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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skull
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fractured skull/jaw/rib etc
▪ She suffered a fractured skull in the accident.
penetrate...skull
▪ What could I say that would penetrate his thick skull?
skull and crossbones
skull cap
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fractured
▪ Mr Healy died later in a Dublin hospital from bleed of the brain and a fractured skull.
▪ Pathologist Mustansir Nurbhai said Mr Thompson died of extensive cerebral haemorrhage due to a fractured skull.
▪ I suspect she has a fractured skull and her cheekbone is also broken.
▪ He is thought to have a fractured skull and is drifting in and out of consciousness.
▪ He had emergency surgery on his fractured skull but died 12 hours later from brain injuries.
▪ He suffered brain damage caused by a fractured skull and died later in Middlesbrough General hospital.
human
▪ There are few exceptions where human skulls have been found in wells and which could suggest violence at a later period.
▪ Moses has seen visions that no human skull could hold; hence, his budding, fragile horns.
▪ A threadbare rug covered the stone of the floor, and a human skull grinned to itself in the corner.
▪ There was also a stuffed fox and a human skull.
▪ The device is so sensitive it can pin point a human skull buried three metres underground.
▪ Above the altar, however, in place of the religious painting in Dubois's house, was a chillingly small human skull.
▪ Those rows of human skulls may well be evidence of that brutalising process.
▪ One whole shelf was devoted to the human skull.
thick
▪ Damn his thick skull: she should have splashed his brains across the wall.
▪ Let him do six months or a year, to get it through his thick skull that he done wrong.
▪ Orcs have large heads with huge jaws but tiny foreheads behind which lurk a thick skull and not very much brain.
▪ Neither you nor they seem to be able to get this obvious point through your thick skulls.
▪ In fact Pachycephalosaurus had a 10-inch thick skull, and probably used it as a battering ram in ritual contests.
▪ Maybe that had even penetrated his thick skull.
▪ She couldn't get it into her thick skull that being gay just happens.
▪ You'd better get that through your thick skull!
■ NOUN
cap
▪ His close-cropped hair was hidden under a black velvet skull cap.
▪ It is a Walkman-sized device wired to a skull cap that monitors brain waves.
▪ The boys had to be coaxed into blazers and skull caps.
▪ The pale woman, bosom exposed, is entwined with a dark man wearing a sullen expression and a skull cap.
▪ I recognized the neat plastic skull cap.
fracture
▪ Depressed skull fracture, uneven pupils, ragged reflexes - and more fractures than I care to think about.
▪ Peter Vanezis, a pathologist, told the hearing that the fatal injury was brain haemorrhaging caused by a 15-centimetre skull fracture.
▪ He also agreed he'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose.
▪ The pale, badly bruised face and thin trickle of blood from one ear, suggested a skull fracture too.
■ VERB
break
▪ This enabled her to calculate the force that its jaws would need to break the skull of a living animal.
▪ Both legs were broken, my skull was fractured, the radio was demolished.
crack
▪ You could crack your skull on that intractable stone, or it could scoop out spoonfuls of flesh.
▪ Donlan suffered a cracked skull and his nasal septum was pushed out of place.
▪ He has also cracked his skull and still carries the scar.
▪ If he had smiled a moment sooner Hicks would have cracked his skull.
▪ John Charlton fell heavily, cracking his skull on a kerbstone.
▪ I cracked his skull with a club, and they say it shook his brain loose.
▪ Unfortunately, leaping from my seat in the dugout, I cracked my skull on its roof and the world turned black.
crush
▪ Mowbray's body crashed against the earth, his brains spattering as the sharp, icy cobbles crushed his skull.
▪ He not only kills her, he crushes her skull and splits her body like a shellfish.
▪ It's so tight it would crush his skull.
▪ The superman testing himself with an ax, crushing the skulls of old women.
▪ He had to summon all his willpower to pass under a bridge because he would experience a crushing pressure on the skull.
smash
▪ A few feet away, a baseball bat crushed a schoolteacher's head, smashed his skull into a pulpy mess.
▪ They smashed its skull ... and then laid it back where they found it.
suffer
▪ He broke both legs, his jaw, nose, hip and wrist and suffered a fractured skull.
▪ Donlan suffered a cracked skull and his nasal septum was pushed out of place.
▪ He suffered a fractured skull, fractured jaw and cuts to his head and body.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Firstly, it is reflected and given direction by the cut-away skull bone, acting as a parabolic reflector.
▪ He cuts up bleached gourds to be the skulls.
▪ He said post mortems showed Mrs Garvey had died from head injuries, including multiple fractures to the skull.
▪ His bony skull and his sharp beak jutted out of the robe at such a low angle he looked like a buzzard.
▪ The skull smashed, apparently by a heavy mallet which Lorrimer had been examining.
▪ The superman testing himself with an ax, crushing the skulls of old women.
▪ They are classified according to the number of openings in the skull.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skull

