dissertation vs skeleton

dissertation

noun
  • A lengthy lecture on a subject; a treatise; a discourse; a sermon. 

  • A formal exposition of a subject, especially a research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in the US and a non-doctoral degree in the UK; a thesis. 

skeleton

noun
  • A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub. 

  • The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals. 

  • The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively. 

  • A very thin person. 

  • A frame that provides support to a building or other construction. 

  • The network of veins in a leaf. 

  • A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first. 

  • A very thin form of light-faced type. 

  • Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials. 

  • An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. 

  • The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure. 

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