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# skin

«skin» in Mova's school dictionary: **The outer covering of a person's or animal's body** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (skin, skins); verb (skin, skins, skinned, skinning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The outer covering of a person's or animal's body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#m1)

2) The outer layer of a fruit or vegetable: "banana skin". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#m2)

3) A thin layer that forms on top of a liquid: "skin on hot milk". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#m3)

4) As a verb, to scrape the skin off: "I skinned my knee." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, skin is the body's biggest organ; it protects us from germs, keeps water in and helps us feel touch, heat and pain; sweat cools us. In safety: protect skin from sunburn; wash cuts; skin colours differ and all are normal. Phrases: by the skin of your teeth (only just), thick-skinned, skin and bones, sunscreen on skin.

### examples

- Your skin protects your body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x1)
- Put sunscreen on your skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x2)
- I peeled the skin off the orange. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x3)
- She fell and skinned her knee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x4)
- Snakes shed their old skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x5)
- Sweat on your skin helps you cool down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x6)
- People have many different skin colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x7)
- We caught the bus by the skin of our teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x8)
- THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/#x9)

### note

"Skin" is usually uncountable for the body, countable for fruit ("two banana skins"). A snake "sheds" its skin. Sunburn hurts your skin even on cloudy days.

### In the corpora

- [Babies wear nappies, which are changed six to ten times a day, and nappy cream stops sore skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/19-a-new-baby-in-the-house/16/)
- [Photos online are often smoothed with filters; real skin has lines and spots, and nobody looks like a filter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/53-breakfast-and-chat-shows-celebrity-gossip-on-the-sofa/19/)
- [You followed the lessons' events in words, so you know what people said about rain, not how rain feels on skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/27-who-you-are-words-not-body/10/)
- [The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/13/)
- [Zebras have black skin, so they are usually described as black with white stripes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/25-horses-zebras-and-donkeys/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «skin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.