Skull \Skull\, n. [See School a multitude.] A school, company, or shoal. [Obs.]

A knavish skull of boys and girls did pelt at him.
--Warner.

These fishes enter in great flotes and skulls.
--Holland.

Skull

Skull \Skull\, n. [OE. skulle, sculle, scolle; akin to Scot. skull, skoll, a bowl, Sw. skalle skull, skal a shell, and E. scale; cf. G. hirnschale, Dan. hierneskal. Cf. Scale of a balance.]

  1. (Anat.) 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.

    Note: In many fishes the skull is almost wholly cartilaginous but in the higher vertebrates it is more or less completely ossified, several bones are developed in the face, and the cranium is made up, wholly or partially, of bony plates arranged in three segments, the frontal, parietal, and occipital, and usually closely united in the adult.

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

    Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn.
    --Cowper.

  3. A covering for the head; a skullcap. [Obs. & R.]

    Let me put on my skull first.
    --Beau. & Fl.

  4. A sort of oar. See Scull.

    Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death. See Crossbones.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skull

"bony framework of the head," c.1200, probably from Old Norse skalli "a bald head, skull," a general Scandinavian word (compare Swedish skulle, Norwegian skult), probably related to Old English scealu "husk" (see shell (n.)). But early prominence in southwestern texts suggests rather origin from a Dutch or Low German cognate (such as Dutch schol "turf, piece of ice," but the sense of "head bone framework" is wanting). Derivation from Old French escuelle seems unlikely on grounds of sound and sense. Old English words for skull include heafod-bolla.

Wiktionary
skull

Etymology 1 alt. 1 (context anatomy English) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; the cranium. 2 A symbol for death; death's-head n. 1 (context anatomy English) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; the cranium. 2 A symbol for death; death's-head vb. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object. Etymology 2

n. (obsolete form of school lang=en a multitude)

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WordNet
skull

n. the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates

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Wikipedia
Skull

The skull is a bony structure that forms the head of the skeleton in most vertebrates. It supports the structures of the face and provides a protective cavity for the brain. The skull is composed of two parts: the cranium and the mandible. In the human these two parts are the neurocranium and the viscerocranium or facial skeleton that includes the mandible as its largest bone. The skull forms the anterior most portion of the skeleton and is a product of cephalisation—housing the brain, and several sensory structures such as the eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. In the human these sensory structures are part of the facial skeleton.

Functions of the skull include protection of the brain, fixing the distance between the eyes to allow stereoscopic vision, and fixing the position of the ears to enable sound localisation of the direction and distance of sounds. In some animals such as horned ungulates, the skull also has a defensive function by providing the mount (on the frontal bone) for the horns.

The English word "skull" is probably derived from Old Norse "skalli" meaning bald, while the Latin word cranium comes from the Greek root κρανίον (kranion).

The skull is made up of a number of fused flat bones, and contains many foramina and processes, and several cavities or sinuses.

Skull (music)

In music, a skull is a wooden percussion instrument similar to a wood block or temple block.

Category:Percussion vessels

SKULL (DC Comics)

The SKULL group is a fictional DC Comics criminal organization, introduced in 1976's Superman issue #301. They were created by Gerry Conway and Curt Swan.

Skull (comics)

Skull, in comics, may refer to:

  • Skull Comics, an underground comic published by Last Gasp Funnies
  • Skull the Slayer, a Marvel Comics character
  • SKULL (DC Comics), a DC Comics supervillain group
  • Old Skull (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Red Skull, a Marvel Comics character
Skull (song)

"Skull" is a song by Sebadoh from their 1994 album Bakesale. It was released as a CD single, and a 7" vinyl record.

