skin
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 →
2) The outer layer of a fruit or vegetable: "banana skin". tree →
3) A thin layer that forms on top of a liquid: "skin on hot milk". tree →
4) As a verb, to scrape the skin off: "I skinned my knee." tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In the Torah skin can be the covering of the Tabernacle (rams' skins and sealskins) or the skin of the body, where a disease might show. Interpretation: Priests judged skin marks under the laws of tzara'at, often translated as leprosy. Tradition treats these marks as a sign of a spiritual fault, such as gossip. In the primary 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
- and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood; (Torah EXO.25.5, JPS 1917) tree →
- But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing, (Torah LEV.13.35, JPS 1917) tree →
- And the flesh and the skin were burnt with fire without the camp. (Torah LEV.9.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? (Prophets JER.13.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are rent. (Prophets JOS.9.13, JPS 1917) tree →
- Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish-spears? (Writings JOB.40.31, JPS 1917) tree →
- Your skin protects your body. tree →
- Put sunscreen on your skin. tree →
- I peeled the skin off the orange. tree →
- She fell and skinned her knee. tree →
- Snakes shed their old skin. tree →
- Sweat on your skin helps you cool down. tree →
- People have many different skin colours. tree →
- We caught the bus by the skin of our teeth. tree →
- THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN tree →
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
- And the LORD God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins, and clothed them.
- And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck.
- and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;
- And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of sealskins above.
- and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «skin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.