Definizione monolingua

skeleton

skeleton (third-person singular simple present skeletons, present participle skeletoning, simple past and past participle skeletoned)

1. (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
2. (archaic) to minimize

skeleton (plural skeletons)

1. (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island,

     At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the ground.

2. A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
3. (figuratively) A very thin person.

   She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.

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). See Wikipedia:Skeleton (sport)
5. (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
6. An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See Wikipedia:Skeleton (undead)

   She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.

7. (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

   The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone.

Definizione dizionario skeleton

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

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Altri significati:

frame that provides support to a building

(figuratively) A very thin person.

(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).

to minimize

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

white (bleached) bone

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

very thin person

to reduce to a skeleton; to skin

(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.