skin
/skɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
Countable
noun
A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
Countable
noun
An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl."
- "Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers."
- "you know good leather, you know the best way to tan the hides and where to find the best skins"
- "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."
- "Do you eat the skin on custard?"
- "You can use this skin to change how the browser looks."
Etymology
From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide. Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish cenn (“covering, shell”), Irish scáin (“to tear, burst”), Latin scindō (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “to split”).