skeleton

骨格、骸骨

人や動物の体を支え、守る骨や硬い外側の殻。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： human skeleton, animal skeleton, complete skeleton

骨組み、概要

物事のほかの部分を作り上げる土台となる、基本的な構造や計画。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： the skeleton of something (This outline gives us the skeleton of the report.)

類義語： framework, outline

よく使う表現： skeleton of something, basic skeleton, skeleton outline

骨組み

建物などの構造物を支える枠組み。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： frame, framework

よく使う表現： steel skeleton, building skeleton, skeleton of something

骨と皮の人

骨がはっきり見えるほど、ひどくやせた人。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： skin and bones

よく使う表現： walking skeleton, look a skeleton

スケルトン

小さなそりにうつぶせになり、頭を先にして氷のコースを滑り降りる競技。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： skeleton racing, skeleton event, skeleton sled

スケルトン

離れたプログラムからの呼び出しを、処理するサービスに渡すソフトウェアの部品。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： server skeleton, generated skeleton, skeleton code