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(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
(figuratively) A very thin person.
(From the sled used, which originally was a bare frame, like a skeleton.) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge). See Wikipedia:Skeleton (sport)
(computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See Wikipedia:Skeleton (undead)
(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

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.
She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton.
RMI Nomenclature: in RMI, the client helper is a 'stub' and the service helper is a 'skeleton'.
She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.
The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone.
The majority of absorbed calcium is stored in the skeleton.

Partisiipin perfekti	skeletoned	Imperfekti	skeletoned
Partisiipin preesens	skeletoning	Monikko	skeletons
Monikko	skeleta	Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	skeletons

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