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skin
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)
- (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.
- 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
- the Bacchic train,
- 1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion
- (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Totten to this entry?)
- (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.
- A drink of whisky served hot.
- (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)
- (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?
- (Britain, 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.
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 Norwegian ski +? -an (infinitive suffix).
Verb
skin
- (Luserna) to ski
Noun
skin n
- (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)
- light, glare
- semblance
Verb
skin
- imperative of skinne
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
skin m or f (plural skins, diminutive skinnetje n)
- (computing) Skin
- 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)
- shine, shimmer, brightness
Declension
Derived terms
- sólskin
Anagrams
- sink
Middle English
Noun
skin
- Alternative form of skyn
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
skin
- inflection of skina:
- present
- imperative
Old Saxon
Etymology
From sk?nan.
Noun
sk?n n
- shine
Portuguese
Noun
skin f (plural skins)
- (computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)
- (countable, video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)
Swedish
Verb
skin
- imperative of skina.
Tok Pisin
Etymology
English skin
Noun
skin
- (anatomy) skin
Derived terms
- skin pas (envelope)
Volapük
Noun
skin (nominative plural skins)
- skin
Declension
Derived terms
skin From the web:
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strip
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: str?p, IPA(key): /st??p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe
Noun
strip (chiefly countable, plural strips)
- (countable) A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
- The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
- (usually countable, sometimes uncountable) A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
- A comic strip.
- A landing strip.
- A strip steak.
- (US) A street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- (sport of fencing) The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- (Britain, soccer) The uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- (mining) A trough for washing ore.
- The issuing of a projectile from a rifled gun without acquiring the spiral motion.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Farrow to this entry?)
- (television) A television series aired at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
Hyponyms
- (long, thin piece of bacon): rasher
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English str?epan (“plunder”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”)
Verb
strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)
- (transitive) To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
- (usually intransitive) To take off clothing.
- Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
- (intransitive) To perform a striptease.
- In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
- (transitive) To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
- The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
- They had stripped the forest bare, with not a tree left standing.
- They stript Joseph out of his coat.
- 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI
- He was obliged to sell his silver piece by piece; next he sold the drawing-room furniture. All the rooms were stripped; but the bedroom, her own room, remained as before.
- 2013, Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession (in The Guardian, 19 January 2013)[4]
- After the confession, the lawsuits. Lance Armstrong's extended appearance on the Oprah Winfrey network, in which the man stripped of seven Tour de France wins finally admitted to doping, has opened him up to several multi-million dollar legal challenges.
- (transitive) To remove cargo from (a container).
- (transitive) To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
- Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
- The screw is stripped.
- (intransitive) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- (transitive) To remove color from hair, cloth, etc. to prepare it to receive new color.
- (transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)
- (transitive) To empty (tubing) by applying pressure to the outside of (the tubing) and moving that pressure along (the tubing).
- (transitive) To milk a cow, especially by stroking and compressing the teats to draw out the last of the milk.
- To press out the ripe roe or milt from fishes, for artificial fecundation.
- (television, transitive) To run a television series at the same time daily (or at least on Mondays to Fridays), so that it appears as a strip straight across the weekly schedule.
- (transitive, agriculture) To pare off the surface of (land) in strips.
- (transitive) To remove the overlying earth from (a deposit).
- (transitive, obsolete) To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
- 1618, Georege Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo
- when first they stripp'd the Malean promontory
- Before he reached it he was out of breath, / And then the other stript him.
- 1618, Georege Chapman, A Hymn to Apollo
- To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action.
- To remove fibre, flock, or lint from; said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
- To pick the cured leaves from the stalks of (tobacco) and tie them into "hands".
- To remove the midrib from (tobacco leaves).
Conjugation
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:strip.
Synonyms
- deprive
- peel
- uncover
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
strip (plural strips)
- The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
- She stood up on the table and did a strip.
- (attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
- strip poker; strip Scrabble
- 1980, Victor Miller, Friday the 13th (film)
- We're going to play Strip Monopoly.
- 20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
- What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game of strip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good.
Derived terms
- strip poker
Translations
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
- Funk&Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary
Further reading
- strip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Strip in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- TRIPS, spirt, sprit, stirp, trips
Dutch
Etymology
From English strip.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
strip m (plural strips, diminutive stripje n)
- strip (long thin piece)
- comic (a cartoon story)
Synonyms
- (strip): strook
- (comic): beeldverhaal
Derived terms
- striptekenaar
Verb
strip
- first-person singular present indicative of strippen
- imperative of strippen
Portuguese
Noun
strip m (plural strips)
- Abbreviation of striptease.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From English strip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /strîp/
Noun
str?p m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- comic (a cartoon story)
Declension
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- what strips hair color
- what strips go with freestyle libre
- what strips paint off wood
- what strips bark off trees
- what strips car paint
- what strips polyurethane
- what striped bass eat
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