skeleton
- Noun. (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- Noun. A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- Noun. (figuratively) A very thin person.
- Noun. (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). See Wikipedia:Skeleton (sport).
- Noun. (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- Noun. An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See Wikipedia:Skeleton (undead).
- Noun. (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
- Verb. (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.
- Verb. (archaic) to minimize.
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