Backbone vs. Skeleton

Backbonenoun

The series of vertebrae, separated by disks, that encloses and protects the spinal cord, and runs down the middle of the back in vertebrate animals.

Backbonenoun

(figuratively) Any fundamental support, structure, or infrastructure.

Backbonenoun

(figuratively) Courage, fortitude, or strength.

Backbonenoun

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Backbonenoun

Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone.

Backbonenoun

Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.

Backbonenoun

a central cohesive source of support and stability;

Backbonenoun

fortitude and determination;

Backbonenoun

the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord;

Backbonenoun

the part of a network that connects other networks together;

Skeletonnoun

(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

Skeletonnoun

An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.

Skeletonnoun

(figuratively) A very thin person.

Skeletonnoun

(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

Skeletonnoun

(architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.

Skeletonnoun

(computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

Skeletonnoun

(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

Skeletonnoun

A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge).

Skeletonverb

(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize

Skeletonverb

(archaic) to minimize

Skeletonnoun

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

Skeletonnoun

A very thin or lean person.

Skeletonnoun

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

Skeletonadjective

Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

Skeletonnoun

something reduced to its minimal form;

Skeletonnoun

a scandal that is kept secret;

Skeletonnoun

the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

Skeletonnoun

the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;

Skeleton

A skeleton is a structural frame that supports an animal body. There are several different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body, the hydroskeleton, a flexible skeleton supported by fluid pressure, and the cytoskeleton present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including bacteria, and archaea.