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English

Etymology

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþ? (compare Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”) (compare Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit ??????? (chinátti, “he splits”)), nasal variant of *skeh?i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English h?d (“skin, hide”), see hide. More at shed.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sk?n, IPA^(key): /sk?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

1. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

2. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
3. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
4. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.

6. (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.

7. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
8. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.

9. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
10. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual?s physical skin.
11. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.

12. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
    • 1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion

      the Bacchic train,
      Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded poles
      That bent with mighty clusters of black grapes

13. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

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14. (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.
15. A drink of whisky served hot.
16. (slang, Ireland, Britain) person, chap

    He was a decent old skin.

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

Related terms

Translations

See also

• cutaneous
• cutis
• dermis
• epidermis

References

• skin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

skin (third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned)

1. (transitive) To injure the skin of.

   He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.

2. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
3. (colloquial) To high five.
4. (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?

5. (Britain, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
6. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.

   A wound eventually skins over.

7. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
8. (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.
9. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.

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

1. star

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Norwegian ski +? -an (infinitive suffix).

Verb

skin

1. (Luserna) to ski

Noun

skin n

1. (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

Noun

skin n (singular definite skinnet, not used in plural form)

1. light, glare
2. semblance

Verb

skin

1. imperative of skinne

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

skin m or f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)

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

Anagrams

• niks, snik

Icelandic

Etymology

From skína (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sc??n/
• Rhymes: -??n

  Homophone: skyn

Noun

skin n (genitive singular skins, nominative plural skin)

1. shine, shimmer, brightness

Declension

Derived terms

• sólskin

Anagrams

• sink

Middle English

Noun

skin

1. Alternative form of skyn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

skin

1. inflection of skina:
   1. present
   2. imperative

Old Saxon

Etymology

From sk?nan.

Noun

sk?n n

1. shine

Portuguese

Noun

skin f (plural skins)

1. (computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)
2. (countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)

Swedish

Verb

skin

1. imperative of skina.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English skin

Noun

skin

1. (anatomy) skin

Derived terms

• skin pas (envelope)

Volapük

Noun

skin (nominative plural skins)

1. skin

Declension

Derived terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English rubben, possibly from Low German rubben, rubbeling or Saterland Frisian rubben. Or, of North Germanic origin, such as Swedish rubba (“to move, scrub”), all from Proto-Germanic *reufan? (“to tear”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian rubje (“to rub, scrape”), German Low German rubben (“to rub”), Low German rubblig (“rough, uneven”), Dutch robben, rubben (“to rub smooth; scrape; scrub”), Danish rubbe (“to rub, scrub”), Icelandic and Norwegian rubba (“to scrape”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??b/, [??b], enPR: r?b
• (US) IPA^(key): /??b/, enPR: r?b
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

rub (plural rubs)

1. An act of rubbing.

2. A difficulty or problem.
3. (archaic) A quip or sarcastic remark.
4. In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
5. Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
   1. A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
6. (Britain, naval slang) A loan.

Synonyms

• (a difficulty or problem): hitch, hiccup, catch, kink, glitch, snag

Translations

Verb

rub (third-person singular simple present rubs, present participle rubbing, simple past and past participle rubbed)

1. (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.

2. (transitive) To rub something against (a second thing).
   • 1536 (originally published, the quote if from a later edited version of unknown date), Thomas Elyot, The Castel of Helth

     It shall be expedient, after that body is cleaned, to rub the body with a coarse linen cloth.

3. (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.

4. (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
5. (dated) To move or pass with difficulty.

6. To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
   • a. 1716, Robert South, Man Created in God's Image

     The whole business of our redemption is, in short, only to rub over the defaced copy of the creation

7. To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
8. (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• rub in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rub in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rub at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “rub”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

References

Anagrams

• bru, bur, bur-

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?b? (“something which was cut”), from *r?bati (“to cut, chop”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rup/
• Rhymes: -up
• Homophone: rup

Noun

rub m

1. back (the reverse side)

2. the other (often negative) aspect of a situation

Declension

Antonyms

• líc

Derived terms

• naruby

See also

• vzh?ru nohama
• rubat
• rub on the Czech Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^cs

References

Further reading

• rub in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• rub in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• rubaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [rup]

Verb

rub

1. second-person singular imperative of ruba?

Manx

Etymology

Borrowed from English rub.

Noun

rub m (genitive singular rub, plural rubbyn)

1. rub

Verb

rub (verbal noun rubbey or rubbal)

1. to rub

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *r?b?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rû?b/

Noun

r?b m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. rim
2. edge, brink

Declension

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English ribbe, from Old English ribb, from Proto-West Germanic *ribi.

Noun

rub (pluarl rubbès)

1. a rib

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN