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  • 21skeleton — [16] A skeleton is etymologically a ‘dried up’ or ‘withered’ body. The word comes via modern Latin from Greek skeletón, short for sóma skeletón ‘dried up body’. The adjective skeletós was derived from skéllein ‘dry up, wither’, and was related to …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 22form — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 type of sth/way of doing sth ADJECTIVE ▪ common ▪ Strikes are the most common form of industrial protest. ▪ different, various ▪ various forms of surveillance …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 23skeleton — I. noun Etymology: New Latin, from Greek, neuter of skeletos dried up; akin to Greek skellein to dry up, sklēros hard and perhaps to Old English sceald shallow Date: 1578 1. a usually rigid supportive or protective structure or framework of an… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 24Skeleton-Europameisterschaft 2008 — Die 14. Skeleton Europameisterschaft wurde am 18. Januar 2008 auf der olympischen Kunsteisbahn von Cesana Pariol ausgetragen. Sie wurde parallel zum fünften Rennen des Weltcups 2007/08 veranstaltet. Durch die Austragung der EM während eines… …

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  • 25form — Synonyms and related words: Berkeleianism, Hegelianism, Kantianism, MO, Masan, Neoplatonism, Platonic form, Platonic idea, Platonism, Procrustean law, SOP, absolute idealism, accumulate, acquire, act, adjustment, algorithm, allocation, allomorph …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 26skeleton — n. the rigid framework of connected bones that gives form to the body, protects and supports its soft organs and tissues, and provides attachments for muscles and a system of levers essential for locomotion. The 206 named bones of the body are… …

    The new mediacal dictionary

  • 27skeleton shrimp — noun small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed • Hypernyms: ↑amphipod • Member Holonyms: ↑Caprella, ↑genus Caprella * * * noun : an amphipod crustacean of Caprella or a related… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 28Skeleton shrimp — Shrimp Shrimp, n. [OE. shrimp; probably so named from its shriveled appearance. See {Shrimp}, v.] 1. (Zo[ o]l.) (a) Any one of numerous species of macruran Crustacea belonging to {Crangon} and various allied genera, having a slender body and long …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 29skeleton — skel·e·ton || skelɪtn n. framework of bones that supports the body of an organism; framework, support structure; very thin person or animal; something that is reduced to its most basic form; secret or shameful information adj. pertaining to a… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 30form — A model or skeleton of an instrument to be used in a judicial proceeding or legal transaction, containing the principal necessary matters, the proper technical terms or phrases and whatever else is necessary to make it formally correct, arranged… …

    Black's law dictionary