skull
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1.3
- noun
- /skʌl/
- Specialized
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cráneo
- The archaeologists discovered a skull that provided insights into ancient human life.
- human skull
- skull fracture
- shape of the skull
But the flesh in our skulls, it's meant to think and feel.
- But the flesh in our skulls, it's meant to think and feel.
- And there, there there's a skull and bones around that.
- You've all got green cards, but they're in your skull behind your eyeball.
- I mean, OK, he is holding a skull which is a bit weird.
- Yeah, he used to sit on a throne of skulls, very intimidating.
- So basically I had the same size skull, Same size skull.
- They started to make little skull necklaces.
- No, it's a black backed Jackal skull and this is cool.
- That means they can crush a human skull with one hand.
- I think there was a skull, maybe a pig.
Examples
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Also, the large number of bones in the skull makes for complicated and sometimes unexpected interactions.
Academic text (2012) -
Symptoms may not develop until the orbit or skull base becomes involved.
Academic text (2008) -
Well, it's the same way for the skull and the brain.
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I mean, OK, he is holding a skull which is a bit weird.
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So I usually can get to the skull if I go behind the eye.
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I carried a real skull.
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I think you understand that the Dallas skull is badly dented.
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Another student designed a model of the skull using Cubify and the 3D printer.
Academic text (2015) -
A titanium head bar was fixed to the skull with dental cement.
Academic text (2017) -
On the way out, he noted the bear skull, empty orbs staring at him darkly.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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5.7
The part of the skull that covers and protects the brain
2
9.6
The hard part of the skull that covers and protects the brain inside the head
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7.0
Part of the skull that holds and protects the brain
Idioms
Compounds
3
4.2
A symbol showing a skull above two crossed bones that warns people of poison or danger
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skull comes from an old Norse word skalli meaning 'bald' or 'bald head', because when a head has no hair you can see the hard bone beneath; that's why skull now means the bony head that protects the brain.