skin meaning
EN
[skɪn] [-ɪn] 
US UK WSkin
- Skin is the soft outer covering of vertebrates. Other animal coverings such as the arthropod exoskeleton have different developmental origin, structure and chemical composition. The adjective cutaneous means "of the skin" (from Latin cutis, skin).
- Fur is dense hair. Primarily, fur augments the insulation the skin provides but can also serve as a secondary sexual characteristic or as camouflage. On some animals, the skin is very hard and thick, and can be processed to create leather.
- NounPLskinsSUF-kin
- NU The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
- NU The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- NC The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- NC A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
- 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.
- NC (computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
- You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
- NC SLA Rolling paper for cigarettes.
- Pass me a skin, mate.
- NC SLA Short for skinhead.
- (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
- NC (video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.
- SLA Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
- Let me see a bit of skin.
- 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.
- NU The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
- VerbSGskinsPRskinningPT, PPskinned
- VT To injure the skin of.
- He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
- VT To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
- COL To high five.
- VT (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) VT To use tricks to go past a defender.
- The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.
- VI To become covered with skin.
- A wound eventually skins over.
- VT 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.
- SLA (dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
- VT To injure the skin of.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl.
- Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
- So off we went, six sleazy hookers in low-cut leopard stretch tops, red teddys with micro minis, skin tight hot pink latex pants.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- In binding the protein loricrin, involucrin contributes to the formation of a cell envelope that protects corneocytes in the skin.
- I have to use a special washing-up liquid, because I have sensitive skin.
- The exact dimension of the cyst and its distance from the lateral knee joint line and the tibiotalar joint line were marked on the skin.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of skin in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "skin" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.