Betekenis van skin In het Nederlands

• 0 the natural outer layer that covers a person, animal, fruit, etc.:

  • dark/fair/pale/tanned skin

  • skin cancer

  • Babies have soft skins.

  • a banana/potato skin

  • Native Americans used to trade skins .

  • a rug made from the skin of a lion

• 1 any outer covering:

  • The bullet pierced the skin of the aircraft.

• 2 a thin surface that forms on some liquids, such as paint, when they are left in the air, or others, such as heated milk, when they are left to cool

• 3 the pictures, designs, colours, etc. that appear on the screen of a mobile phone or other device and can be changed by the user:

  • Many electronic devices let you create your own skins.

  • Players have several options for purchasing weapon skins for all of the standard weapons in the game.

  • A skin is purely aesthetic - it doesn't increase the character's abilities or impact the outcome of the game.

• 4 to remove the skin of something:

  • The hunters skinned the deer they had killed.

  • I skinned my knee (= hurt my knee by rubbing skin off it) when I fell down the steps.

• 5 used to form adjectives that describe the kind of skin that something is made of:

  • He was wearing an old sheepskin coat.

  • She was carrying a big, crocodile-skin handbag.

• 6 the natural outer layer that covers a person or animal:

  • [ C ] leopard skins

  • [ U ] He had dark, leathery skin.

• 7 the outer covering of some fruits and vegetables:

  • potato skins

• 8 a thin, solid surface:

  • [ C ] Those airplanes have titanium skins to survive the heat.

• 9 to remove skin from an animal, or to rub skin off a part of the body:

  • Bridget fell off her bike and skinned her knee.