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Skeleton

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

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Chassis 76% connected

A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.]

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Endoskeleton 76% connected

The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

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Exoskeleton 76% connected

The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos a…

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Hoop 76% connected

A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

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Minimum 76% connected

The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to maximum.

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Outrage 76% connected

To rage in excess of.

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Scandal 76% connected

Offense caused or experienced; reproach or reprobation called forth by what is regarded as wrong, criminal, heinous, or flagrant: opprobrium or disgr…

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System 76% connected

An assemblage of objects arranged in regular subordination, or after some distinct method, usually logical or scientific; a complete whole of objects…

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Building 70% connected

of Build

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Edifice 70% connected

A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehou…

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Ship 70% connected

Pay; reward.

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Frame 92% connected

To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts o…

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Altar noun · 86% connection

a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made

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Arcade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Arch noun · 86% connection

(architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it

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Area noun · 86% connection

a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

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Arena noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Balance noun · 86% connection

equality of distribution

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Balcony noun · 86% connection

a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

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Bascule noun · 86% connection

a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)

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Boarding noun · 86% connection

a structure of boards

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Body noun · 86% connection

the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"

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Bowl noun · 86% connection

a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments

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Bridge noun · 86% connection

a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.

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Catchment noun · 86% connection

a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)

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Coil noun · 86% connection

a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"

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Colonnade noun · 86% connection

a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns

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Column noun · 86% connection

a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)

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Complex noun · 86% connection

a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures

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Construction noun · 86% connection

a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair i…

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Arbor noun · 78% connection

a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park"

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Bone noun · 78% connection

One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony subs…

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Bower noun · 78% connection

a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park"

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Brain noun · 78% connection

The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in th…

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Callus noun · 78% connection

The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in co…

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Cephalostyle noun · 78% connection

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

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Chondro- unknown · 78% connection

A combining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the…

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Columella noun · 78% connection

A term applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of th…

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Cranium noun · 78% connection

The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the br…

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Epicoracoid noun · 78% connection

A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

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Fin noun · 78% connection

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and p…

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Fish noun · 78% connection

An oviparous, vertebrate animal usually having fins and a covering scales or plates. It breathes by means of gills, and lives almost e…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: bony, cartilaginous, framework, supports, soft.
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Footstalk noun · 78% connection

The stem which supports which supports the eye in decapod Crustacea; eyestalk.

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