elastin. The main cell types are fibroblasts, macrophages and adipocytes (the hypodermis contains 50% of body fat). Fat serves as padding and insulation for the body.
Types
Skin can be dividided in to thick and thin types. Thick skin is present on the soles of the feet and the palms of the skin. It has a larger stratum corneum with a higher keratin content. Thick skin does not grow hair. Its purpose is to help grip. Thin skin is present on the bulk of the body and has a smaller stratum corneum and fewer papillae ridges. It has hair and is softer and more elastic.
Aging
As skin ages is becomes thinner and more easily damaged. Intensifying this effect is the decreasing ability of skin to heal itself. Skin sagging is caused by the fall in elasticity. Skin also receives less blood flow and lower gland activity.In medicine, the branch concerned with the skin is called dermatology.
The skin is subject to constant attack from without, and so can be afflicted by numerous ailments, such as:
Regarding exposure of the skin to the view by others, and preventing that, see nudity, nudism, modesty, clothing.
- Skin cancer
- Rashes
- Acne
- Fungal infections such as athletes foot
- microbial infections.
Fruit such as orangess also have a skin or peel, which is often removed (peeled) before eating.
- '\'See also'': Birthmark
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Skin."
Synonyms: SkinSynonyms: cutis (n), hide (n), pelt (n), rind (n), tegument (n), abrade (v), bark (v), clamber (v), pare (v), peel (v), scramble (v), scrape (v), shin (v), shinny (v), sputter (v), struggle (v), stub (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Integument, tegument; skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide; pelt, peltry; cordwain; derm; robe, buffalo robe; cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis. |
Disjunction | Cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb; take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb; divellicate; skin; disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband; disperse; dislocate, disjoint; break up; mince; comminute; (pulverize); apportion. |
Divestment | Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin. |
Exteriority | Noun: exteriority; outside, exterior; surface, superficies; skin; (covering); superstratum; disk, disc; face, facet; extrados. |
Thief | Spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier; piqueerer, pickeerer; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee, wrecker, picaroon; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man. |
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Screenplays | Mmmmm, butter cream, butter cream, croc skin, butter cream (Rush Hour 2; writing credit: Jeff Nathanson) Hey, no skin off my Ashtabula (A League of Their Own; writing credit: Kim Wilson; Kelly Candaele) They'll make a suit from your freshly peeled skin. They'll shave your liver, squeeze the jelly from your eyes (Shrek; writing credit: Ted Elliott) Of course the bra isn't going to fit on a leotard! A bra's got to go up against the skin! Like a glove (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) I hate to tell you this but your skin makes the Rocky Mountains look like chiffon velvet (The Women; writing credit: Anita Loos) | |
Lyrics | Can not see under my skin (When I'm Gone; performing artist: 3 DOORS DOWN) Her eyes her smile her skin her smell her hair, her walk her talk her way her (There She Goes; performing artist: Babyface) Under my skin (Tell Me; performing artist: Billie Myers) Oh, I put on my shark skin jacket (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) Just to slip this skin, (STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) | |
Clever | Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. (references; author: Mark Twain) The skin was moist and dry. (references; author: unknown) Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. (references; author: unknown) Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes all the way to the bone! (references; author: unknown) If God had meant for us to be in the Army, we would have been born with green, baggy skin. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Skin (2003) Under the Skin (2002) Skin Deep (1971) Satan's Skin (1970) Sad Song of Yellow Skin (1970) | |
Song Titles | I've Got You Under My Skin (performing artist: The Four Seasons) Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (performing artist: The Temptations) | |
