noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
skeleton key
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
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Scattered around him were complete skeletons reminding him of when his country was able to produce crops and feed animals.
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The skulls and one complete skeleton in rotting clothes had leered out of magazines.
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Often we have only fragments of bones to build up a mental picture of the final complete skeleton .
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One almost complete skeleton of Crassigyrinus had previously been known from only one skull fragment.
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When it was demolished, two complete skeletons were found walled up inpart of the building.
external
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Vertebrates do it by means of a backbone and internal skeleton , arthropods achieve structural rigidity by means of a tough external skeleton or shell.
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The external skeleton has one incidental quality which has had momentous results.
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Most of their taxonomic characters are evident in the external skeleton .
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All three sections are enclosed within an external skeleton made, primarily, of chitin.
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The chitinous external skeleton seems to be particularly responsive to the demands of evolution.
human
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And indeed it was something very different - the bones of a human skeleton , a few pieces of clothing still on it.
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The moon and the star are personified, the skyscraper is a human skeleton with bones and ribs.
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The workmen were ordered to clear the fall of earth away and it wasn't long before a human skeleton was discovered.
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One has only to glance at a human skeleton to see the numerous segments of the vertebral column.
■ NOUN
argument
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The judges hearing the appeal will read the skeleton arguments prior to the hearing along with the notice of appeal and the judgment appealed.
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A skeleton argument should therefore be as succinct as possible.
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Skeleton arguments are not pleadings and, save in exceptional cases ... need not answer the skeleton arguments of the other side.
crew
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The doc pointed out how appropriate it was to have a Skull in a skeleton crew .
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Various versions were filmed on closed sets with skeleton crews and strict security.
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Without you ghost ferries would cross the Mersey manned by skeleton crews .
key
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Alexander Rokovssky carefully inserted a skeleton key , and slowly turned it.
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The Children as skeleton keys to open every door.
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Offer him a set of skeleton keys ?
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He fumbled for his skeleton keys and realised that he had not brought them with him from the car.
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These jokers will be experts with skeleton keys .
staff
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The skeleton staff were no match for Massenga and his team of ex-Security policemen.
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The Republicans and Democrats tick over with a skeleton staff and then hire specialist consultants for each campaign.
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The Automobile Association skeleton staff trio will be huddled in front of their personal computer screens relaying road conditions to drivers.
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A skeleton staff was on duty to keep the world-wide operations of Royalbion ticking over.
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There was only a skeleton staff on duty and no one took much notice of him.
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Last night a management spokeswoman said a skeleton staff was working and would produce a newspaper.
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Voice over A skeleton staff of eight is finishing off the company's orders.
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On the late shift the desk and telephone switchboard are often covered by a skeleton staff or a night porter.
steel
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For the structural engineer considering how to design a steel skeleton for the skyscraper, there were certain important implications.
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Before the steel skeleton , tall buildings were made of stone.
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Two raising gangs were working separately to construct the next two floors of the steel skeleton .
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They would stay with the building until topping out, the traditional ceremony that marks the completion of the steel skeleton .
■ VERB
contain
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Secret chambers abound within, one of which is said to contain the skeleton of the Monster of Glamis.
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The importance of the Temple Butte is that it contains fossil skeletons of primitive fish.
create
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These are created in conjunction with a skeleton layout for whatever document you wish to produce and consist of a number of tags.
find
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On the other hand, Minter had evidently found no skeleton in his cupboard, for all his efforts to do so.
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There he found the skeleton of a whale, a sperm whale, which had become a shrine for the natives.
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Ben, in his lonely walks around the island, had found the skeleton and found the treasure.
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They've found twelve skeletons , some of which date back almost two thousand years.
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Workmen on the site have been helping archaeologists to find the remaining skeletons .
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Charlie's found a skeleton in his garden.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The office building's steel skeleton rose above the skyline.
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We watched her go from a healthy girl to a skeleton in just a few months.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had watched it in early May, as the tiny breaking leaves spread a pinkish haze over the magnificent skeleton .
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Is essential for normal skeleton development in children and adolescents, and for maintaining high bone density in young adults.
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It leaves a fully intact and unmodified skeleton at its place of death.
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One of the skeletons has an Amulet of Coal about its neck.
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The plate showed the clear outline of a skeleton !
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The skulls and one complete skeleton in rotting clothes had leered out of magazines.
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Today he is making skeletons for Halloween.
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Unlike caffeine, these molecules have only two methyl groups attached to their xanthine skeleton .