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Synonyms for skeleton
ˈskɛl ɪ tnskele·ton

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  1. skeletonnoun

    (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)

    Synonyms:
    skeleton tobogganing

  2. skeletonnoun

    Synonyms:
    ottomy

  3. skeletonnoun

    Synonyms:
    backbone

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 1 vote

  1. skeleton

    A sketch is a rough, suggestive presentation of anything, whether graphic or literary, commonly intended to be preliminary to a more complete or extended treatment. An outline gives only the bounding or determining lines of a figure or a scene; a sketch may give not only lines, but shading and color, but is hasty and incomplete. The lines of a sketch are seldom so full and continuous as those of an outline, being, like the shading or color, little more than indications or suggestions according to which a finished picture may be made; the artist's first representation of a sunset, the hues of which change so rapidly, must of necessity be a sketch. Draft and plan apply especially to mechanical drawing, of which outline, sketch, and drawing are also used; a plan is strictly a view from above, as of a building or machine, giving the lines of a horizontal section, originally at the level of the ground, now in a wider sense at any height; as, a plan of the cellar; a plan of the attic. A mechanical drawing is always understood to be in full detail; a draft is an incomplete or unfinished drawing; a design is such a preliminary sketch as indicates the object to be accomplished or the result to be attained, and is understood to be original. One may make a drawing of any well-known mechanism, or a drawing from another man's design; but if he says, "The design is mine," he claims it as his own invention or composition. In written composition an outline gives simply the main divisions, and in the case of a sermon is often called a skeleton; a somewhat fuller suggestion of illustration, treatment, and style is given in a sketch. A lawyer's brief is a succinct statement of the main facts involved in a case, and of the main heads of his argument on points of law, with reference to authorities cited; the brief has none of the vagueness of a sketch, being sufficiently exact and complete to form, on occasion, the basis for the decision of the court without oral argument, when the case is said to be "submitted on brief." Compare DESIGN.

    Synonyms:
    brief, design, draft, drawing, outline, picture, plan, sketch

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. skeletonnoun

    something reduced to its minimal form

    "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"

    Synonyms:
    underframe, skeletal frame, skeleton in the cupboard, frame, skeleton in the closet, systema skeletale, skeletal system

  2. skeleton, skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboardnoun

    a scandal that is kept secret

    "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"

    Synonyms:
    skeletal system, underframe, systema skeletale, skeletal frame, skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard, frame

  3. skeletal system, skeleton, frame, systema skeletalenoun

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

    Synonyms:
    skeletal system, underframe, shape, framing, figure, physical body, material body, frame, form, skeletal frame, inning, build, frame of reference, chassis, anatomy, bod, systema skeletale, skeleton in the cupboard, skeleton in the closet, soma, flesh, human body, physique

  4. skeleton, skeletal frame, frame, underframenoun

    the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape

    "the building has a steel skeleton"

    Synonyms:
    skeletal system, underframe, shape, framing, figure, physical body, material body, frame, form, skeletal frame, inning, build, frame of reference, chassis, anatomy, bod, systema skeletale, skeleton in the cupboard, skeleton in the closet, soma, flesh, human body, physique

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. skeletonnoun

    Synonyms:
    framework

  2. skeletonnoun

    Synonyms:
    sketch, outline, draught, rough draught

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "skeleton":

    skeletal, skeletor, backbone, schematic, skull

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How to use skeleton in a sentence?

  1. Courtesy Saif Malook:

    His wife is still very sick, almost like a skeleton, and she fell down and collapsed at the prison while we met with Asif, the children were weeping for their father; they are all under threat. Everyone is scared to be around them; they are a poor family as it is. It was just so sad.

  2. Alexey Navalny:

    I looked at Alexey Navalny. I'm just an awful skeleton. Last time I weighed 72kg I was probably in the 7th grade.

  3. James Rolfe:

    The first Nintendo tape cartridge I tried was Ghosts N Goblins. As soon as the game began, I was immediately ambushed by zombies. I'd jump around aimlessly, tossing javelins, but was I'm a skeleton. Dead. It was over so quick, I couldn't even mentally process what just happened.

  4. Akwasi Frimpong:

    I qualified as Ghana's first skeleton Olympian, and the first Black male skeleton athlete ever in history at the Olympic Games, both in the world as well as for Africa.

  5. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The skeleton, it’s the death: It’s in our body. (Le squelette, c'est la mort : Il est dans notre corps)


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