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 | Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies confirm that this patient's cutaneous t-cell lymph cancer involves the lymph nodes and skin. The antibodies collect in the cancerous lymph nodes of the armpits, neck and groin and a strong outline of the patient's body verifies skin involvement. The liver and spleen are darkened, too, because it is normal for these organs to collect the antibodies. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Three drawings of individuals checking themselves during a skin self exam. First is a man standing, examing his back in a mirror; second, a woman sitting on stool examing her feet; third, woman checking face in hand mirror. Credit: Jeanne Kelly (artist). |
 | Closeup of man's chest showing skin lesion of meningococcemia. Credit: CDC. |  | Skin ulcer due to leishmaniasis, hand of Central American adult. Credit: CDC. |
 | A bidarrah or large skin boat off St. George Island. F&WS 10,030. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Skin divers getting ready for a dive off the SHACKLETON. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Chesapeake Bay Virginia National Estuarine Research Reserve. A brown water snake preparing to shed its skin. These reptiles are common throughout the area. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A snake shed its skin on this seaside goldenrod - Solidago sempervirens. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Aedes aegypti mosquito on human skin. Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | Walrus Hunters In Skin Boat. Credit: Alaska Image Library. |
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| "Skin" by Jack Hirsch Commentary: "Pic I took of my side. Tried to get the shadows to show up as much as possible. Just wanted the light and dark to contrast." | "Lamb skin 2" by Line Madsen Commentary: "Lamb skin mmmmmm..." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Year's wrinkle the skin; but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. |
Henry Ward Beecher | Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. |
Henry Wheeler Shaw | It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast if off, it will take skin and all. |
Karl Marx | Labor in a white skin cannot be free as long as labor in a black skin is branded. |
Thomas B. Aldrich | Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The robe of speculative cobwebs, embroidered with flowers of rhetoric, steeped in the dew of sickly sentiment, this transcendental robe in which the German Socialists wrapped their sorry "eternal truths," all skin and bone, served to wonderfully increase the sale of their goods amongst such a public. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1901) |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | His skin seemed to be pulled backwards from the nose |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The nights are quite cold, and this skin retains the warmth |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Uncle Charles was a hale old man with a welltanned skin, rugged features and white side whiskers |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He smiled, and his teeth were very white against his brown skin. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | His clothes, shirt, and skin were all of the same color |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Your skin may darken. (references) | |
Six skin types have been defined. (references) | ||
Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. (references) | ||
Business | Local skin and hair care products form over 70 percent of the total market. (references) | |
U.S. skin care products and cosmetics are well received by consumer in these segments. (references) | ||
Previously Russian manufacturers represented mostly inexpensive brands of hygienic and skin care products. (references) | ||
Children | Philippines | In September a former NPA member, recruited at age 13 and carrying a weapon by the time she was 15, told reporters that the NPA had deceived her into believing that the Government was "nothing but evil." A 12-year-old former NPA member said that he cooperated with the NPA against his will because "I feared for my family, they said they would skin them alive." According to domestic and international NGO's, the MILF recruited children as young as 12 years of age to serve as reserve forces. (references) |
