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Etymology

From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek σκελετόν (skeletón), the neuter of σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκέλλω (skéllō, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”); compare Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

derived from *(s)kelh₁-✻
derived from σκελετός
borrowed from sceleton

Definitions

1
The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and…
The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
- 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
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
- She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.
3
A very thin person.
- She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.
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1. 4
  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.
2. A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
3. 6
  A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
  - In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’.
4. The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
5. A full subcategory of another category, consisting of one object from each isomorphism…
  A full subcategory of another category, consisting of one object from each isomorphism class in the original.
6. A very thin form of light-faced type.
7. A minimum or bare essentials.
8. 11
  The network of veins in a leaf.
  - However interesting the skeleton of a leaf that has been bleached by nature may be, it cannot be alleged to be beautiful in colour, and therefore it is not of much value for the purposes of household decoration.
  - Rather than abstracting the leaf from the outline of the leaf, I can begin by working from the skeleton of the leaf.
  - This is going to get rid of all the green leafy debris sticking to the skeleton of the leaf and you are going to find a really attractive fiber network of your leaf.
9. Clipping of skeleton in the closet (“a shameful secret”).
10. To reduce to a skeleton
  To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.
11. To minimize.
12. A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
13. The form of toboggan used in this sport.

The neighborhood

synonymottomy
synonymskellington
synonymskeleton
neighbor:Category:Skeleton
neighborbone

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at skeleton. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at skeleton. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at skeleton

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

Etymology

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The neighborhood

Derived

Vish — recursive loop