Skeleton

What do we mean by skeleton?

The internal structure that protects and supports the soft organs, tissues, and other parts of a vertebrate organism, and is composed of bone and cartilage or, in certain animals, cartilage alone. noun

The hard external structure that supports, protects, or contains the body of many invertebrates, such as mollusks, crustaceans, and corals, and certain vertebrates, such as turtles. noun

A supporting structure or framework, as of a building. noun

An outline or sketch. noun

Something reduced to its basic or minimal parts. noun

One that is very thin or emaciated. noun

A sport in which a person glides down an icy track head-first lying on one's stomach on a compact, simple sled that lacks steering or brakes. noun

The sled used in such a sport. noun

Of, relating to, or resembling a skeleton. adjective

Reduced to the basic or minimal parts or members. adjective

Of or relating to the sport of skeleton. adjective

(skeleton in (one's) closet) A source of shame or disgrace, as in a family, that is kept secret. idiom

To skeletonize.

In anatomy, the dry bones of the body taken together; hence, in anatomy and zoology, some or any hard part, or the set of hard parts together, which form a support, scaffold, or framework of the body, sustaining, inclosing, or protecting soft parts or vital organs; connective tissue, especially when hard, as when fibrous, cuticular, corneous, cartilaginous, osseous, chitinous, calcareous, or silicious; an endoskeleton, exoskeleton, dermoskeleton, scleroskeleton, splanchnoskeleton, etc. (See these words.) noun

The supporting framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. noun

An outline or rough draft of any kind; specifically, the outline of a literary performance: as, the skeleton of a sermon. noun

Milit., a regiment whose numbers have become reduced by casualties, etc. noun

A very lean or much emaciated person; a mere shadow of a man. noun

The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.

A very thin person.

The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.

A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

A very thin form of light-faced type.

(attributive) Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.

Words that are spelled similarly to skeleton:
skeleton, skelton, skeletor, skeleto, skeletal, skelet, skeletons, peleton, shelton, kelton, keeton, skelett, skilton, squeleton, seeton, skeldon.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word skeleton:
vertebrae, luge, polyps, girdle, pelvis, skull, tyrannosaurus, holotype, racer, cartilage, specimen, bones, cervical, ribs, caudal, dinosaur, bony, skeletal, jaws, unearthed, pelvic, limbs, whale, articulated, bone, lacking, fossil, dorsal, specimens, jaw, turin, fossils, muscles, preserved, juvenile, coral, partial, quarry, tail, teeth, crew, neck, canyon, discovered, winter, cave, shoulder, graph, burial, olympics, recovered, formation, tissue, skin, missing, remains, display, collected, grave, warriors, genus, key, museum, displayed, ghost, found, animal, giant, complete, housed, rocks, finish, dated, legs, tower.

Words that rhyme with skeleton:
peloton, gelatin, exoskeleton, meletin, blasting gelatin, pellet in, prelate in, zealot in.

Adjectives that are often used to describe skeleton:
human, axial, facial, complete, mere, internal, appendicular, bony, entire, whole, external, cartilaginous, bare, craniofacial, postcranial, calcareous, visceral, basic, female, partial, articulated, dermal, fetal, perfect, fibrous, structural, male, hard, cranial, nasal, vertebrate, hydrostatic, solid, rigid, siliceous, fossil, branchial, coral, dry, outer, immature, peripheral, huge, thoracic, laryngeal, incomplete, wooden, concrete, cardiac, caudal, exo, horny, neanderthal, underlying, dead, molecular, gaunt, naked, adult, gigantic, bleached, osseous, mammalian, charred, mature, fragmentary, jointed, massive, intact, tiny, logical.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective skeleton:
form, construction, frame, key, structure, crew, formation, hand, crystals, man, grave, plate, keys, building, fingers, spicules, outline, ship, buildings, constitution, type, material, spicula, forms, spiculum, enemy, hands, shape, death, tower, framing, strength, chromatography, shrimp, based, cartilaginous, anatomy, map, plan, authorities, arm, structures, army, figure, closet, steel, weed, leaves, limbs, thinness, code, condition, skyscraper, fibre, wheel, framework, formula, organization, size, frames, face, muscle, pulley, plot, rattling, rearrangement, accounts, legs, rearrangements, ankyrin, appearance, chamber, ring, roof, collection, tree, commands, reports, crews, sort, towers, illnesses, coachman, iron, pier, attachments, substance, toboggans, equation.

Consonant match to skeleton:
skillet in, skylight in.

Words that sound like skeleton:
skeleton, skeletons, skelton, skilton, skeletal, skeldon, soliton, squeleton, celadon, skeleton key, skelet, skeletonize, celedon, scullion, skillion, skillet, sultan, saladin, skillets, sulton, skillman, sletten, silton, scallion, scolion, seldon, slaton, selden, salton, slayton, schooltime, scotton, slaten, scruton, scallan, salten, slighten, scrutin, scallopine, school run, slatten, scale down, skellum, schoolman, slatton, escalating, sculpting, saluting, scullin, celestin, skull session, culliton, gelatin, solution, silicon, sullivan, scolding, escalation, scalding, stilton, skin tone, ceratin, skipton, skylit, slidden, salesian, school shooting, kiloton, salita, schelling, solation, scalloping, skeffington, slot in, selectin, cellophane, scalene, saltine, scalia, kelton, salomon, celan, eschaton, salamon, salata, celandine, salian, eccleston, eagleton, celta, eggleston, scadden, salishan, achillean, caelian, ecclestone, scarlatina, celation, scarlata, school term.