"outskin" meaning in English

See outskin in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: outskins [plural]
Etymology: From out- + skin. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|skin}} out- + skin Head templates: {{en-noun}} outskin (plural outskins)
  1. An outer skin; surface.
    Sense id: en-outskin-en-noun-wfgBjdH-
  2. (anatomy) The external skin. Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-outskin-en-noun-aZPb7mpj Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  3. A skin or pelt of some special description.
    Sense id: en-outskin-en-noun-UMEzYRDE

Verb

Forms: outskins [present, singular, third-person], outskinning [participle, present], outskinned [participle, past], outskinned [past]
Etymology: From out- + skin. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|out|skin}} out- + skin Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} outskin (third-person singular simple present outskins, present participle outskinning, simple past and past participle outskinned)
  1. (transitive) To surpass in skinning. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-outskin-en-verb-RVKFhiOE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with out- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 23 11 55 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with out-: 23 20 7 50

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for outskin meaning in English (3.7kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "out",
        "3": "skin"
      },
      "expansion": "out- + skin",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From out- + skin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outskins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "outskin (plural outskins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884, Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine, volume 8",
          "text": "One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest",
          "text": "But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening",
          "text": "The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24",
          "text": "Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar",
          "text": "Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outer skin; surface."
      ],
      "id": "en-outskin-en-noun-wfgBjdH-",
      "links": [
        [
          "outer",
          "outer"
        ],
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Anatomy",
          "orig": "en:Anatomy",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158",
          "text": "They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The external skin."
      ],
      "id": "en-outskin-en-noun-aZPb7mpj",
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "external",
          "external"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) The external skin."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A skin or pelt of some special description."
      ],
      "id": "en-outskin-en-noun-UMEzYRDE",
      "links": [
        [
          "pelt",
          "pelt"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "outskin"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "out",
        "3": "skin"
      },
      "expansion": "out- + skin",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From out- + skin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outskins",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outskinning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outskinned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outskinned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "outskin (third-person singular simple present outskins, present participle outskinning, simple past and past participle outskinned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "11 23 11 55",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 20 7 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with out-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses",
          "text": "There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To surpass in skinning."
      ],
      "id": "en-outskin-en-verb-RVKFhiOE",
      "links": [
        [
          "surpass",
          "surpass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To surpass in skinning."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "outskin"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with out-",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "out",
        "3": "skin"
      },
      "expansion": "out- + skin",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From out- + skin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outskins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "outskin (plural outskins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1884, Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine, volume 8",
          "text": "One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1896, Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest",
          "text": "But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening",
          "text": "The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962, Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24",
          "text": "Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar",
          "text": "Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An outer skin; surface."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "outer",
          "outer"
        ],
        [
          "skin",
          "skin"
        ],
        [
          "surface",
          "surface"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Anatomy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1938, George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158",
          "text": "They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The external skin."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anatomy",
          "anatomy"
        ],
        [
          "external",
          "external"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(anatomy) The external skin."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "anatomy",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A skin or pelt of some special description."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pelt",
          "pelt"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "outskin"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with out-",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "out",
        "3": "skin"
      },
      "expansion": "out- + skin",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From out- + skin.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "outskins",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outskinning",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outskinned",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "outskinned",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "outskin (third-person singular simple present outskins, present participle outskinning, simple past and past participle outskinned)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses",
          "text": "There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To surpass in skinning."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surpass",
          "surpass"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To surpass in skinning."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "outskin"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (384852d and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.