Discrimination | Macedonia | The Constitution provides for equal rights for all citizens regardless of their sex, race, color of skin, national or social origin, political or religious beliefs, property, or social status. (references) |
Economic History | Rwanda | Agriculture (2001 est.): 47% of GDP. Products--coffee, tea, cattle, hides and skin, pyrethrum. (references) |
Human Rights | Russia | Head lice, scabies, and various skin diseases were prevalent. (references) |
India | His legs allegedly had been set on fire and the skin peeled off by the soldiers. (references) | |
Haiti | Other common sicknesses besides malnutrition are skin problems, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | On April 28, a 30-year-old man with darker skin from southern Slovakia died after being stabbed in the heart by a group of skinheads. (references) |
Russia | Police reportedly beat, harassed, and demanded bribes from persons with dark skin, or who appeared to be from the Caucasus, Central Asia, or Africa. (references) | |
Haiti | Longstanding social and political animosities often are tied to cultural identification, skin color, and overlapping issues of class in this starkly inegalitarian society. (references) | |
Political Economy | JAMAICA | No animal carcasses (meat, bones, hide, skin, hooves, etc.) can be imported without a permit issued by the Director of Veterinary Services, Jamaica, along with an official health certificate issued by an official government veterinarian. (references) |
Trade | Dominican Rep | Import licenses are not required for most products, except pharmaceutical products (drugs, cosmetics and skin care products) and agro-chemicals. (references) |
Korea | On its negative export list, Korea also prohibits the export of 13 items by Harmonized System 6 digit classification, including whale meat, uncut pieces of stone (granite, etc), and dog fur or skin products. (references) | |
Travel | Cote D'ivoire | Tuberculosis skin tests should be done after long stays in Côte d'Ivoire. (references) |
Ghana | They may be infested with organisms that cause schistosomiasis (also called Bilharziasis), a parasitic disease transmitted through the skin. (references) | |
Women | Czech Republic | Amendments to the law in 1999 and 2000 explicitly prohibit employment discrimination based on a variety of factors, including sex, race, skin color, sexual orientation, language, faith, health and family status, and repeated offenses are punishable by fines of up to 1 million Czech crowns. (references) |
Worker Rights | Belize | Health clinics in the region report that the most frequently treated ailments are pesticide-related skin conditions. (references) |
Panama | Workers have complained of sterility and more recently of adverse skin conditions as a result of exposure to the chemicals. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it, Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. |
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Dennis Miller | Between skin bleach, hair relaxer and that scale-model Barbie nose, it seems to me that the only person who obviously has a problem with Michael Jackson's race, is Michael Jackson. |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Justice means a man's hope should not be limited by the color of his skin. |
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| "Skin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.90% of the time. "Skin" is used about 7,019 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.9% | 7,012 | 1,383 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.06% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.03% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,019 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Nu Skin Enterprises Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "skin": abrasion of the skin ♦ all skin and bone ♦ alligator skin ♦ animal skin ♦ anomalous skin effect ♦ artificial skin ♦ ass in lion's skin ♦ bark one's skin ♦ be drenched to the skin ♦ be nothing but skin and bone ♦ beauty is only skin deep ♦ Beaver skin ♦ Bleeding in the skin ♦ Bronzed skin disease ♦ buck skin ♦ by the skin of one's teeth ♦ calf skin ♦ cast the skin ♦ chapped skin ♦ corrugated inner wing skin ♦ creeping of the skin ♦ crocodile skin ♦ deer skin ♦ disease of the skin ♦ doe skin ♦ double skin ♦ Dragon's skin ♦ drenched