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skeleton
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sk?l?t?n/
Etymology 1
From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek ???????? (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from ?????? (skéll?, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh?- (“to parch, wither”); compare Ancient Greek ??????? (skl?rós, “hard”).
Alternative forms
- sceleton (obsolete)
Noun
skeleton (plural skeletons or skeleta)
- (anatomy) 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.
- (figuratively) A very thin person.
- (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
- (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
- (computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
- (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
- (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
- (attributive) Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.
Synonyms
- (anatomy): ottomy (obsolete), skellington (nonstandard)
- (very thin person): see also Thesaurus:thin person
- (central core giving shape to something): backbone
Antonyms
- (computing): stub
Derived terms
- skeletal
- skeletally
- skelly
Related terms
Translations
Verb
skeleton (third-person singular simple present skeletons, present participle skeletoning, simple past and past participle skeletoned)
- (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
- (archaic) to minimize
See also
- bone
Etymology 2
The etymology of the term is disputed between two versions.
- From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.
- From Norwegian kjaelke (a type of ice sled) through a bad anglicization as "skele".
Noun
skeleton (uncountable)
- (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
- Synonym: skeleton tobogganing
- Coordinate terms: luge, bobsled
Translations
References
Further reading
- skeleton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- skeleton (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- skeleton (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Esperanto
Noun
skeleton
- accusative singular of skeleto
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ske.le.t??/
Noun
skeleton m (uncountable)
- skeleton (winter sport)
Derived terms
- skeletoneur
Portuguese
Noun
skeleton m (uncountable)
- skeleton (type of tobogganing)
Related terms
- esqueleto
skeleton From the web:
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structure
English
Etymology
From Middle French structure, from Latin struct?ra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st??kt??(?)/, [?st??kt??(?)]
- (US) IPA(key): /?st??kt??/
Noun
structure (countable and uncountable, plural structures)
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- Synonym: formation
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- Synonym: formation
- The overall form or organization of something.
- Synonyms: makeup, configuration; see also Thesaurus:composition
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
Derived terms
- antistructure
Translations
Verb
structure (third-person singular simple present structures, present participle structuring, simple past and past participle structured)
- (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.
Translations
Related terms
- infrastructure
- macrostructure
- microstructure
- restructure
- structural
- structuralism
- structuralist
- structured
- substructure
- superstructure
- unstructured
Further reading
- structure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
From Latin structura
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?yk.ty?/
- Rhymes: -y?
- Homophone: structures
Noun
structure f (plural structures)
- structure
- Le plain-chant est la paraphrase aérienne et mouvante de l'immobile structure des cathédrales. (Huysmans, En route, 1895)
Synonyms
- agencement
- disposition
- ordre
- organisation
Antonyms
- anarchie
- chaos
Derived terms
- infrastructure
- structural
- structuralisme
- structuraliste
- structurant
- structuration
- structurer
- déstructurer
- restructurer
- structuration
- structure de données
- structurel
- structurellement
- substructure
- superstructure
References
- “structure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Further reading
- “structure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Participle
str?ct?re
- vocative masculine singular of str?ct?rus
structure From the web:
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- what structures are found in all cells
- what structure connects the epididymis to the body
- what structures meet at the neuromuscular junction
- what structure supports the axon from within
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