Skeleton

Noun

 * 1)  The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
 * 2) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
 * 3)  A very thin person.
 * 4) (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).
 * 5)  The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

Verb

 * 1) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin
 * 2) to minimize

Adjectives for Skeleton
decaying; sheeted; fleshless; homogeneous; rickety; moldering; colossal; human; metallic; uncouth; bleached; grinning; moldy.

Verbs for Skeleton
build on—; cremate—; disinter—; embalm—; exhume—; expose—; inter—; preserve—; prop—; reduce to—; shrivel to—; uncover—; unearth—; —bears; —crumbles; —grins; —reveals; —supports; —sustains.

Thesaurus
abbreviation, abbreviature, abrege, abridgment, abstract, adumbrate, anatomy, appendicular skeleton, ashes, axial skeleton, backing, barebones, bean pole, beanstalk, bearing, block out, blueprint, body, bones, brief, broomstick, brouillon, bushing, cadaver, cadre, capsule, carcass, carrion, cartoon, case, casement, casing, chalk, chart, chassis, clay, clothes pole, compend, condensation, condensed version, configuration, conspectus, contour, copy, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, delineation, design, diagram, digest, doorframe, draft, drawing, dry bones, dust, earth, ebauche, elevation, embalmed corpse, epitome, esquisse, exoskeleton, fabric, features, figuration, figure, food for worms, frame, framework, framing, gestalt, graph, ground plan, gruel, head, house plan, hulk, ichnography, infrastructure, lanky, late lamented, lath, lattice, latticework, lineaments, lines, main features, mere shadow, mere wreck, mortal remains, mount, mounting, mummification, mummy, nervous wreck, organic remains, outline, overview, pandect, paper, pattern, picture frame, plot, precis, profile, projection, rail, rake, rattlebones, rattletrap, relics, relief, reliquiae, remains, review, rough, rubric, ruin, ruins, sash, setting, shadow, shapes, shaving, shell, shortened version, silhouette, skeletal, sketch, slat, slim, slip, soup, spindlelegs, spindleshanks, splinter, stack of bones, stiff, stilt, streak, survey, syllabus, synopsis, table, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, thumbnail sketch, topical outline, tournure, twiggy, underframe, vein, wafer, walking skeleton, window case, window frame, working drawing, wreck

Etymology
From σκελετός:, from σκελλώ:.

Synonyms

 * ottomy
 * skeleton tobogganing

Derived terms

 * skeletal
 * skeletally

Related terms

 * endoskeleton
 * exoskeleton
 * hydrostatic skeleton
 * skeleton crew
 * skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard
 * skeleton key
 * skeleton staff

Noun

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 * Indonesian: rangka
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 * Japanese: (こっかく),  (がいこつ)
 * Korean: 해골 (haegol)
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 * Latin: ossium compages
 * Latvian: skelets
 * Lithuanian: griaučiai, skeletas
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 * Malay: rangka
 * Nahuatl: miquiztetl
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 * Pashto: هډتړ
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 * Romanian: schelet
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Noun
skeleton



Noun

 * 1)  winter sport