Skeleton vs Body - What's the difference?
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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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Physical frame.
# The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
# The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
# A corpse.
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#* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 463:
#* 1876 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:
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, title= Main section.
# The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
# The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
# (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
# The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
# A bodysuit.
# (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
Coherent group.
# A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
# An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
# A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
Material entity.
# Any physical object or material thing.
# (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
#* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
# (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
# An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
#* 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine , page 179:
#* 2012' March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "
(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
To give body or shape to something.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To embody.
* 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads
In archaic terms the difference between skeleton and body
is that skeleton is to minimize while body is the section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.skeleton
English
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* 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.
Synonyms
* (anatomy) ottomy (obsolete) * (type of tobogganing) skeleton tobogganing * (central core giving shape to something) backbone * (very thin person) See alsoAntonyms
* (computing) stubDerived terms
* skeletal * skeletallySee also
* bone * lugeVerb
(en verb)body
English
(wikipedia body)Noun
{{picdic, image= Human body features-nb.svg , detail1= 1= 2= 3= 4= 5= 6= 7= 8= 9= 10-14= 15-19= }}- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body , it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]
- Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body
's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
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- What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
- The boxer took a blow to the body .
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body , pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body .
- In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour [...]
World's largest extrusive '''bodyof sand?", ''Geology , volume 40, issue 5
- Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
- The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
Synonyms
* See also * See alsoDerived terms
* acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)See also
* corporal * corporealVerb
- I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.
References
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