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.

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