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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
- The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive.
- 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
- Lobsters, like all animals with exoskeletons, periodically shed their armor as they grow.
- skeletonized human remains
