Definition of Skeleton

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Skeleton

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.

A very thin or lean person.

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

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

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Skeleton Quotations

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.
Wilson Mizner

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Virginia Woolf

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
Henry Miller

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre Lorde

Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.
Nicholas D. Kristof

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
Ellsworth Huntington

Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.
Donald Johanson

Skeleton Translations

skeleton in Afrikaans is geraamte
skeleton in Dutch is skelet, gebeente, geraamte
skeleton in French is squelette, ossature
skeleton in Italian is scheletro
skeleton in Norwegian is skjelett
skeleton in Portuguese is esqueleto
skeleton in Spanish is esqueleto
skeleton in Swedish is benstomme, skelett

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