The difference between Skin and Tail

Skin as a noun (uncountable):

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

Skin as a noun (uncountable):

The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.

Skin as a noun (countable):

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

Skin as a noun (countable):

A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.

Skin as a noun (countable, computing, graphical user interface):

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

Skin as a noun (countable, slang):

Rolling paper for cigarettes.

Skin as a noun (countable, slang):

Skin as a noun (Australia):

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

Skin as a noun (countable, video games):

An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game.

Skin as a noun (slang):

Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.

Skin as a noun:

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.

Skin as a noun (nautical):

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

Skin as a noun (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.

Skin as a noun:

A drink of whisky served hot.

Skin as a verb (transitive):

To injure the skin of.

Skin as a verb (transitive):

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

Skin as a verb (colloquial):

To high five.

Skin as a verb (transitive, computing, colloquial):

To apply a skin to (a computer program).

Skin as a verb (UK, soccer, transitive):

To use tricks to go past a defender.

Skin as a verb (intransitive):

To become covered with skin.

Skin as a verb (transitive):

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

Skin as a verb (US, slang, archaic):

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

Skin as a verb (slang, dated):

To strip of money or property; to cheat.

Tail as a noun (anatomy):

The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.

Tail as a noun:

The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.

Tail as a noun:

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

Tail as a noun:

The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.

Tail as a noun:

Specifically, the visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.

Tail as a noun:

The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.

Tail as a noun (statistics):

The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.

Tail as a noun:

One who surreptitiously follows another.

Tail as a noun (cricket):

The last four or five batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.

Tail as a noun (typography):

The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.

Tail as a noun (chiefly, in the plural):

The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.

Tail as a noun (mathematics):

All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.

Tail as a noun (now, _, colloquial, chiefly, _, US):

The buttocks or backside.

Tail as a noun (slang):

The penis of a person or animal.

Tail as a noun (slang, uncountable):

Sexual intercourse.

Tail as a noun (kayaking):

The stern; the back of the kayak.

Tail as a noun:

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

Tail as a noun:

A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

Tail as a noun (anatomy):

The distal tendon of a muscle.

Tail as a noun:

A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.

Tail as a noun (surgery):

A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.

Tail as a noun:

One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

Tail as a noun (nautical):

A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

Tail as a noun (music):

The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

Tail as a noun (mining):

A tailing.

Tail as a noun (architecture):

The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.

Tail as a noun (colloquial, dated):

A tailcoat.

Tail as a verb (transitive):

To follow and observe surreptitiously.

Tail as a verb (architecture):

To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

Tail as a verb (nautical):

To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.

Tail as a verb:

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

Tail as a verb:

To pull or draw by the tail.

Tail as an adjective (legal):

Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

Tail as a noun (legal):

Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.