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# bones

«bones» in Mova's school dictionary: **The hard white parts inside your body that make your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (plural of bone: a bone, bones); verb (bone — to take bones out of fish or meat)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The hard white parts inside your body that make your skeleton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#m1)

2) Pieces of these from animals, for example in meat or fish, or given to a dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#m2)

3) In phrases: the main parts or outline (the bare bones of a story). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science: an adult has 206 bones, a baby has about 300 that join together; bones support the body, protect organs (the skull protects the brain, ribs protect the heart and lungs) and work with muscles to move; calcium from milk and exercise keep bones strong. In first aid: a broken bone needs a doctor, keep it still. Phrases: broken bones, skull and bones, chicken bones, bone dry, bare bones, funny bone, feel it in my bones.

### examples

- Your bones make up your skeleton. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x1)
- The skull is made of bones that protect the brain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x2)
- Milk and cheese help keep your bones strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x3)
- She broke two bones in her arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x4)
- Our dog loves chewing bones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x5)
- Careful, there are small bones in the fish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x6)
- Dinosaur bones are in the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x7)
- Babies are born with more bones than adults. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x8)
- Give me black bones to eat! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/#x9)

### note

Singular: bone (one bone). Say «bonz». Dogs should not be given cooked chicken bones — they can splinter. Your «funny bone» is really a nerve in your elbow, not a bone. In maths: «206 bones in an adult» is a common fact.

### In the corpora

- [Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/12/)
- [Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/33-birds-feathers-wings-eggs-and-flight/6/)
- [Smooth cartilage and a slippery fluid let the ends of bones glide in a joint.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/64-cells-bones-and-muscles/14/)
- [There is no real elephant graveyard; elephants die wherever they are, though bones may collect near water where weak old elephants stayed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/124-the-lion-king-real-lions/13/)
- [The largest fliers ever, pterosaurs like Quetzalcoatlus, had wings about 10 metres across but were light, with hollow bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/146-shrek-s-dragon-real-dragons-and-lizards/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bones» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bones/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.