to the skin ♦ electrical skin response ♦ escape by the skin of one's teeth ♦ Ethiopia's skin ♦ fear for one's skin ♦ fold of skin ♦ fold of the skin ♦ galvanic skin response ♦ get off with whole skin ♦ get under smb.'s skin ♦ glossy skin ♦ goat skin ♦ Gold beater's skin ♦ goose skin ♦ Grape Skin ♦ have a thick skin ♦ have a thin skin ♦ Healing the Skin from Within ♦ horn skin ♦ Hyson skin ♦ in one's bare skin ♦ jump out of the skin ♦ lamb skin ♦ lizard skin ♦ Lumpy Skin Disease ♦ Lumpy Skin Disease Virus ♦ make smb.'s skin crawl ♦ make the skin crawl ♦ mere skin and bone ♦ nonmelanoma skin cancer ♦ nothing but skin and bones ♦ occupational skin disease ♦ onion skin ♦ orange skin ♦ original skin ♦ outer skin ♦ peel off the skin on one's knees ♦ potato skin ♦ rabbit skin ♦ remove the skin ♦ sailor's skin ♦ save one's skin ♦ scaly skin ♦ shed its skin ♦ shed one's skin ♦ skin a flint ♦ skin a rabbit ♦ Skin Abnormalities ♦ Skin Aging ♦ skin and bone ♦ skin and bones ♦ Skin and Connective Tissue Diseases ♦ skin away ♦ skin bottle ♦ skin cancer ♦ skin carcinoma ♦ skin care ♦ skin cell ♦ skin color ♦ skin colour ♦ skin condition ♦ Skin conditions ♦ skin crack ♦ skin cream ♦ Skin darkening ♦ skin deep ♦ Skin discoloration ♦ skin disease ♦ skin disorder ♦ Skin disorders ♦ skin diver ♦ skin diving ♦ skin doctor ♦ skin dry a mould. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "skin": skin-absorption, skin-boats, skin-brushing, skin-burrowing, skin-care, skin-changer, skin-clad, skin-cloak, skin-colour, skin-coloured, skin-colouring, skin-colours, skin-conditioning, skin-contact, skin-covered, skin-covering, skin-cracking, skin-creams, skin-deep, skin-dive, skin-diver, skin-divers, skin-diving, skin-flattering, skin-flintery, skin-flint-swimmer, skin-fold, skin-folds, skin-food, skin-friendly, skin-glands, skin-graft, skin-hammers, skin-heads, skin-like, skin-milling, skin-of-the-teeth, skin-peeling, skin-popping, skin-prick, skin-safe, Skin-scorcher, skin-sensitive, skin-shedding, skin-side, skin-silkening, skin-smoothing, skin-surface, skin-test, skin-tight, skin-tingling, skin-tone, skin-toned, skin-to-skin, skin-type, skin-types, skin-whitening, skin-winged, skin-wriggling. | |
Ending with "skin": crocodile-skin, dead-skin, leopard-skin, onion-skin, syn-skin. | |
Containing "skin": rough-skin plum, slip-skin grape. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
skin | 6,015 | sheep skin | 714 |
skin care | 5,388 | skin problem | 709 |
skin cancer | 4,222 | icq skin | 681 |
win amp skin | 4,016 | yahoo skin | 624 |
mr skin | 3,173 | window media player skin | 615 |
sims skin | 2,980 | aim skin | 583 |
counter strike skin | 2,886 | natural skin care | 544 |
cs skin | 2,056 | celebrity skin | 535 |
msn skin | 1,332 | dry skin | 514 |
skin care product | 1,318 | the sim skin | 498 |
skin disease | 1,301 | sims nude skin | 461 |
skin disorder | 1,207 | itchy skin | 455 |
skin rashes | 1,185 | cancer skin picture | 442 |
kazaa skin | 1,102 | messenger skin | 432 |
msn messenger skin | 1,080 | freedom force skin | 418 |
skin condition | 861 | counter strike weapon skin | 414 |
sheep skin rug | 843 | clear skin | 413 |
skin tag | 823 | city skin vice | 397 |
yahoo messenger skin | 815 | natural skin care product | 366 |
skin rash | 782 | ultra skin.com | 357 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "skin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vel. (various references) | |
Albanian | lëkurë (derm, fell, hide, jacket, leather, Peel, peeling, peltry, rind). (various references) | |
Arabic | جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), شخص خسيس, شفى (cure, fix, get better, get over, get well, heal, mend, pull round, recover, recuperate, restore, set up), إلتأم (coalesce, convene, gather, heal, rally, unite), إلتحم (adhere, coalesce, cohere, solder, unite, weld), إندمل (heal), بشرة (color, colour, complexion, cuticle, epidermis, outer skin), المحتال (artist, bluffer, cheat, crook, dodger, impostor, juggler, kite, knave, queue jumper, rook, shark, sharper, swindler), قربة (bottle, canteen, goatskin), خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick, victimize, wile), سلب (bereave, depredation, desiccation, despoil, dispossess, dispossession, divest, evisceration, flay, fleece, harrow, loot, looting, maraud, milk, pillage, piracy, plunder, plundering, raid, ransack, rape, rapine, ravish, ravishment, rejoice, riffle, rifle, rob, robbery, sack, spoil, spoliation, steal, stick up, strip), سلخ (pick off, strip), قشدة (cream, whipped cream), قشر (bark, exfoliate, hull, husk, pare, peel, rind, scale, scrape, shave, shell, shuck, strip), قشرة (bark, cortex, hull, husk, peel, rind, scale, shard, shell, shuck, squama, test), النصاب (impostor, shark, sharper, swindler). (various references) | |
