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UK
/skˈɛlɪtən/
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[ US /ˈskɛɫətən/ ]
[ US /ˈskɛɫətən/ ]
NOUN
- the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal
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a scandal that is kept secret
there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet -
something reduced to its minimal form
the bare skeleton of a novel
the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self -
the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
the building has a steel skeleton
How To Use skeleton In A Sentence
- The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
- There was no crust of stalagmite overlying the mud in which the human skeleton was found, and no bones of other animals in the mud with the skeleton; but just before our visit in 1860 the tusk of a bear had been met with in some mud in a lateral embranchment of the cave, in a situation precisely similar to b, Figure 1, and on a level corresponding with that of the human skeleton. The Antiquity of Man
- Lobsters, like all animals with exoskeletons, periodically shed their armor as they grow.
- The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive.
- Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt Three gretchens
- The skin is fibreglass over a thin layer of plywood, which is itself supported by a skeleton of thicker ply, stiffened by a steel structure.
- An exposed ribcage or the exo-skeleton of a Tyrinid monster are good example.
- The pathology of internal organs and skeleton in embryos was recorded.
- Snakes have hundreds of similar vertebrae in their backbones, as can be seen in the skeleton of a python embryo.
- Many dinosaur skeletons that are nearly intact have also been unearthed. Times, Sunday Times