skeletons
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Definitions ofskeletons
- 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.
Example: "She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween."
- A very thin person.
Example: "She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton."
- The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
Example: "The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone."
- A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
Example: "In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’."
- 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.
- To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
- To minimize
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