Skin vs. Zest — What's the Difference?

Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation.Other animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have different developmental origin, structure and chemical composition. The adjective cutaneous means "of the skin" (from Latin cutis 'skin').

Flavor or piquancy

The thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal

Interest or excitement

The peel or outer layer of certain fruits or vegetables

The outermost part of the rind of an orange, lemon, or other citrus fruit, used as flavoring

A customized graphic user interface for an application or operating system.

Spirited enjoyment; gusto

A skinhead

To remove small pieces from (a rind from a citrus fruit) for use as a flavoring in cooking

(especially in jazz) a drum or drum head.

The outer skin of a citrus fruit, used as a flavouring or garnish.

Relating to or denoting pornographic literature or films

General vibrance of flavour.

A card game in which each player has one card which they bet will not be the first to be matched by a card dealt from the pack.

(by extension) Enthusiasm; keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

A unit into which an Aboriginal people is divided, typically on the basis of descent, each skin being associated with a totemic bird, animal, or insect.

(rare) The woody, thick skin enclosing the kernel of a walnut.

Remove the skin from (an animal or a fruit or vegetable)

(cooking) To scrape the zest from a fruit.

Take money from or swindle (someone)

To make more zesty.

(of a wound) form new skin

A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.

(of a player) take the ball past (a defender) with ease

Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.

Make a cannabis cigarette

The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut.

The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.

To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.

An animal pelt, especially the comparatively pliable pelt of a small or young animal

To give a relish or flavor to; to heighten the taste or relish of; as, to zest wine.

A usually thin, closely adhering outer layer

Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment

A thin, close-fitting, usually elastic garment, especially a shirt, worn by scuba divers and others who engage in water sports for protection against scrapes and other superficial injuries.

A tart spiciness

A container for liquids that is made of animal skin.

Add herbs or spices to

(Music) A drumhead.

One of a pair of strips of fabric or other material temporarily applied to the undersides of a pair of skis to provide traction while ascending slopes.

(Computers) A design layout for the interface of a program such as a media player or instant messaging application that a user can select and often customize in order to alter the default appearance.

(Informal) One's life or physical survival

To remove skin from

To bruise, cut, or injure the skin or surface of

To remove (an outer covering); peel off

To cover with a skin or a similar layer

(Slang) To fleece; swindle.

To become covered with skin or a similar layer

To pass with little room to spare

Of, relating to, or depicting pornography

(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.

(countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.

(countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.

A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.

An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.

Rolling paper for cigarettes.

Clipping of skinhead

(Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.

(slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.

(nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

(nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.

(aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.

A drink of whisky served hot.

A purse.

(transitive) To injure the skin of.

(transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.

(colloquial) To high five.

To apply a skin to (a computer program).

To use tricks to go past a defender.

(intransitive) To become covered with skin.

(transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.

To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

To strip of money or property; to cheat.

The external membranous integument of an animal.

The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.

The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.

To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.

To strip of money or property; to cheat.

To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.

To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

A natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch;

The tissue forming the hard outer layer (of e.g. a fruit)

An outer surface (usually thin);

Body covering of a living animal

A person's skin regarded as their life;

The rind of a fruit or vegetable

A bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the skin of an animal

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

Bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of;

Remove the bark of a tree

Strip the skin off;

Strike against an object;