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Word: skeleton (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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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