skin
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
- 2.
(uncountable)The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
Đồng nghĩa: peel, pericarp
- 3.
(countable)The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
Đồng nghĩa: hide, pelt
- 4.
(countable)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.
Do you eat the skin on custard?
Đồng nghĩa: film
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(countable)(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.
You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
- 6.
(countable)(countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite.
- 7.
(countable, slang)Rolling paper for cigarettes.
Pass me a skin, mate.
- 8.
(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, countable, slang)Clipping of skinhead.
- 9.
(Australia, countable, uncountable)A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.
Đồng nghĩa: moiety
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(countable, slang, uncountable)Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
Let me see a bit of skin.
- 11.
(abbreviation, alt of, clipping, countable, uncountable)Clipping of drumskin
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(countable, uncountable)A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
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(countable, uncountable)(nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
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(countable, uncountable)(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.
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(countable, uncountable)(aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
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(countable, uncountable)A drink of whisky served hot.
- 17.
(British, Ireland, countable, slang, uncountable)A person; chap.
He was a decent old skin.
- 18.
(UK, countable, obsolete, uncountable)(UK, thieves' cant, obsolete) A purse.
- 19.
(countable, uncountable)(sports) A member of the team not wearing shirts, in a shirts and skins game.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To injure the skin of.
He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
Đồng nghĩa: bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape
- 2.
(transitive)To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
Đồng nghĩa: flay, fleece, flense, scalp
- 3.
(colloquial)To high five.
- 4.
(colloquial, transitive)(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?
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(UK, transitive)(UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
- 6.
(intransitive)To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer.
A wound eventually skins over.
Lefotver acrylic paint will often skin as it partially dries.
- 7.
(transitive)To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
- 8.
(US, archaic, slang)To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
- 9.
(dated, slang)To strip of money or property; to cheat.
- 10.
(intransitive, obsolete, slang)To sneak off.
- 11.
(transitive)(transitive, art) To remove the top layers of paint from, revealing parts of the underlying medium or canvas.
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(abbreviation, alt of)Short for skin up (“travel uphill on skis, snowboard, or bicycle”)
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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.