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reskin

reskin verb: to replace or repair the skin of a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc., especially so as to market the same car under different brands.

Verb

reskin (third-person singular simple present reskins, present participle reskinning, simple past and past participle reskinned)

  1. (transitive) To replace or repair the skin of a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc., especially so as to market the same car under different brands
    • A row of original, large and life-expired MoD 'wriggly tin' Nissen huts close to the Rail Live entrance haven't simply been reskinned, they have been replaced with new, modern equivalents to the original design.2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “The Rail Live story...”, in RAIL, number 984, page 36
  2. (transitive) To change the skin, or visual appearance, of an application or a video game character etc.
    • The editor can be reskinned. In other words, the color scheme and look and feel of the buttons can be changed.2007, Quentin Zervaas, Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP, page 291

Noun

reskin (plural reskins)

  1. Something that uses the exact same model as something else, but has superficial differences such as textures.
    • The result would be a reskin of an old game instead of an interesting new game.2012, Wendy Despain, 100 Principles of Game Design

Forms of reskin

Verb
third-person singular presentreskins
present participlereskinning
past participlereskinned
pastreskinned
Noun
pluralreskins

Origin of reskin

From re- + skin.

Words formed from reskin

Questions about reskin

What does reskin mean?
Reskin means to replace or repair the skin of a motor vehicle, aircraft, etc., especially so as to market the same car under different brands.
What part of speech is reskin?
Reskin can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of reskin?
The past tense of reskin is reskinned.

Words near reskin in the dictionary

  1. reskills
  2. reskim
  3. reskimmed
  4. reskimming
  5. reskims
  6. reskin
  7. reskinnable
  8. reskinned
  9. reskinning
  10. Reskinoff
  11. reskins

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