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What does skeleton mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word skeleton? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
  2. (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
  3. (figuratively) A very thin person.
  4. A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge). See Wikipedia:Skeleton (sport)
  5. (computing) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
  6. (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
  7. An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See Wikipedia:Skeleton (undead)
  8. (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
Verb
  1. (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
  2. (archaic) to minimize
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