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My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.
Charlie Wilson

Meaning of "sharkskin" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHARKSKIN

sharkskin  [ˈʃɑːkˌskɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHARKSKIN

noun
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verb
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sharkskin is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHARKSKIN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

sharkskin

Sharkskin

Sharkskin is a smooth worsted fabric with a soft texture and a two-toned woven appearance. Sharkskin fabric's lightweight and wrinkle-free properties make it ideal for curtains, tablecloths and napkins. Sharkskin fabric is popular for both men’s and women’s worsted suits, light winter jackets and coats. Sharkskin is commonly used as a liner in diving suits and wetsuits. Typically, sharkskin fabric is made with the use of rayon or acetate or as a blend of the two, and its two-toned woven appearance is achieved by basketweaving, thereby creating a pattern where the colored threads run diagonal to the white fibers. Because both fabric options already have a relatively smooth texture, the combination results in the finish for which sharkskin fabric is known.

Definition of sharkskin in the English dictionary

The definition of sharkskin in the dictionary is a smooth glossy fabric of acetate rayon, used for sportswear, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHARKSKIN


bearskin
ˈbɛəˌskɪn
buckskin
ˈbʌkˌskɪn
calfskin
ˈkɑːfˌskɪn
cleanskin
ˈkliːnˌskɪn
coonskin
ˈkuːnˌskɪn
cowskin
ˈkaʊˌskɪn
doeskin
ˈdəʊˌskɪn
foreskin
ˈfɔːˌskɪn
kidskin
ˈkɪdˌskɪn
lambskin
ˈlæmˌskɪn
leopardskin
ˈlɛpədˌskɪn
oilskin
ˈɔɪlˌskɪn
pigskin
ˈpɪɡˌskɪn
sealskin
ˈsiːlˌskɪn
sheepskin
ˈʃiːpˌskɪn
slinkskin
ˈslɪŋkˌskɪn
snakeskin
ˈsneɪkˌskɪn
thickskin
ˈθɪkˌskɪn
wineskin
ˈwaɪnˌskɪn
wolfskin
ˈwʊlfˌskɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHARKSKIN

shark
shark alarm
shark bell
shark biscuit
shark finning
shark mesh
shark net
shark patrol
shark repellents
shark siren
shark watcher
shark-infested
sharker
sharklike
sharksucker
sharny
Sharon
sharon fruit
sharp
sharp practice

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHARKSKIN

banana skin
buskin
combination skin
deerskin
gaskin
joskin
moleskin
onionskin
pine siskin
ponyskin
redskin
Rumpelstiltskin
Ruskin
scarfskin
siskin
skin
stressed skin
stressed-skin
thick skin
thin skin

Synonyms and antonyms of sharkskin in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sharkskin» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHARKSKIN

Find out the translation of sharkskin to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sharkskin from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sharkskin» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鲨鱼皮
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

piel de tiburón
570 millions of speakers

English

sharkskin
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग्राह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سمك القرش
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шагрень
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sharkskin
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হাঙরের চামড়া
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

galuchat
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kulit shark
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Haifischhaut
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シャークスキン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

상어
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sharkskin
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

da cá nhám
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sharkskin
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शार्कस्किन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

köpekbalığı derisi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

pelle di squalo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rekina
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шагрень
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

rechin
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sharkskin
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

haai
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hajskinn
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shark
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sharkskin

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHARKSKIN»

The term «sharkskin» is normally little used and occupies the 110.263 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHARKSKIN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «sharkskin» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «sharkskin» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sharkskin

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2 QUOTES WITH «SHARKSKIN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word sharkskin.
1
Paul Weller
I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.
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Charlie Wilson
My father's nephew was the blues musician, Lowell Fulson. Every time he came around, he had a pretty car, a beautiful woman and a slick sharkskin suit. Believe it or not, that's how I decided I wanted to get into music.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHARKSKIN»

