reskin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To replace or repair the skin of a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc., especially so as to market the same car under different brands
Transitive verb
verb
To change the skin, or visual appearance, of an application or a video game character etc.
Transitive verb
noun
Something that uses the exact same model as something else, but has superficial differences such as textures.
Example Sentences
- "A row of original, large and life-expired MoD 'wriggly tin' Nissen huts close to the Rail Live entrance haven't simply been reskinned, they have been replaced with new, modern equivalents to the original design."
- "The editor can be reskinned. In other words, the color scheme and look and feel of the buttons can be changed."
- "The result would be a reskin of an old game instead of an interesting new game."
Etymology
From re- + skin.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: re