English-Dutch translations for skeleton

skelet
Het is als het vaatstelsel van de mens, terwijl het spoorwegnet - met alle respect - als het skelet van de mens is en helaas aan osteoporose lijdt. The road network is like someone’s veins, while the railway network, with all due respect, is like someone’s skeleton, and unfortunately it has all the signs of osteoporosis.
geraamte
Je kunt niet van een geraamte vragen de broekriem aan te halen. You cannot ask a skeleton to tighten its belt. Mijnheer de Voorzitter, 'de staten vormen het geraamte van Europa en de regio's zijn het vlees en bloed?. Mr President, 'The states are the skeleton of Europe, and the regions its flesh and blood'. Ik begrijp best dat er na Halloween en Allerzielen wordt gesproken van een geraamte, maar dan is het nu tijd voor vlees en bloed. I understand how, on the eve of Halloween and the Day of the Dead, we can talk about a skeleton, but now we must put flesh on the bones.

The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton
A very thin person
The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure
A frame that provides support to a building or other construction
The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively
Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials
to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize
A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first

She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween
She lost so much weight while she was ill that she became a skeleton
The skeleton of the organisation is essentially the same as it was ten years ago, but many new faces have come and gone
In remote method invocation, the client helper is a ‘stub’ and the service helper is a ‘skeleton’

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