reskin

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English

Etymology

From re- +‎ skin.

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
    • 2023 May 31, Nigel Harris, “The Rail Live story...”, in RAIL, number 984, page 36:
      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.
  2. (computing, transitive) To change the skin, or visual appearance, of an application or a video game character etc.
    • 2007, Quentin Zervaas, Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP, page 291:
      The editor can be reskinned. In other words, the color scheme and look and feel of the buttons can be changed.

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Noun

reskin (plural reskins)

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

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