English-Spanish translations for skeleton

esqueletoNo se puede pedir a un esqueleto que se apriete el cinturón. You cannot ask a skeleton to tighten its belt. Las redes de energía paneuropeas formarán la columna vertebral y el esqueleto del mercado. The European-wide energy networks will heal the market's spine and skeleton. Señor Presidente, «Los Estados son el esqueleto de Europa y las regiones su carne y su sangre». Mr President, 'The states are the skeleton of Europe, and the regions its flesh and blood'.
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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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