Discover the use of sharkskin in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sharkskin and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
Lucette Lagnado's father, Leon, is a successful Egyptian businessman and boulevardier who, dressed in his signature white sharkskin suit, makes deals and trades at Shepherd's Hotel and at the dark bar of the Nile Hilton.
Lucette Lagnado, 2009
2
Night Is a Sharkskin Drum
Haunani-Kay Trask. Night Is a Sharkskin Drum Night is a sharkskin drum sounding our bodies black and gold. All is aflame the uplands a shush of wind. From Halema'uma'u our fiery Akua comes: E, Pele e, E, Pele e, E, Pele e. Hi'iaka  ...
Haunani-Kay Trask, 2002
3
Polymer Technology Dictionary
In turn, processes based on extrusion and injection moulding are the most common. sharkskin Extrudate distortion: an extrusion defect. A greater problem in industrial extrusion than melt fracture. The distortion consists of transverse ridges and ...
Tony Whelan, 1994
4
Rheology: Concepts, Methods, and Applications
Stability of stream along the whole channel, in spite of the appearance of sharkskin (related to the channel exit), permits us to measure apparent viscosity in the range of stresses corresponding to instability. Sometimes the origin of periodic ...
Aleksandr I͡Akovlevich Malkin, Alexander Ya Malkin, Avraam I. Isayev, 2006
5
Handbook of Plasticizers
These include melt flow instability (melt fracture or sharkskin) and incomplete melting. Figure 14.15 shows the result of melt flow instability. Polymer, composition, and conditions under which it is being processed affect melt flow stability.
George Wypych, 2004
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Interfacial Transport Phenomena
[591] observed that coating only the entrance region of a die, leaving the land and the exit region uncoated, resulted in the suppression of sharkskin. They speculated that the polymer melt possibly picked up coating material from the die  ...
John C. Slattery, Leonard Sagis, Eun-Suok Oh, 2007
7
Plastics: Surface and Finish
sharkskin is inversely proportional to the radius of the die — in other words, it is much lower with dies of larger diameter: this means in turn that with small dies ( such as are used in typical laboratory rheometers) melt fracture may occur at rates ...
W. G. Simpson, 1995
8
SPE/ANTEC 2000 Proceedings
In all cases the tears/ridges were most severe at the sheet edges. The phenomenon of extrudate tearing appears to be similar to sharkskin. However, the amplitude of the surface defect is several orders of magnitude larger than the sharkskin ...
Spe, 2000
9
Multilayer Flexible Packaging: Technology and Applications ...
The term sharkskin is used when an extrudate loses surface gloss, also sometimes termed surface mattness. The surface usually exhibits a repetitious wavy or ridged pattern perpendicular to the flow direction. It occurs at a critical stress level ...
John R. Wagner, Jr., 2009
10
Polymers in Confined Environments
Along with the term “melt fracture” for bamboo-like distortion, the sharkskin is often called “surface melt fracture” [10b]. During a constant speed extrusion in the oscillating flow regime, one may actually observe all three types of distortions ...
Steve Granick, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHARKSKIN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term sharkskin is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Newest Toy for China's Rich Is the SUV Lined in Sharkskin
The Prombron Black Shark, a bespoke luxury vehicle from Riga, Latvia-based Dartz Motorz Co., has armor-plating, crowd-suppression lasers, and ... «Bloomberg, Nov 14»
2
Bryce Harper's wedding will include Bryce Harper-designed …
So I did some investigative reporting on this, and it turns out that sharkskin fabric has no real connection to sharks, except that it's sometimes used as the lining in ... «Washington Post, Oct 14»
3
Bryce Harper designed his own sharkskin tuxedos for his wedding
For reference, a sharkskin suit offered by the Men's Wearhouse: sharkskin suit. That fabric in navy, with some cognac shoes? Ooooo-weeeeeee, now THAT'S a ... «SB Nation, Oct 14»
4
Repelling germs with 'sharkskin'
Surfaces with a microscopic pattern of bumps that resemble sharkskin can even ward off nasty “superbugs,” a new study finds. These disease-causing bacteria ... «Science News for Students, Oct 14»
5
How sharkskin could improve your flight
In a little over a 100 years, the aviation industry has made staggering progress, from the Wright Brothers flight in 1903 to connecting countries via trade and ... «CNBC.com, Jun 14»
6
ScienceShot: Swimming With Sharkskin
Sharkskin is as rough as high grain sandpaper thanks to millions of small toothlike scales called denticles. Grooves along these denticles smooth the flow of ... «Science News, May 14»
7
biotech startup fights germs with sharks
If the patterns found in sharkskin actually work in the human medical world, the breakthrough could be big, says Steve Brozak, who tracks the medical device ... «CNNMoney, May 13»
8
How shark skin makes aeroplanes go faster: WHAT HAS NATURE …
Sharkskin technology, used in Olympic swimmers' costumes to make them go faster, has been applied to aircraft paint to decrease air resistance and cut fuel use ... «Daily Mail, Jan 13»
9
Swimsuits that turn athletes into barracudas
The sharkskin has been retired. The swim bladder, too. For London's Olympic swimmers, the watchword is more “barracuda”. Swimsuit makers have long sought ... «reachforthewall.com, Jul 12»
10
German boffins develop sharkskin paint for ships, planes
Remorseless German boffins have developed a new type of paint which effectively coats ships, planes and wind turbines in sharkskin, reducing drag and saving ... «Register, May 10»

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