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
- The skeleton is of the real Rao.
- The skeleton was an hallucination.
- Are all the bones in the skeleton
- I thought the skeleton was adorable
- The rarest part of the skeleton is the skull.
- Francis reveals the identity of the skeleton.
- They found the skeletons of the man and the child.
- This graph is known as the skeleton of the polyhedron.
- The problem of osteoporosis is confined to the skeleton.
- In The temple, it is irrational for the lady to keep the skeleton.