skin
- noun
- /skɪn/
- Specialized
- This is now like the Google skin on top of Android.
Examples
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I'm gonna use the skin in Free City 2.
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Stickable skin on your back and you pretty much there.
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Light-diffusing particles and pearl pigments instantly brighten skin and help reduce the appearance of fine lines.
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The new update features a sleek user interface with a dark skin that many users find appealing.
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You can choose different skins for the media player to personalize your listening experience.
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The game allows players to unlock new character skins that change their appearance without affecting gameplay.
Synonyms
A set of colors, fonts, and layout that changes a website's look
Idioms
- Offensive
To scold or punish someone severely to show strong anger, not a real action
- Informal
To annoy someone a lot by small things another person does
Completely wet, with water going through your clothes and reaching your skin
- Informal
Cause a strong feeling of fear or disgust with a creepy physical feeling
Compounds
- Specialized
A small living part of the skin that makes it and helps protect the body
- Specialized
A piece of healthy skin taken from one body part and placed on damaged skin to help it heal
- US
A crisp shell of potato peel fried or baked and topped with melted cheese and bacon
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A medical test that puts a small amount of something on the skin to check for allergy or past infection
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Change in the skin's tiny electrical activity when you feel stress or strong emotion
- Specialized
A two-layer man-made material used to replace or cover damaged skin after burns
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A change in the skin's electrical signal when someone feels stress or strong emotion
- Specialized
A flexible man-made covering that senses touch and temperature on robot hands and replacement limbs
- Specialized
A test that checks if you have been exposed to tuberculosis bacteria by putting a small medicine under the skin
- Specialized
High-frequency electric current flows mostly near a wire's surface instead of through the whole wire
How Complete
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skin for software or apps is a modern use of the old idea of a 'cover' (old skinn), so a digital skin is the outer look that changes how something appears without changing how it works.