skeleton in English dictionary

  • skeleton

    Meanings and definitions of "skeleton"

    • (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
    • A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
    • (figuratively) A very thin person.
    • (From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge).
    • (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
    • to reduce to a skeleton; to skin
    • to minimize
    • 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.
    • noun
      A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
    • noun
      (figuratively)
      A very thin person.
    • noun
      (From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge). See Wikipedia:Skeleton (sport)
    • noun
      (computing)
      A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
    • noun
      (geometry)
      The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
    • noun
      An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See Wikipedia:Skeleton (undead)
    • noun
      (figuratively)
      The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
    • verb
      (archaic)
      to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
    • verb
      (archaic)
      to minimize
    • system that provides support to an organism
    • frame that provides support to a building
    • very thin person
    • A frame that provides support to a building or other structure.
    • white (bleached) bone
    • The structure that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
    • noun
      a compact, simple sled that lacks steering or brakes.
      In 2010, the FIBT restricted the materials with which skeleton sleds are permitted to be made; sled frames must be made of steel, the base plate, however, may be made of plastics.
    • noun
      a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"
    • noun
      something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"
    • noun
      the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
    • noun
      the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"

    Synonyms of "skeleton" in English dictionary

    skeleton in the closet, skeletal frame, minimum are the top synonyms of "skeleton" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of skeleton

    • skeleton ( plural  skeletons)
    • to skeleton ( archaic)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza skeleton, lm  liczba mnoga skeletons
    • skeleton (plural skeletons or skeleta)
    • skeleton (third-person singular simple present skeletons, present participle skeletoning, simple past and past participle skeletoned)
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