Asturian | pelleyu. (various references) | |
Basque | azal (peel, rind). (various references) | |
Bemba | inkanda. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обелка, изигравам (bamboozle, cheat, con, diddle, do smb., fob, hoodwink, let in, milk, outwit, play out, prey, sell, skunk, suck in, trepan, trick, trim), покривам се с коричка, беля (decorticate, exfoliate, mischief, nuisance, packet, pare, peel, pill, rind, shell, shuck, trouble), мошеник (blackguard, cheat, crook, dead beat, deadbeat, dodger, grafter, gyp, hustler, jongleur, knave, palmer, picaroon, rogue, scoundrel, sham, shark, sharp, trickster, varlet, wretch), мошеничество (blackguardism, cheat, dishonesty, fraudulence, harlotry, have, knavery, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, roguery, skuldggery, swiz, thimblerig, trickery), мях (bellows, fanner), напердашвам (clobber, dress down, lace, lambaste, larrup, lather, paddle, pepper, thrash, whale), наругавам (lace, lambaste, pepper, pitch into, slang, slate, talk to, tell off), дера (flay, tear), обирам (burgle, mop up, mulct, plunder, ramp, ransack, roll, stick up, strip, strip bare), скръндза (piker, scrape-penny, skinflint), обшивка (coat, coating, lag, liner, lining, shell, siding, welt), олющвам (excoriate, husk), ожулвам си, външен пласт (rind), външен слой (facing), кожа (derm, fell, fur, furring, head, hide, leather, pelage, pelt, wrap), кора (bark, cortex, cover, crust, heel, incrustation, jacket, rind), ципа (coat, cuticle, envelope, envelopment, membrane, shell, velum), одирам (abrade, excoriate, flay, flench, flense, raw, soak, tear off). (various references) | |
Cebuano | panit. (various references) | |
Chamorro | lassas. (various references) | |
Chinese | 臚 (bashfulness, belly, smell of urine, to state), 膚 (shoulder, upper arm), 皮膚 , 皮肤 (Cutaneous, Dermal), 皮 (fur, leather). (various references) | |
Cornish | croghen. (various references) | |
Czech | stáhnout kùži (flay), stáhnout izolaci z èeho, slupka (Hull, husk, jacket, Peel), oloupat (decorticate, exfoliate, pare, Peel, rind, strip), odřít si (bark, graze), kožešina (pelt), kùra (bark, cortex, crust, Peel, rind), kùže (derm, fell, hide, leather, Pell, rind), izolace (insulation, isolation, seclusion), škraloup (crust). (various references) | |
Danish | skind (fur, hide), hud (hide). (various references) | |
Dutch | vel (fur, hide, leaf, sheet), huid (fur, hide), vacht (fur, hide), pels (fur, fur coat, fur piece, hide), dierevel (fur, hide). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | cara. (various references) | |
Esperanto | senhaŭtigi, senfeligi (flay, strip), haŭto, felo (fur, hide). (various references) | |
Faeroese | húð (corn, fur, hide). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوست کندن (Bark, Hide, Hull, Pare, Peel, Pelt, Rind, Ross), پوست (Cortex, Cuticle, Hide, Hull, Husk, Membrane, Peel, Peeling, Rind, Shale, Shell, Slough), چرم (Hide, Leather), لخت کردن (Doin, Harry, Pluck, Ransack, Rifle, Rob, Strip), جلد (Case, Copy, Cover, Epidermis, Holster, Jacket, Nimble, Quick, Sheath, Sheathe, Shell, Tome, Volume, Yare), باپوست پوشاندن . (various references) | |
Finnish | iho (complexion). (various references) | |
French | peau (skinning), revêtement (skim coating), fourrure, dépouiller (skinning, to skin, to take off the skin). (various references) | |
Frisian | hûd. (various references) | |
German | Haut (cutaneous, dermal, dermis, hews, hide, integument, Peel, pelt), Fell (coat, fell, fleece, fur, hide, pelt), Schale (bark, basin, bowl, capsule, carapace, champagne glass, course, cup, dish, hull, husk, pan, Peel, peeling, pelvis, plate, platter, pod, rind, scarves, shell, shuck), Pelz (coat, fur, fur coat, fur piece, hide, pelt), häuten (flay, strip, to skin), Balg (bellows, brat, fell, fur, hide, pelt). (various references) | |
