Skin vs Flesh - What's the difference?
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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.
* Tennyson
(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.
* Shakespeare
(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.
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
*1918 , Fannie Farmer, , Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:
*:The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
The skin of a human or animal.
(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
(archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
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*:Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit
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*:The flesh' that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire:and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate ' flesh .
*:Yf any soule eate of the flesh' of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole(sic). ¶ Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the ' flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.
The human body as a physical entity.
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*:And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh , and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,
(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
*1769 , , 5, xvii,
*:For the flesh' lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the ' flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
*1929 January, Bassett Morgan ( ,
*:But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh .
(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
*2003 , Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest ,
*:The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
*Cowper
*:There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
*Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 27
*:He is our brother and our flesh .
A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
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To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
* 1933 , Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone (in) or (to) a given practice.
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To put flesh on; to fatten.
To add details.
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
In transitive terms the difference between skin and flesh
is that skin is to cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially while flesh is to bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.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.
Synonyms
* (injure the skin of) bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape * (remove the skin of) flay, fleece, flense, scalpDerived terms
* skinnable * skinner * skin up * there's more than one way to skin a cat * thin-skinned * thick-skinned * tough-skinnedAnagrams
* inks, sinkflesh
English
(wikipedia flesh)Noun
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Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
- And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.
- The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.