skeleton vs skyline

skeleton

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

skyline

noun
  • The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky. 

  • A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside. 

  • The line at which the earth and sky meet. 

  • A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers. 

verb
  • To filter by means of the skyline operator. 

  • To outline something against the sky. 

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