Greek | δέρμα (dermis, integument, leather, pelt), γδέρνω (excoriation, flay, graze, scuff), φλούδα (husk, pod, rind, shuck). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | lëkurë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לשרוט (graze, scarify, scotch, scrape, scratch, slash), לקלף (husk, pare, shell), לפשוט עור (flay), קלפה (bark, Hull, husk, paring, Peel, rind, shell, tegument), קרום (film, membrane, rind), פרוה (fur), עור (dermis, leather, tegument), אוב (leather bag, magic, necromancy, sorcery), גלד (corium, hide, rind), נאד (ascus, goatskin, leather bag, skin bottle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | héj (carapace, cod, crust, Hull, husk, jacket, peel, rind, scale, shell, shuck). (various references) | |
Indonesian | membeset (occupy), kulit (hide, hull, leather, peel). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | amiq. (various references) | |
Irish | craiceann. (various references) | |
Italian | pelle (coat, fell, fur, hide, leather, pelt, rind), cute (cutis), buccia (husk, paring, Peel, pod, rind, shuck). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 肌 (body, disposition, grain, texture), 皮 (bark, fur, hide, leather, pelt, shell), 毛皮 (fur, pelt). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きふ (contribution, donation, writing a musical score), ひふ, ひょうひ (epithelium, rind), うわかわ (cuticle, epidermis, epithelium, outer skin, rind, surface, upper side), かわ (bark, case, fur, good story, hide, leather, part, pelt, river, row, shell, side, stream, surroundings), スキン , けがわ (fur, pelt), じょうひ (cuticle, epidermis, epithelium, outer skin, rind, unnecessary expense, unnecessary expenses), はだ (body, disposition, grain, one's bent, surface texture, temperament, texture). (various references) | |
Kongo | nkanda nitu. (various references) | |
Korean | 피부 (Dermal). (various references) | |
Macedonian | koza (goat). (various references) | |
Malay | kulit (leather). (various references) | |
Manx | speeiney (bark, bark as tree, barking, peel, pluck, pluck out, plucking, pull off, rind, skinning, strip, tease out, teasing), sheh (fur, hide, pelt), shea, fanney (bite, bite of wind, dress down, excoriation, flay, fleece, fly-fishing, scalp, skinning, slash, slashing, slating, soak, tirade), crackanagh (colourable), crackan (fur, hide, peel, pelt, rind, slough). (various references) | |
Maori | kiri. (various references) | |
Maya | ooth. (various references) | |
Norwegian | hud (hide). (various references) | |
Occitan | pèl. (various references) | |
Papago | elkona. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kueru (leather), kuero (leather). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inskay.(various references) | |
Polish | skóra. (various references) | |
Portuguese | pele (bark, coat, derm, fell, fur, fur coat, hide, husk, jacket, peel, rind), cútis (complexion), casca (bark, bread crust, coat, cockleboat, crust, hull, husk, piecrust, rind, scale, shell, shuck). (various references) | |
Provencal | pèl. (various references) | |
Romanian | strat superior, descoji (bark, decorticate, Hull, husk, Peel, rind, scalp, shell), beli (bark, flay, fleece, Rob), blanã (coat, fur, furring, neckpiece, plank), burduf (bellows), caimac (cream, flower), coajã (bark, cortex, crust, Hull, husk, jacket, leather, peeling, rind, scale, scurf, shell), coji (bark, disbark, excoriate, exfoliate, husk, parings, pill, rind, strip), înveliş (cap, casement, casing, clothing, coat, coating, cover, crust, dress, envelopment, film, integument, jacket, lap, layer, mantle, shroud), curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, clean, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, trim, wash, wipe), zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, miserly, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), despuia (denude, despoil, disarray, shear, strip, undress), gloabã (crock, hack, jade, nag, plug, rip), jupui (abrade, bark, excoriate, flay, fleece, gall, graze, Harry, Peel, pill, raw, rip off, Rob, scratch, soak, strip, wound), obraz (appearance, aspect, cheek, countenance, crust, face, index), piei, piele (hide), crustã (crust, incrustation, rind, scab, scurf). (various references) | |
Romansch | pel. (various references) | |
Romany | morthì. (various references) | |
Ruanda | umubiri. (various references) | |
Russian | шкура (fell, hide, pelage, pelt), кожура (aril, paring, pod, rind, shell), кожа;шкура;кожура, кожа (dermis, hide, leather, pelt), оболочка (capsule, coat, cover, covering, envelope, film, involucre, membrane, sheath, shell, shells, tegument), ободрать (fleece, tear), наружный слой (veneer), накожный, пенка (scum). (various references) | |
Samoan | pau. (various references) | |
