skeleton

squelette

Ensemble des os ou enveloppe extérieure dure qui soutient et protège le corps d’une personne ou d’un animal.

En anglais simple : The bones or hard outer covering that support and protect a person or animal.

• The skeleton supports your body.
• They found a dinosaur skeleton in the desert.
• The museum displays several animal skeletons.

Expressions courantes : human skeleton, animal skeleton, complete skeleton

ossature, ébauche

Structure ou plan de base autour duquel on construit le reste de quelque chose.

En anglais simple : The basic structure or plan that the rest of something is built around.

• I wrote the skeleton of my essay.
• The report needs details, but its skeleton is clear.
• We kept the original skeleton of the story.

Comment l'utiliser : the skeleton of something (This outline gives us the skeleton of the report.)

Synonymes : framework, outline

Expressions courantes : skeleton of something, basic skeleton, skeleton outline

ossature, charpente

Ensemble des éléments formant une armature qui soutient un bâtiment ou une autre structure.

En anglais simple : A frame that supports a building or another structure.

• The building has a steel skeleton.
• Fire exposed the skeleton of the roof.
• Workers assembled the metal skeleton before adding walls.

Synonymes : frame, framework

Expressions courantes : steel skeleton, building skeleton, skeleton of something

squelette

Personne tellement maigre que ses os sont très visibles.

En anglais simple : A person who is so thin that their bones are very noticeable.

• He looked like a skeleton.
• After months of illness, she was a walking skeleton.
• The starving men were little more than skeletons.

Synonymes : skin and bones

Expressions courantes : walking skeleton, look a skeleton

skeleton

Sport où l’on descend une piste glacée sur une petite luge, allongé sur le ventre et la tête en avant.

En anglais simple : A sport in which people slide down an ice track on a small sled, face down and headfirst.

• She competes in skeleton.
• The skeleton event takes place on an ice track.
• He won a medal in skeleton last winter.

Expressions courantes : skeleton racing, skeleton event, skeleton sled

squelette

Composant logiciel qui transmet les appels entre un programme distant et le service chargé de les traiter.

En anglais simple : A computer program component that passes calls between a remote caller and the service that handles them.

• The skeleton receives remote calls.
• The tool generated a skeleton for the service.
• The stub sends each request to the skeleton.

Expressions courantes : server skeleton, generated skeleton, skeleton code