Spicule vs Skeleton - What's the difference?
spicule | skeleton |
A sharp, needle-like piece
(biology) Any of many needle-like crystalline structures that provide skeletal support in marine invertebrates like sponges
(astronomy) A jet of matter ejected from the photosphere of the sun
A small spike of flowers
(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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As nouns the difference between spicule and skeleton
is that spicule is a sharp, needle-like piece while skeleton is 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
to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.spicule
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(wikipedia spicule)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
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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.
