Meaning of skin in English

be no skin off sb's nose
be skin and bone(s)
by the skin of your teeth
drenched/soaked/wet to the skin
get under sb's skin
have skin in the game
have thin/thick skin
jump/leap out of your skin
make sb's skin crawl
skin to skin

skin

verb [ T ]

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/skɪn/ us

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/skɪn/

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to remove the skin of something:

The hunters skinned the deer they had killed.

I skinned my knee (= hurt my knee by rubbing skin off it) when I fell down the steps.

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Hunting & fishing

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Preparing animals & fish for cooking

Idiom

skin sb alive

-skin

suffix

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/ -skɪn/ us

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used to form adjectives that describe the kind of skin that something is made of:

He was wearing an old sheepskin coat.

She was carrying a big, crocodile-skin handbag.

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Often they came upon bands of nomads in their goatskin tents.
They played lacrosse, using a deerskin ball and deerskin nets on sticks.
He wears a big bearskin cape that hangs down past his knees, and a bearskin hat and bearskin boots.

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The skin, hair & bone of non-human animals

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(Definition of skin from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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skin

noun

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/skɪn/

skin

verb [ T ]

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/skɪn/

-nn-

skin verb [T] (REMOVE BODY COVER)

to remove skin from an animal, or to rub skin off a part of the body:

Bridget fell off her bike and skinned her knee.

(Definition of skin from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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These were, body weight and breast size, lymphocele aspiration, smoking, age, previous skin cancer, tumour stage and radiation dose.

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Whether the recurrent episode is symptomatic or asymptomatic may depend, at least in part, on the number of virus particles present at the skin surface.

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In a frictional, pluralistic, society, we expect persons to have a certain thickness of skin.

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It is also considered a useful adjunct to all other treatments as part of skin cancer prevention.

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We included all articles with a primary emphasis on health, such as articles focusing on breast cancer screening or skin cancer prevention.

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The six to eight different maps in the interest-map sum were each salient features in themselves, such as skin-colour, motion, edges or colour saturation.

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Several studies18,21,30 have shown that skin conductance is positively correlated with arousal.

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Bodies here are a porous material where skin is less a limit than a portal.

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Information on patients' skin colour was either obtained from the case records or from attending caregivers.

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Three patients believed that the gel caused sedation; no troubles with skin irritation or muscle spasms were reported.

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Thus, patients at this institution are now advised to continue with their normal skin care routine using lotion, deodorant and soap.

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Year round, daily use is advised if the patient has a history of skin cancer, sun-damaged and ageing skin.

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Patients with a history of skin cancer should be advised to use a broad-spectrum sunscreen or sunblock with a sun-protection factor of 15 or above.

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Five categories of symptoms (skin and haemorrhagic, respiratory, gastrointestinal, neurological and unexplained) were adopted for the case definition of the surveillance.

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He was 5 feet 6 1/2 inches tall with dark skin, hazel eyes and black hair.

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