skull

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
2. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.
3. (figuratively) The mind or brain.
4. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
5. The crown of the headpiece in armour.
6. (Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket.
7. (UK, obsolete, slang) The head or master of a college.

Verb

1. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
2. (transitive) To strike the top of (the ball).
3. To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.

Sinonieme

cranium

head

death’s head

skeleton

dried empty skull

bald head

death’s-head

brain

🧠

frontal bone

incrustation

noggin

pate

scull

upper part

death's head

jawbone

mesenchyme

mind

neck

furnace accretion

noodle

occiput

os

pan

cranial bone

pericranium

poll

salamander

ossa cranii

caput

skull and crossbones

☠️

skull cap

sow

top

🔝

brain pan

top of the head

dross skull

kish

brain-pan

braincase

mazard

skull bone

hearth accretion

wall accretion

bone

🦴

dome

eggshell

encrustation

forehead

flux envelope

Vertalings

crâne

💀

Schädel

💀

cranio

💀

cráneo

💀

teschio

💀

calavera

💀

schedel

💀

crânio

💀

κρανίο

caveira

💀

crani

💀

جمجمة

💀

Totenkopf

kafatası

💀

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/skʌl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: sculle

Verwante met Old English: sċealu

Verwante met Skots: scull

Verwante met Deens: skal

Verwante met Noors: skalle

Verwante met Sweeds: skalle

Verwante met Yslands: skoltur

Verwante met Sweeds: skult

Verwante met Middle Dutch: scolle

Verwante met Middle Low German: scholle

Verwante met Skots: skult

In summary

From Middle English sculle, scolle (also schulle, scholle), probably from a dialectal form of Old Norse skalli (“bald head, skull”), itself probably related to Old English sċealu (“husk”). Compare Scots scull, Danish skal (“skull”) and skalle (“bald head, skull”), Norwegian skalle, Swedish skalle and especially dialectal Swedish skulle.
Alternatively, perhaps from Old Norse skoltr, skolptr (“muzzle, snout”), akin to Icelandic skoltur (“jaw”), dialectal Swedish skult, skulle (“dome, crown of the head, skull”), Middle Dutch scolle, scholle, Middle Low German scholle, schulle (“clod, sod”), and Scots skult, skolt. Compare also Old High German sciula, skiula (“skull”).

Sinne

It forms the jaw joint by articulating with the quadrate bone of the skull .