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What is the difference between skin and rind?

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In transitive terms the difference between skin and rind

is that skin is to cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially while rind is to remove the rind from.

skin

English

(wikipedia skin)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
  • He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
  • (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.
  • 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.
  • (countable, computing) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
  • You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
  • (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
  • Pass me a skin , mate.
  • (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.
  • Let me see a bit of skin .
  • A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
  • * Tennyson
  • skins of wine
  • (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
  • (Totten)
  • (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.
  • 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, subsection

    Derived 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 * wineskin

    See also

    * cutaneous * cutis * dermis * epidermis

    Verb

    (skinn)
  • To injure the skin of.
  • He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.
  • 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).
  • Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?
  • (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 30 , author=Kevin Darlng , title=Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.}}
  • To become covered with skin.
  • A wound eventually skins over.
  • To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  • * Shakespeare
  • It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (injure the skin of) bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape * (remove the skin of) flay, fleece, flense, scalp

    Derived terms

    * skinnable * skinner * skin up * there's more than one way to skin a cat * thin-skinned * thick-skinned * tough-skinned

    Anagrams

    * inks, sink

    References

    1000 English basic words ----

    rind

    English

    (wikipedia rind)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) rinde, from Proto-Germanic *rind?. Cognate with (etyl) Rinde.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • tree bark
  • A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc
  • * Shakespeare
  • Sweetest nut hath sourest rind .
  • * Milton
  • Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind / With all thy charms, although this corporal rind / Thou hast immanacled.
  • The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind "
  • * 1939 , Roy Forster, Joyous Deliverance , London: Thornton Butterworth, p. 262:
  • Taking the money from a man when he's got his pants down. What are you, a doctor or a tailor's tout? Thirty bucks! If I figured you'd have the rind to touch me that much I'd have lashed them up with a pair of braces!
  • * 1940 , Amy Helen Bell (ed.), London Was Ours: Diaries and Memoirs of the London Blitz, 1940-1941 , published 2002, Kingston, Ontario: Queen's University, ISBN 9780612732810, p. 99:
  • April 9, 1940. Then one of our RAF customers had the rind to suggest that ‘you women ought to give up smoking for the duration you know’. This , when they have the alternative of smoking pipes which is not open to us, [...]
  • *
  • * 2010 , (David Stubbs), Send Them Victorious: England's Path to Glory 2006-2010 , O Books (Zero Books), ISBN 9781846944574, p. 12:
  • [About a football match.] Come the second half and the Trinidadians and Tobagans had the immortal rind to make excursions into the England half, the spectacle of which was deeply offensive to those whose memories extend to those happy days before 1962, when independence was unwisely conferred on this archipelago. Back in those days, a game like this would have presented little anxiety. Any goals scored by the Trinidadians, or Tobagans for that matter, would have been instantly become the property of the Crown and therefore added to England's tally. Glad times – 22 men working together for a common aim. However, such is the insolence of the modern age that these dark fellows dared approach the England penalty box, forelocks untugged, as if demanding instant entry to the Garrick club without having been put up by existing members.
    Derived terms
    * immortal rind * pork rind
    See also
    * peel * skin

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the rind from.
  • Etymology 2

    Cognate with Flemish (rijne), Low German ryn.

    Alternative forms

    * rynd * rine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill
  • Anagrams

    * ----