skeleton
IPA: skˈɛɫʌtʌn
noun
- (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- (figuratively) A very thin person.
- (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
- (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- (computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
- (especially attributive) Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.
- (botany) The network of veins in a leaf.
- (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
verb
- (archaic) To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.
- (archaic) To minimize.
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Examples of "skeleton" in Sentences
- Jr. 's run to gold at Salt Lake City, this year's story in skeleton is much darker.
- February 18th, 2009 when digging deeper what you find, the skeleton is best left behind
- He has been running, jumping, shooting and participating in skeleton offensive and defensive drills.
- After Jon Montgomery won a gold medal for Canada in skeleton, he walked through the streets of Whistler guzzling from a pitcher of beer.
- A popular theme for Day of the Dead, this skeleton is on display year round in Mexico's Museo Nacional de la Muerte (National Museum of Death) in Aguascalientes.
- They've shown for the first time that the skeleton is an endocrine organ that helps control our sugar metabolism and weight and, as such, is a major determinant of the development of type 2 diabetes.
- Kuhn was particularly fascinated with pigments containing forty carbon atoms in their structural backbone, especially xanthophylls, because their carbon skeleton is related to one of the structural constituents of chlorophyll.
- The vertebrates, be it remembered, possess practically the same organs as the lower forms of life, but differ from them most materially by the possession of the _internal_ skeleton, the lower forms having an _external_ or outside _skeleton_, which latter is merely a hardening of the skin.
- Time to re-roast an old chestnut, a column I wrote several years that has become fresh in my mind due to the successful completion last night of Operation Dress-the-Tree (to be followed in a few weeks, of course, by Operation Curse-the-Tree as the needle-shedding skeleton is hauled out to the alley).
- I remember Pinkney when he was painting the picture, Bryanstone being then a youth in what they call a skeleton suit (as if such a pig of a child could ever have been dressed in anything resembling a skeleton) -- I remember, I say, Mrs.B. sitting to Pinkney in a sort of Egerian costume, her boy by her side, whose head the artist turned round and directed it towards a piece of gingerbread, which he was to have at the end of the sitting.
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