skeleton

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/ˈskɛlətən/
Etymologie (Engels)

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From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek σκελετόν (skeletón), the neuter of σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκέλλω (skéllō, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to parch, wither”); compare Ancient Greek σκληρός (sklērós, “hard”).

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three-dimensional

  1. (not-comparable, usually) Existing in three dimensions.
  2. (comparable, idiomatic, not-comparable, usually) Having depth, or the illusion of depth, as well as height and width.
  3. (comparable, idiomatic, not-comparable, usually) Lifelike.

reconstruction

  1. (countable, uncountable) A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of restoring something to an earlier state.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The recreation or retelling of the (purported) events leading up to a certain outcome.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A result of linguistic reconstruction; a model representing an unattested linguistic unit: a phoneme, a morpheme or a word.

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dinosaur

  1. Any of the animals belonging to the clade Dinosauria, especially those that existed during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and are now extinct.
  2. (colloquial) Any member of the clade Dinosauria other than birds.
  3. (proscribed) Any extinct reptile, not necessarily belonging to Dinosauria, that existed between about 230 million and 65 million years ago, as well as the stem-mammal Dimetrodon.
  4. (colloquial, figuratively) Something or someone that is very old or old-fashioned, or is not willing to change and adapt.
  5. (colloquial, figuratively) Anything no longer in common use or practice.

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construction

  1. (countable, uncountable) The process of constructing.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Anything that has been constructed.
  3. (countable, uncountable) The trade of building structures.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A building, model or some other structure.
  5. (countable, uncountable) A (usually non-representational) structure, such as a collage etc.
  6. (countable, uncountable) The manner in which something is built.
  7. (countable, uncountable) A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase.
  8. (countable, uncountable) The act or result of construing the meaning of something.
  9. (countable, uncountable) The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker.
  10. (countable, uncountable) A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass.

representation

  1. (countable, uncountable) That which represents something else.
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of representing.
  3. (broadly, uncountable) The appearance(s) of a particular demographic group in a piece of media, particularly in regards to how such appearances are treated.
  4. (countable, uncountable) The lawyers and staff who argue on behalf of another in court.
  5. (countable, uncountable) The ability to elect a representative to speak on one's behalf in government; the role of this representative in government.
  6. (countable, uncountable) An action of some algebraic structure (typically a group or algebra, particularly a Lie algebra) on a vector space, such that each element acts by a linear endomorphism.
  7. (countable, uncountable) A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
  8. (countable, uncountable) A theatrical performance.
  9. (countable, uncountable) A statement; a presentation of opinion or position, or an utterance made to influence the opinions or actions of others

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