The meaning of Chassis

noun

The branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals, and other living organisms, especially as revealed by dissection and the separation of parts.

Usage examples:

He studied physiology and anatomy

noun

The scientific study of the structure of animals or plants, or of a particular type of animal or plant

Usage examples:

You have to know something about anatomy if you want to draw the human body well., fig. he was stud…

noun

The physical structure, including the bones, flesh, and organs, of a person or an animal.

Usage examples:

It's important to keep your body in good condition

verb

Give material form to something abstract.

Usage examples:

He bodied forth the traditional prussian remedy for all ills

noun

The metal outer shell of a vehicle.

Usage examples:

Vandals slashed tyres, scratched bodywork and pulled off windscreen wipers.

noun

The dead body of an animal.

Usage examples:

She saw the mud-covered carcass of a sheep

noun

The body of a dead animal

Usage examples:

The carcass of a deer lay near the road.

noun

A cover or shell that protects or encloses something.

Usage examples:

A waterproof casing

verb

Surround in a material or substance.

Usage examples:

The towers are of steel cased in granite

noun

A container or cover that goes around something to hold it together or protect it

Usage examples:

A metal casing enclosed the three-inch thick cable.

noun

A rigid structure that surrounds something such as a picture, door, or windowpane.

Usage examples:

His mother stood in the frame of the kitchen door, hands on her hips and a grim expression on her f…

verb

Place (a picture or photograph) in a frame.

Usage examples:

He had had the photo framed

noun

A set of criteria or stated values in relation to which measurements or judgements can be made.

Usage examples:

The observer interprets what he sees in terms of his own cultural frame of reference

noun

An essential supporting structure of a building, vehicle, or object.

Usage examples:

A conservatory in a delicate framework of iron

noun

A structure around or over which something is built

Usage examples:

The steel framework of a bridge, they’re operating within the framework of a military bureaucracy.,…

noun

A system of rules, ideas, or beliefs that is used to plan or decide something

Usage examples:

A framework for sth the future trade agenda can provide an important framework for restoring sustai…

noun

The main body of an aircraft.

Usage examples:

‘we hope there are enough remaining parts from the three recovered fuselages to produce another air…

noun

The main part of an aircraft

noun

The main body of a ship or other vessel, including the bottom, sides, and deck but not the masts, superstructure, rigging, engines, and other fittings.

Usage examples:

The main structural bulkhead supports the hull sides at the chain plates and the cabin top at the m…

verb

Hit and pierce the hull of (a ship) with a missile.

Usage examples:

The ship was being hulled and all would die

verb

Remove the hulls from (fruit, seeds, or grain).

Usage examples:

First, rinse and hull the berries

noun

The lengthwise timber or steel structure along the base of a ship, supporting the framework of the whole, in some vessels extended downwards as a ridge to increase stability.

Usage examples:

Support the keel with timber blocking to take most of the weight of the hull.

verb

(of a boat or ship) turn over on its side; capsize.

Usage examples:

It's going to take more wind to make this boat keel over

noun

A flat-bottomed boat of a kind formerly used on the tyne and wear rivers for loading ships carrying coal.

Usage examples:

The original tyne keel was clinker-built but later types were of carvel build.

noun

An internal or external framework of bone, cartilage, or other rigid material supporting or containing the body of an animal or plant.

Usage examples:

The human skeleton

noun

The frame of bones supporting a human or animal body

Usage examples:

We found a deer skeleton.

adjective

Used to describe something in its most basic form

Usage examples:

His solicitor confirmed he had faxed a skeleton argument supporting his client's application for ba…

noun

The arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.

Usage examples:

The two sentences have equivalent structures

verb

Construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to.

Usage examples:

Services must be structured so as to avoid pitfalls

noun

The arrangement or organization of parts in a system

Usage examples:

Molecular structure, [ u ] grammatical structure changes from language to language., [ c ] when the…

noun

An underlying or supporting structure.

Usage examples:

Here is a roman theatre built over barrel-vaulted substructures

noun

A firm structure that supports something built on top of it

Usage examples:

The explosion damaged the bridge, but the substructure remained intact.