A music video was made for the song.

It reached number 96 on the UK Singles chart.

Skull (album)

Skull is the fourth album by the British thrash metal band Evile. It was released on 27 May 2013 in Europe on Earache Records and in North America via Century Media/Earache Records. It is the last to feature lead guitarist Ol Drake.

Skull (disambiguation)

The skull is the bony structure in the head of a craniate.

Skull' or Skulls may refer to:

  • SKULL (DC Comics), a villainous organization in the DC Comics universe
  • Skull (asteroid), celestial object 2015 TB145 that passed earth on 2015-10-31
  • SkullCandyX, an Electric Rock band
  • Skull (music), a percussion instrument
  • Skull (singer), a Korean reggae singer
  • Human skull symbolism
  • One of the two characters Bulk and Skull, in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
  • Harris Brothers, an American professional wrestling duo, also known as Skull and 8-Ball
  • The human skull
  • The Skull (band), a heavy metal band featuring three former members of the doom metal band Trouble
  • The Skull (album), a music album by Trouble
  • "The Skull" (short story), a short story by Philip K. Dick
  • The Skull, a 1965 British horror film directed by Freddie Francis
  • Skulls (band), a rock band from Bradford, England
  • The Skulls (Canadian band), an early Vancouver punk band featuring future members of D.O.A. and The Subhumans
  • The Skulls (American band), a punk rock band from Los Angeles
  • The Skulls (film), a feature-length film by Rob Cohen about a fictional secret society based on the Skull and Bones Society
  • The Skull and Bones Society, a secretive organization based at Yale University
  • Phi Kappa Sigma, an international college fraternity whose members are known as Skulls
  • Skulls Unlimited International, a commercial supplier of osteological specimens located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Skull Fork, a stream in Ohio
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Usage examples of "skull".

Honorius the afrit leaped upon the bonnet of the car, femurs akimbo, hands on hip bones, skull cocked at a jaunty angle.

More locks, more tools, rough chunks of metal and wood, and a number of devices whose uses Alec could not guess were mixed indiscriminately among masks, carvings, musical instruments of all descriptions, animal skulls, dried plants, fine pottery, glittering crystals-there was no rhyme or reason apparent in the arrangement.

This is quite a bit more recent than the Early Pleistocene date originally ascribed to the Piltdown fossils, but it is still anomalously old for a skull of the fully human type in England.

One woman gets visibly queasy when I describe punched-out areas of skull and an eyeball that was virtually avulsed, or hanging out of the socket.

They must have done this quite often, Baas, since there are such a lot of their skulls down there, many of them quite black with age and turned to stone.

I made my way to the poor child, who was one of the dirtiest little unfortunates I ever saw, and found him very hot and frightened and crying loudly, fixed by the neck between two iron railings, while a milkman and a beadle, with the kindest intentions possible, were endeavouring to drag him back by the legs, under a general impression that his skull was compressible by those means.

Some Angels represent every rival Outlaw biker hit with a tattoo of a skull black eyes for a man, red eyes for a woman.

We use it because this enables us to communicate with the biochip without using an actual wire through the skull into the brain.

Radhakrishnan had occupied himself with implanting the biochip, a lesser surgeon - more of a technician, really - had drilled a few holes through the disembodied chunk of skull and implanted a plastic connector.

Between the dim wall lamps, fed from the biogas chambers, skulls of phagors projected from the walls.

Coelurosaurs were small, bipedal meat eaters with narrow skulls and large eyes, long arms with grasping hands, and slender hind legs.

These bipedal dinosaurs had very short forelimbs, but their unique feature was the unusual thickness of their skull roofs, which in several Late Cretaceous forms are fused into a single massive element forming a high dome.

We other hunters wore the hunting gear of woodcraft, namely, skull caps of deer hide, surmounted by the feathers of the eagle, the heron, or the bittern, while here and there was a cap with the wing of the wild goose across the front.

And all saw the flag that suddenly broke forth from the masthead-a black flag, with white skull and crossbones gleaming in the sun.

Been blinder than one of those varnished skulls some tough-stomached people use for paper-weights.