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External vs Outskin - What's the difference?

external | outskin |

In anatomy|lang=en terms the difference between external and outskin

is that external is (anatomy) away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral while outskin is (anatomy) the external skin.

As an adjective external

is outside of something; on the exterior.

As a noun outskin is

an outer skin; surface.

As a verb outskin is

to surpass in skinning.

external

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Outside of something; on the exterior.
    • This building has some external pipework.
  • * Milton
    • Of all external things, / She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Her virtues graced with external gifts.
  • Not intrinsic nor essential; accidental; accompanying; superficial.
  • * Trench
    • The external circumstances are greatly different.
  • Foreign; relating to or connected with foreign nations.
    • external''' trade or commerce; the '''external relations of a state or kingdom
  • (anatomy) Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral.

    • Antonyms

    * internal

    Related terms

    * externalization * externalize * externalism * externalist * externality

    External links

    * * * English words suffixed with -al

    outskin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outer skin; surface.
  • *1884 , Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine: Volume 8:
    • One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin , then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned.
  • *1896 , Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest :
    • But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.
  • *1948 , Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening :
    • The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin .
  • *1962 , Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24:
    • Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly [...]
  • *2005 , Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar :
    • Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman [...]
  • (anatomy) The external skin.
  • *1938 , George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158 :
    • They suffered from outskin -chafed necks and wrists, [...]
  • A skin or pelt of some special description.

    • Verb

    (outskinn)
  • To surpass in skinning.
  • *2009 , Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses :
    • There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.