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Word: skeleton
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- anatomy The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- figurative 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.
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Verb:
- to minimize
- to reduce to a skeleton; to skin
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