skeleton
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Is skeleton a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.Examples: "At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the ground."
2. (figuratively) A very thin person.Examples: "She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton."Synonyms: thin personfiguratively
3. (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.Examples: "The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone."Synonyms: backbonefiguratively
4. (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
5. (computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.Examples: "In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’."
6. (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
verb (English)
1. (archaic) To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.archaic
2. (archaic) To minimize.archaic
noun (English)
1. (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.Examples: "Lugers, who slide feet first and reach the highest speeds, experience some of the same forces, but seem to suffer far fewer concussion-like symptoms than bobsled and skeleton athletes do, probably because a support strap often prevents their heads from banging into the ice."Synonyms: skeleton tobogganinguncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary