skin
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Is skin a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of skin?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.Examples: "He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl."; "Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers."uncountable
2. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.Synonyms: peel, pericarpuncountable
3. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.Synonyms: hide, peltcountable
4. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.Examples: "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?"Synonyms: filmcountable
5. (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.Examples: "You can use this skin to change how the browser looks."countable
6. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.Examples: "My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite."countable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To injure the skin of.Examples: "He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete."Synonyms: bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrapetransitive
2. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.Synonyms: flay, fleece, flense, scalptransitive
3. (colloquial) To high five.colloquial
4. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).Examples: "Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?"colloquialtransitive
5. (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.Examples: "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."UKtransitive
6. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.Examples: "A wound eventually skins over."intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary