Dictionary entry

A skeleton in the cupboard

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Definition

skeleton /'skelÇtn/ n ၁။ အ႐ိုးစု။ အ႐ိုးပေဒသာ။ The police have discovered a human skeleton. ❍ The report described those who survived prison as ‘walking skeletons’ (ie very thin because of hunger, illness, etc). ၂။ [usu sing ] (က) (အေဆာက္အအံု) ေအာက္ခံေဘာင္။ a skeleton of girders. (ခ) အေျခခံေကာက္ေၾကာင္း။ ပံုၾကမ္း။ မာတိကာ မူၾကမ္း။ the bare skeleton of a theory/an agreement. ၃။ ဝန္ေဆာင္ႏိုင္ကာမတၱဦးေရ။ a skeleton crew/staff ❍ We only have a skeleton bus service on public holidays. ❏ a skeleton in the cupboard [ IDM ] (တစ္စံုတစ္ေယာက္ ကို ထိခိုက္ႏိုင္သည့္) အိမ္တြင္းကိစၥ အ႐ႈပ္ေတာ္ပံု။ ❏ skeleton key n ေသာ့ခေလာက္ ၄-၅ မ်ဳိးဖြင့္ႏိုင္သည့္ ေသာ့။ ဘံုေသာ့။ ေသာ့မင္း။

Examples

  1. A dinosaur skeleton
  2. He dug up some bones from a human skeleton.
  3. A skeleton argument