Skeleton vs Skin - What's the difference?
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(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
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A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
(figuratively) A very thin person.
(From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge). See
(computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See
(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
(archaic) to minimize
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(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
(countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
(countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
(countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
(countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
(countable, slang)
(Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual?s physical skin''. 1994 , ''Macquarie Aboriginal Words , , paperback ISBN 0-949757-79-9, Introduction.
(countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.
(slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
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(nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
(nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
To injure the skin of.
To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
(colloquial) To high five.
(transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
(UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
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To become covered with skin.
To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
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(US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
(slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
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As nouns the difference between skeleton and skin
is that skeleton is (anatomy) the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals while skin is (uncountable) the outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.As verbs the difference between skeleton and skin
is that skeleton is (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize while skin is to injure the skin of.skeleton
English
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* sceletonNoun
(en-noun)- At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the ground.
- She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.
- RMI Nomenclature: in RMI, the client helper is a 'stub' and the service helper is a 'skeleton'.
- She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.
- The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone.
Synonyms
* (anatomy) ottomy (obsolete) * (type of tobogganing) skeleton tobogganing * (central core giving shape to something) backbone * (very thin person) See alsoAntonyms
* (computing) stubDerived terms
* skeletal * skeletallySee also
* bone * lugeVerb
(en verb)skin
English
(wikipedia skin)Noun
- He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
- 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.
- You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
- Pass me a skin , mate.
- Let me see a bit of skin .
- skins of wine
- (Totten)
Synonyms
* (outer covering of living tissue) dermis, integument, tegument * (outer protective layer of a plant or animal) peel (of fruit or vegetable), pericarp * (skin of an animal used by humans) hide, pelt * (congealed layer on the surface of a liquid) film * (subgroup of Australian Aboriginals) moiety, section, subsectionDerived terms
* banana skin * buckskin * by the skin of one's teeth * calfskin * cleanskin * comfortable in one's own skin * deerskin * doeskin * get under someone's skin * give some skin to * goatskin * goose skin * it's no skin off my back * jump in one's skin * lambskin * loinskin * make one's skin crawl * moleskin * no skin off my nose * pigskin * sealskin * second skin * sharkskin * sheepskin * shirts and skins * skin and bone, skin and bones * skin cancer * skin care, skincare * skin cell * skin cream * skin-deep * skin disease * skin effect * skin flick * skinflint * skin flute * skinfold * skinful * skin graft * skinhead * skin in the game * skinless * skin movie * skin type * snakeskin * waterskin * wineskinSee also
* cutaneous * cutis * dermis * epidermisVerb
(skinn)- He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
- Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
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- A wound eventually skins over.
- It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.