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▸ noun: An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
▸ noun: (figuratively) A very thin person.
▸ noun: (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
▸ noun: (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
▸ noun: (computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
▸ noun: (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
▸ noun: (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
▸ noun: (especially attributive) A minimum or bare essentials.
▸ noun: (botany) The network of veins in a leaf.
▸ verb: (archaic) To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.
▸ verb: (archaic) To minimize.
▸ noun: (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
▸ noun: (idiomatic) Clipping of skeleton in the closet (“a shameful secret”). [(US, idiomatic) A shameful secret.]
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frame,
underframe,
sceleton,
endoskeleton,
skillenton,
ossature,
splanchnoskeleton,
osseous tissue,
bone,
scleroskeleton,
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