What is the difference between skeleton and coral?
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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.
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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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(uncountable) A hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.
(countable) A colony of marine polyps.
(countable) A somewhat yellowish pink colour, the colour of red coral.
The ovaries of a cooked lobster; so called from their colour.
(historical) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything.
Made of coral.
Having the yellowish pink colour of coral.
As nouns the difference between skeleton and coral
is that 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 while coral is (uncountable) a hard substance made of the limestone skeletons of marine polyps.As a verb skeleton
is (archaic) to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.As a adjective coral is
made of coral.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.
