Skeleton vs. Skull — What's the Difference?

A skeleton is a structural frame that supports an animal body. There are several different skeletal types: the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside the body, the hydroskeleton, a flexible skeleton supported by fluid pressure, and the cytoskeleton present in the cytoplasm of all cells, including bacteria, and archaea.

The skull is a bone structure that forms the head in vertebrates. It supports the structures of the face and provides a protective cavity for the brain.

The internal structure that protects and supports the soft organs, tissues, and other parts of a vertebrate organism, and is composed of bone and cartilage or, in certain animals, cartilage alone.

A bone framework enclosing the brain of a vertebrate; the skeleton of a person's or animal's head

The hard external structure that supports, protects, or contains the body of many invertebrates, such as mollusks, crustaceans, and corals, and certain vertebrates, such as turtles.

Hit (someone) on the head

A supporting structure or framework, as of a building.

The bony or cartilaginous framework that encloses and protects the brain and sense organs of all vertebrates and of one group of nonvertebrates (the hagfishes); cranium.

An outline or sketch.

(Informal)The head, regarded as the seat of thought or intelligence

Something reduced to its basic or minimal parts.

A death's-head.

One that is very thin or emaciated.

(anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.

A sport in which a person glides down an icy track head-first lying on one's stomach on a compact, simple sled that lacks steering or brakes.

These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.

The sled used in such a sport.

(figuratively) The mind or brain.

Of, relating to, or resembling a skeleton.

A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.

Reduced to the basic or minimal parts or members

The crown of the headpiece in armour.

Of or relating to the sport of skeleton.

(Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket.

(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

Obsolete form of school

An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.

To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.

(figuratively) A very thin person.

To strike the top of (the ball).

(figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

A school, company, or shoal.

(architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.

The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.

A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.

(geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

A covering for the head; a skullcap.

(printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.

A sort of oar. See Scull.

Reduced to a minimum or bare essentials.

The bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates

(botany) The network of veins in a leaf.

A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.

(archaic) To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.

(archaic) To minimize.

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

A very thin or lean person.

The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

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.

Something reduced to its minimal form;

A scandal that is kept secret;

The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape;