S vs Skeleton - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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.
* 1883 , ,
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
(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
(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
(archaic) to minimize
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As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun skeleton is
(anatomy) the system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.As a verb skeleton is
(archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.s
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=r, next=t, image= (wikipedia s)Letter
Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}skeleton
English
{{ picdic , image= Human skeleton front arrows no labels.svg , width=285 , height=300 , labels= , detail1=Click on labels in the image , detail2= }} (wikipedia skeleton)Alternative forms
* sceletonNoun
(en-noun)- 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.