skeleton
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4.3
- noun
- /ˈskɛlɪtən/
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armazón
- Scavengers have torn the marble from the walls and floor, little more than the concrete skeleton of the building remains.
- integrity of the skeleton
It's the structure, it's the skeleton, if you will, of the soil.
- It's the structure, it's the skeleton, if you will, of the soil.
- Plus he has living tissue, but it's on top of his metallic skeleton.
- They are then ready to be connected to the joints of a robotic skeleton and voila, a bio hybrid robot is born.
- And the brilliant thing they did was actually create negative cavity of the skeleton.
- The skinny bill to me is a skeleton backbone.
Examples
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As a whole, Saint-Eustache is a church with a skeleton of the Gothic type, overlaid with Renaissance adornment.
Academic text (1998) -
Farther off in the distance was the growing skeleton of what would one day become the permanent Colony City.
Fiction book (2001) -
And when I got back, a fire had left just a skeleton of this building.
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It's the structure, it's the skeleton, if you will, of the soil.
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Sometimes at dusk I wandered through the skeletons of houses that were still just wood, identifying the rooms.
Fiction book (1994) -
The Mercedes caught fire, going up in a whoosh, leaving a bamboo skeleton that glowed red and collapsed.
Fiction book (2002) -
The construction crew finally revealed the skeleton of the new skyscraper, showcasing its impressive framework.
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After the fire, only the skeleton of the building remained, stripped of all its walls and roof.
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The engineer explained that the skeleton of the machine provides the necessary support for all its components.
Synonyms
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2.5
A strong structure that holds a building, vehicle, or piece of furniture
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1.4
A thing that holds up weight, like a pillar
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7.2
The parts under a building or system that hold it up
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4.0
A part that holds something and keeps it upright, like columns or a skeleton
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5.8
Inside support that gives a building or machine its shape and strength
A hidden part under a vehicle or machine that gives it strength
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
Bones of the arms, legs, and the shoulder and hip parts that attach them to the body
- Specialized
Bones that form the head, spine, and chest and protect the brain and organs inside the chest
- Specialized
Preserved bones of a reptile, often a dinosaur, that form a skeleton
- Specialized
A fern with thin yellow branches and tiny leaves that grows on trees or the ground in warm forests
How Sturdy
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word skeleton comes from an old Greek word skeletos meaning 'dried up', first used for bones, and by picture people began to call the internal frame of a building or machine its skeleton. So skeleton now means the internal support that gives shape and strength to an object.