Angular and Skeleton

adjective

• Measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle.
  • usage: "angular momentum"
• Having angles or an angular shape.
  • synonyms: angulate

• (n.) A bone in the base of the lower jaw of many birds, reptiles, and fishes.
• (a.) Relating to an angle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.
• (a.) Fig.: Lean; lank; raw-boned; ungraceful; sharp and stiff in character; as, remarkably angular in his habits and appearance; an angular female.
• (a.) Measured by an angle; as, angular distance.

noun

• Something reduced to its minimal form.
  • usage: "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"
• A scandal that is kept secret.
  • usage: "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"
  • synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard
• The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal.
  • synonyms: skeletal system, frame, systema skeletale
• The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape.
  • usage: "the building has a steel skeleton"
  • synonyms: skeletal frame, frame, underframe

• (n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
• (a.) Consisting of or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
• (n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
• (n.) A very thin or lean person.
• (n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
• (n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.