Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SKULL

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Definitions of SKULL

1. These bones as a symbol for death; death's-head.
2. A crust formed on the ladle, etc. by the partial cooling of molten metal.
3. The crown of the headpiece in armour.
4. To hit in the head with a fist, a weapon, or a thrown object.
5. To drink everything that remains in a glass by upending it.
6. (anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
7. (figuratively) The mind or brain.
8. (Scotland) A shallow bow-handled basket.
9. (transitive, golf) To strike the top of (the ball).
10. Obsolete form of school ("a multitude").

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Examples of Using SKULL in a Sentence

• The infection may also be introduced through a skull fracture following a head trauma or surgical procedures.
• It is anatomically distinguished from members of the genus Canis in several aspects: its skull is convex rather than concave in profile, it lacks a third lower molar and the upper molars possess only a single cusp as opposed to between two and four.
• They have a flattened skull; upright, triangular ears; a pointed, slightly upturned snout; and a long, bushy tail ("brush").
• A Neanderthal skull was discovered in Forbes' Quarry in 1848, prior to the credited discovery in the Neander Valley.
• The character first appeared in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, to be followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles from 1992 to 1996, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008, and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in 2023.
• Ymir's skull was held by four dwarfs, Nordri, Sudri, Austri, and Vestri, who represent the four points on the compass and became the dome of heaven.
• Patients seek treatment from an otorhinolaryngologist for diseases of the ear, nose, throat, base of the skull, head, and neck.
• The central phrenological notion that measuring the contour of the skull can predict personality traits is discredited by empirical research.
• Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD, TMJD) is an umbrella term covering pain and dysfunction of the muscles of mastication (the muscles that move the jaw) and the temporomandibular joints (the joints which connect the mandible to the skull).
• Velociraptor can be distinguished from other dromaeosaurids by its long and low skull, with an upturned snout.
• Mutt Williams, Indiana Jones' son in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, played by Shia LaBeouf.
• The Chow Chow is a sturdily built dog, square in profile, with a broad skull and small, triangular, erect ears with rounded tips.
• Bearing a large bony frill, three horns on the skull, and a large, four-legged body, exhibiting convergent evolution with bovines and rhinoceroses, Triceratops is one of the most recognizable of all dinosaurs and the best-known ceratopsian.
• In mammals, it consists of the bony labyrinth, a hollow cavity in the temporal bone of the skull with a system of passages comprising two main functional parts:.
• Wu does this after learning from Xiongnu defectors that the Xiongnu had defeated and killed the king of the Yuezhi, had expelled the Yuezhi from their lands and were using their king's skull as a wine goblet.
• An anapsid is an amniote whose skull lacks one or more skull openings (fenestra, or fossae) near the temples.
• The skull crucible process was developed at the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow to manufacture cubic zirconia.
• Hagfish are the only known living animals that have a skull but no vertebral column, although they do have rudimentary vertebrae.
• Culann's hound was a pup of Celtchar's hound Dael, and he was found in the skull of Conganchnes mac Dedad along with two other pups (Celtchar and Mac da Tho's hounds); Culann's hound was speckled, while Celtchar and Mac da Tho's hounds were black and grey, respectively.
• The grandsons of Búri, the gods Odin, Vili and Vé, fashioned the Earth (elsewhere personified as a goddess, Jörð) from his flesh, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the mountains, from his hair the trees, from his brains the clouds, from his skull the heavens, and from his eyebrows the middle realm in which mankind lives, Midgard.
• They are distinctive with long wings, a long narrow tail, the slow and low flight over grasslands and skull peculiarities.
• But the hammer Mjöllnir struck Hrungnir in the middle of the head, and smashed his skull into small crumbs, and he fell forward upon Thor, so that his foot lay over Thor's neck.
• They were depicted as skeletal female figures wearing skirts often with skull and crossbones designs.
• The earliest evidence of warfare between two groups is recorded at the site of Nataruk in Turkana, Kenya, where human skeletons with major traumatic injuries to the head, neck, ribs, knees and hands, including an embedded obsidian bladelet on a skull, are evidence of inter-group conflict between groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers 10,000 years ago.
• The first record of a European coming through the area that is now Colorado County was January 20, 1687, when René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, camped along Skull Creek.

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