SKIN

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skin I. substantiv

1. piele;

(anat.) outer skin epidermă;

(anat.) true skin dermă;

not to change one’s skin a nu-şi schimba năravul;

to have a thick skin a avea pielea groasă / obrazul gros; a fi nesimţitor; a fi gros la obraz;

to have a thin skin a fi susceptibil;

to jump out of one’s skin a) a-şi ieşi din fire (de bucurie, de mirare etc.); b) a tresări, a se înfiora (de plăcere, de uimire);

mere skin and bons numai pielea şi osul;

I shouldn’t like to be in his skin vrea să fiu în pielea lui;

next (to) one’s skin pe piele;

I always wear woollens next my skin port totdeauna ceva de lână pe piele;

to strip to the skin a se despuia, a fi gol-goluţ;

to come off with a whole skin a scăpa teafăr / neatins;

to fear for one’s skin a se teme pentru pielea sa; a-şi teme pielea;

to escape with / by the skin of one’s teeth a scăpa ca prin minune / ca prin urechile acului.

2. piele jupuită de pe un animal; plural pielărie;

fur skins blănărie, cojocărie.

3. foaie (de pergament).

4. pieliţă (de cârnat etc.).

5. (mar.) învelitoare (de vele).

6. (mar.) cocă.

7. pieliţă (pe suprafaţa laptelui etc.).

8. (metal.) crustă (pe fontă).

9. (bot.) coajă, pieliţă.

10. strat superior, înveliş.

11. burduf de piele (pentru vin etc.).

12. (sl.) mârţoagă.

13. (amer. sl.) avar, zgârcit, calic.

skin II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. (med.) (şi to over) a se acoperi cu piele; a se cicatriza.

2. a se jupui, a-şi pierde epiderma, a se descuama.

3. (amer. sl.) (through) a se strecura, a trece, a luneca (prin).

skin II. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a jupui de piele.

2. (fig. fam.) a jecmăni, a curăţa de bani, a jupui (la joc).

3. a curăţa de coajă (un fruct etc.).

4. (metal.) to skin a casting a scoate crusta unei piese turnate.

5. (mar.) to skin a ship a înveli coca unui nave.

◊ to skin a flint a se zgârci, a se calici;

(sl.) to keep one’s eyes skinned a fi cu ochii în patru.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“You must be a witch, Cat-skin,” said the cook; “for you always put something into your soup, so that it pleases the king better than mine.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

And you with not a hair to your face, and a skin like a girl.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That's how the skin got knocked off.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Studying human skin pigmentation helps researchers understand how the cells that produce skin pigment – melanocytes – and genes work together to protect skin from the damaging effects of UVR.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)

All that saved White Fang from death was the loose skin of his neck and the thick fur that covered it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

In truth, I was no longer the fine gentleman with a skin soft as a “lydy’s,” but only an ordinary and very worthless cabin-boy.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It was certainly never brilliant, but she would not allow it to have a sickly hue in general; and there was a softness and delicacy in her skin which gave peculiar elegance to the character of her face.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

As if awaked by the stir, Hannah started out of her sleep, hurried to the bed, looked at Beth, felt her hands, listened at her lips, and then, throwing her apron over her head, sat down to rock to and fro, exclaiming, under her breath, The fever's turned, she's sleepin' nat'ral, her skin's damp, and she breathes easy.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Since then four days have passed, during which we have engaged two large canoes from the Indians, made of so light a material (skins over a bamboo framework) that we should be able to carry them round any obstacle.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My sail was likewise composed of the skins of the same animal; but I made use of the youngest I could get, the older being too tough and thick; and I likewise provided myself with four paddles.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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