rind
A hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etcA hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.
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» Can you eat the cheese rind as well?
Kann man die Käserinde mitessen? — Yorwba
Сырную корку тоже можно есть? — marafon
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Examples
4 sentencesCan you eat the cheese rind as well?
ruСырную корку тоже можно есть? — marafon
deKann man die Käserinde mitessen? — Yorwba
We squeeze the orange and throw away the rind.
deWir pressen die Orange aus und werfen die Schale weg. — Yorwba
The freshest watermelon is discovered by knocking on its rind.
ruСамый свежий арбуз можно обнаружить, если постучать по его корке. — odexed
Meaning
4 sensesA hard, tough outer layer, particularly on food such as fruit, cheese, etc.
cheese rind; lemon rind; lime rind
Make sure you don't leave any of the rind on those lemons.
Rinde, Schwarte
кожура́kožurá, ко́ркаkórka, ко́жицаkóžica
Tree bark.
An iron support fitting used on the upper millstone of a grist mill.
параплицаparaplica
(figuratively, rare, uncountable)The gall, the crust, the insolence; often as "the immortal rind"
- the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
Origin
From Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), fromFrom Middle English rind, rinde, from Old English rind and rinde (“treebark, crust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rindā, from Proto-Germanic *rindō, *rindǭ (“crust, rind”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to come to rest, support or prop oneself”). Cognate with German Rinde (“bark, rind”). Related to English rand.
Cognate with Flemish rijne, Low German ryn.
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Forms
plural: rindsWord family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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