Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - skin
Skin
skin
n. & v. --n. 1 the flexible continuous covering of a human or other animal body. 2 a the skin of a flayed animal with or without the hair etc. b a material prepared from skins esp. of smaller animals (opp. HIDE(2)). 3 a person's skin with reference to its colour or complexion (has a fair skin). 4 an outer layer or covering, esp. the coating of a plant, fruit, or sausage. 5 a film like skin on the surface of a liquid etc. 6 a container for liquid, made of an animal's whole skin. 7 a the planking or plating of a ship or boat, inside or outside the ribs. b the outer covering of any craft or vehicle, esp. an aircraft or spacecraft. 8 Brit. sl. a skinhead. 9 US Cards a game in which each player has one card which he bets will not be the first to be matched by a card dealt from the pack. 10 = gold-beater's skin. 11 a duplicating stencil. --v. (skinned, skinning) 1 tr. remove the skin from. 2 (often foll. by over) a tr. cover (a sore etc.) with or as with skin. b intr. (of a wound etc.) become covered with new skin. 3 tr. sl. fleece or swindle. Phrases and idioms be skin and bone be very thin. by (or with) the skin of one's teeth by a very narrow margin. change one's skin undergo an impossible change of character etc. get under a person's skin colloq. interest or annoy a person intensely. have a thick (or thin) skin be insensitive (or sensitive) to criticism etc. no skin off one's nose colloq. a matter of indifference or even benefit to one. skin-deep (of a wound, or of an emotion, an impression, beauty, etc.) superficial, not deep or lasting. skin-diver a person who swims underwater without a diving-suit, usu. in deep water with an aqualung and flippers. skin-diving such swimming. skin effect Electr. the tendency of a high-frequency alternating current to flow through the outer layer only of a conductor. skin-flick sl. an explicitly pornographic film. skin-food a cosmetic intended to improve the condition of the skin. skin friction friction at the surface of a solid and a fluid in relative motion. skin game US sl. a swindling game. skin-graft 1 the surgical transplanting of skin. 2 a piece of skin transferred in this way. skin test a test to determine whether an immune reaction is elicited when a substance is applied to or injected into the skin. skin-tight (of a garment) very close-fitting. to the skin through all one's clothing (soaked to the skin). with a whole skin unwounded. Derivatives skinless adj. skin-like adj. skinned adj. (also in comb.). Etymology: OE scin(n) f. ON skinn
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I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse ~n; akin to Old English scinn ~, Middle High German schint fruit peel Date: 13th century 1. a. the integument of an animal (as a fur-bearing mammal or a bird) separated from the body usually with its hair or feathers, a usually unmounted specimen of a vertebrate (as in a museum), the hide or pelt of a game or domestic animal, c. the pelt of an animal prepared for use as a trimming or in a garment, a sheet of parchment or vellum made from a hide, bottle 1b, 2. the external limiting tissue layer of an animal body, an outer covering (as a rind or husk) of a fruit or seed, a membranous film or scum (as on boiling milk or drying paint), the life or physical well-being of a person , a sheathing or casing forming the outside surface of a structure (as a ship or airplane), ~less adjective II. verb (~ned; ~ning) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to strip, scrape, or rub off an outer covering (as the ~ or rind) of, to strip or peel off, to cut, chip, or damage the surface of , 2. to cover with or as if with ~, to heal over with ~, 3. to strip of money or property ; fleece, to defeat badly, censure, castigate, to urge on and direct the course of (as a draft animal), intransitive verb to become covered with or as if with ~, 2. shinny, to pass or get by with scant room to spare, III. adjective Date: circa 1935 involving subjects who are nude ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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