Scottish | seic (a rack, a skin or hide, hide; enveloping membrane, meal-bag made of rushes, stable rack), rùsg (a fleece, external covering, rind), plaosg (a husk, burst from the husk, empty shell, husk, open the eyes, outer skin), peall, craicionn, craiceann, cneas (waist). (various references) | |
Sepedi | letlalo. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | oplata (planking, revetment, sheeting, shirt), omotač (capsule, involucre, mantle, shell, wrapper), oderati (flay), kožni (cutaneous, dermal, leather, leathern), koža (bark, fell, hide, leather, pelt), košuljica (valve), derati (bawl, scream, tear). (various references) | |
Sicilian | peddi. (various references) | |
Spanish | piel (fell, fur, fur coat, fur piece, hide, leather, Peel, pelt, rind), cutis (complexion). (various references) | |
Sranan | skin (body), buba (bark, husk, peel, shell). (various references) | |
Swedish | skinn (cast, fell, film, fur, fur of a fox, hide, leather, neat's leather, pelt, peltry, skins), hud (fell, hide, integument, pelt), skinna (flay, fleece, pluck), skal (coat, hull, husk, integument, jacket, parings, peel, peeling, peelings, rind, shell, shells, shuck), flå (flay). (various references) | |
Tagalog | balát. (various references) | |
Thai | ผิวหนัง. (various references) | |
Turkish | post (coat, fell, fur, hide, pelt). (various references) | |
Turkmen | soяmak (cut off), teletin (leather), deri (leather). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шкіра (bark, derm, derma, hide, leather), шкура (fell, pelt), обчищати лушпиння, оболонка (capsule, carcass, casing, casket, coma, covering, envelope, membrane, operculum, rind, sheath, shell, tunic), знімати шкіру, линяти (fade, moult, shell, wash out), бурдюк (sack), покриватися шкірою, покривати шкірою (leather). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | làm cho ai phải chú ý làm cho ai bực tức, không động chạm đến ai, da (integument). (various references) | |
Welsh | tonnen (bog, sward), ton (billow, breaker, lay-land, surface, wave), digroeni (bark), croen (hide, peel, rind), cen (film, lichen, peel, scales, scurf), blingo (flay). (various references) | |
Yucatec | k'ewel (leather). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ku. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | corium, excoriaverunt, membrana, pelle, pellem, pelles, pelli, pellibus, pelliculasque, pellis, pellium, scorta, scorti, scorto, scortum, spolia, spoliis, tergum, uter, uterque, utre, utrem, utres, utribus, utrimque, utrique, utrisque, utrum, utrumque, velius, velius, velieris. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | gunna. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | fell, hyd, rind. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 30, Verse 37 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Elaben de eautw iakwb rabdon sturakinhn clwran kai karuinhn kai platanou kai elepisen autaV iakwb lepismata leuka perisurwn to clwron efaineto de epi taiV rabdoiV to leukon o elepisen poikilon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tollens ergo Iacob virgas populeas virides et amigdalinas et ex platanis ex parte decorticavit eas detractisque corticibus in his quae spoliata fuerant candor apparuit illa vero quae integra erant viridia permanserunt atque in hunc modum color effectus est varius |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Iacob toke roddes of grene popular hasell and of chestnottrees and pilled whyte strakes in the and made the white apere in the staues: |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Jacob took to him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then Jacob took young branches of trees, cutting off the skin so that the white wood was seen in bands. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 30, Verse 37 |
| Cebuano | Ug mikuha si Jacob ug mga magagmay nga sanga nga lunhaw sa alamo ug sa avellano, ug sa castaño, ug iyang gipanitan kini sa mga panit nga maputi, ug gihimo nga makita ang kaputi niadtong mga sanga nga magagmay. |
| Croatian | A Jakov uzme zelenih mladica od topola, badema i platana; na njima izreza bijele pruge, otkrivši bjeliku na mladicama. |
| Danish | Men Jakob tog friske Grene af Hvidpopler, Mandeltræer og Plataner og afskrællede Barken således, at der kom hvide Striber på Grenene; |
| Dutch | Toen nam zich Jakob roeden van groen populierenhout, en van hazelaar, en van kastanje; en hij schilde daarin witte strepen, ontblotende het wit, hetwelk aan die roeden was. |
