Skellington vs. Skeleton

Skellingtonnoun

A skeleton.

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.