英语词汇“skeleton”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

skel·e·ton

(skĕlĭ-tn)

a. The internal structure that protects and supports the soft organs, tissues, and other parts of a vertebrate organism, and is composed of bone and cartilage or, in certain animals, cartilage alone.

b. The hard external structure that supports, protects, or contains the body of many invertebrates, such as mollusks, crustaceans, and corals, and certain vertebrates, such as turtles.

2. A supporting structure or framework, as of a building.

3. An outline or sketch.

4. Something reduced to its basic or minimal parts.

5. One that is very thin or emaciated.

a. A sport in which a person glides down an icy track head-first lying on one's stomach on a compact, simple sled that lacks steering or brakes.

b. The sled used in such a sport.

adj.

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a skeleton.

2. Reduced to the basic or minimal parts or members: a skeleton crew.

3. Of or relating to the sport of skeleton.

Idiom:

skeleton in (one's) closet

A source of shame or disgrace, as in a family, that is kept secret.

[Greek skeleton (sōma), dried-up (body), neuter of skeletos, from skellesthai, to dry up.]

skeleton

top: human skeleton

bottom:architectural skeleton

skeleton

单词	skeleton
释义	skel·e·ton (skĕlĭ-tn) n. 1. a. The internal structure that protects and supports the soft organs, tissues, and other parts of a vertebrate organism, and is composed of bone and cartilage or, in certain animals, cartilage alone. b. The hard external structure that supports, protects, or contains the body of many invertebrates, such as mollusks, crustaceans, and corals, and certain vertebrates, such as turtles. 2. A supporting structure or framework, as of a building. 3. An outline or sketch. 4. Something reduced to its basic or minimal parts. 5. One that is very thin or emaciated. 6. a. A sport in which a person glides down an icy track head-first lying on one's stomach on a compact, simple sled that lacks steering or brakes. b. The sled used in such a sport. adj. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling a skeleton. 2. Reduced to the basic or minimal parts or members: a skeleton crew. 3. Of or relating to the sport of skeleton. *Idiom:* *skeleton in (one's) closet* A source of shame or disgrace, as in a family, that is kept secret. [Greek skeleton (sōma), dried-up (body), neuter of skeletos, from skellesthai, to dry up.] skeleton top: human skeleton bottom:architectural skeleton skeleton
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