| Finnish | Mutta Jaakob otti itselleen tuoreita haavan, mantelipuun ja plataanin oksia ja kuori niihin valkeita juovia, paljastaen oksien valkoisen rungon. |
| French | Jacob prit des branches vertes de peuplier, d`amandier et de platane; il y pela des bandes blanches, mettant à nu le blanc qui était sur les branches. |
| German | Jakob aber nahm Stäbe von grünen Pappelbäumen, Haseln und Kastanien und schälte weiße Streifen daran, daß an den Stäben das Weiß bloß ward, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian Yakub mengambil dahan-dahan hijau dari pohon hawar, pohon badam dan pohon berangan, dan mengupas sebagian dari kulitnya sehingga menjadi belang-belang. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka oleh Yakub diambil beberapa ranting dari pada pohon hawar yang hijau-hijau dan dari pada pohon bondok dan kastal, dikupaskannya sampai bercorak-corak putih dan kelihatannyalah putihnya, yang pada ranting-ranting itu. |
| Maori | ¶ Katahi ka tikina e Hakopa etahi rakau mana, he papara mata, he aramona, he pereni; a tihorea ana e ia etahi tihorenga ma i aua mea, a ka meinga kia ata kitea te wahi ma o nga rakau. |
| Norwegian | Men Jakob tok sig friske kjepper av poppel-, hassel- og lønnetrær og skavde hvite striper på dem, så det hvite på kjeppene kom frem. |
| Rumanian | Iacov a luat nuiele verzi de plop, de migdal wi de platan; a despoiat de pe ele fqwii de coajq, wi a fqcut sq se vadq albeaya care era pe nuiele. |
| Swedish | Men Jakob tog sig friska käppar av poppel, mandelträd och lönn och skalade på dem vita ränder, i det han blottade det vita på käpparna. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "skin": skinflint, skinflints, skinful, skinfuls, skinhead, skinheads, skink, skinked, skinker, skinkers, skinking, skinks, skinless, skinlike, skinned, skinner, skinners, skinnier, skinniest, skinniness, skinninesses, skinning, skinny, skins, skint, skintight. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "skin": bearskin, buckskin, buskin, calfskin, capeskin, coonskin, cowskin, deerskin, doeskin, foreskin, foxskin, gaskin, goatskin, griskin, kidskin, kipskin, lambskin, moleskin, oilskin, onionskin, pigskin, redskin, scarfskin, sealskin, sharkskin, sheepskin, siskin, snakeskin, swanskin, wineskin, woolskin. (additional references) | |
Words containing "skin": asking, askings, asterisking, basking, bearskins, brisking, buckskinned, buckskins, buskined, busking, buskins, calfskins, capeskins, casking, coonskins, cornhusking, cornhuskings, cowskins, damasking, deerskins, disking, doeskins, duskiness, duskinesses, dusking, dyskinesia, dyskinesias, dyskinetic, embosking, foreskins, foxskins, friskiness, friskinesses, frisking, galligaskins, gasking, gaskings, gaskins, goatskins, griskins, huskiness, huskinesses, husking, huskings, kidskins, kipskins, lambskins, masking, maskings, moleskins, multitasking. (additional references) | |
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"Skin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: askin, eskin, ksi, Okin, oskin, sakan, sbin, scen, schn, sci, scian, scien, scinc, scinn, sciny, sciz, scn, seki, sekuin, skan, skand, skeen, skej, skena, skern, skib, skien, skig, skii, skiln, skina, skind, skine, skinn, skinp, Skione, skwint, smin, Soin, suin, swin, syin, Ts'in. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "skin" (pronounced ski"n) |
| 3 | -k i" n | akin, kin. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: inks, kins, sink. | |
| Words within the letters "i-k-n-s" | |
-1 letter: ink, ins, kin, sin, ski. | |
-2 letters: in, is, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "i-k-n-s" | |
+1 letter: dinks, finks, ginks, ikons, jinks, kains, kilns, kinas, kinds, kines, kings, kinks, kinos, kirns, knish, knits, links, minks, nicks, oinks, pinks, rinks, sinks, skein, skink, skins, skint, slink, snick, stink, swink, winks. | |
+2 letters: asking, blinks, brinks, buskin, chinks, clinks, drinks, eikons, enokis, gaskin, inkers, inkles, kamsin, kanjis, kiangs, kinase, kinins, knifes, knives, koines, likens, minkes, pekins, pinkos, plinks, prinks, reinks, shrink, sicken, silken, sinker, siskin, skeins, skiing, skinks, skinny, skying, slinks, slinky, snicks, stinko, stinks, stinky, swinks, takins, thinks, tsking. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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