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# skull

«skull» in Mova's school dictionary: **the hard bony frame of the head that protects the brain** — 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 (a skull, skulls)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The skull is the hard bony frame of the head that protects the brain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#m1)

2) A skull with crossed bones is a sign of danger or poison, and on old flags of pirates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, the skull is part of the skeleton; it protects the brain, eyes and ears; a baby's skull has soft spots that close as it grows. In safety lessons, helmets protect the skull and brain on bikes and scooters. The skull and crossbones on a bottle means poison: do not touch. Phrases: skull and crossbones, thick skull.

### examples

- The skull protects your brain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x1)
- Wear a helmet to protect your skull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x2)
- We saw a dinosaur skull at the museum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x3)
- A skull and crossbones on a bottle means poison. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x4)
- The pirate flag had a skull on it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x5)
- Your skull is made of several bones joined together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x6)
- The doctor looked at an X-ray of his skull. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x7)
- A baby's skull has soft spots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x8)
- So they carried the skull into the sitting-room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/skull/#x9)

### note

Countable. Rhymes with dull. Do not confuse with scull (an oar for rowing). An adult skull has about 22 bones that are joined together.

### In the corpora

- [The jaguar has the strongest bite for its size of any big cat and can crack turtle shells and caiman skulls.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/157-the-amazon-forest-floor/10/)
- [Pull it apart with tweezers and you can count the skulls of the mice and voles it ate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/302-how-owls-work-silent-wings-turning-heads-pellets-and-owl-myths/5/)
- [The skull has 22 bones: 8 around the brain and 14 in the face, joined by zigzag seams called sutures.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/357-bones-by-name-the-skull-jaw-spine-and-ribs/4/)
- [About 15,000 years ago, at Mezhyrich in Ukraine, people built round huts from mammoth jaws, skulls, tusks and long bones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/0/)
- [«I'm dead» and the skull emoji 💀 are young people's way of saying «this is hilarious».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/45-dead-a-mile-long-and-everyone-more-everyday-hyperbole/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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