Body
['bɒdɪ] or ['bɑdi]
Definition
(noun.) the external structure of a vehicle; 'the body of the car was badly rusted'.
(noun.) the main mass of a thing.
(noun.) the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); 'he felt as if his whole body were on fire'.
(noun.) a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; 'they found the body in the lake'.
(noun.) the central message of a communication; 'the body of the message was short'.
(noun.) a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; 'the whole body filed out of the auditorium'; 'the student body'; 'administrative body'.
(noun.) a collection of particulars considered as a system; 'a body of law'; 'a body of doctrine'; 'a body of precedents'.
(noun.) an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; 'heavenly body'.
(verb.) invest with or as with a body; give body to.
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Definition
(n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
(n.) The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
(n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
(n.) A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
(n.) A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
(n.) A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.
(n.) Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
(n.) Amount; quantity; extent.
(n.) That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
(n.) The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
(n.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
(n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
(n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Material substance, material part (as distinguished from the spirit or life).[2]. Carcass, corpse, dead body.[3]. Visible form or frame.[4]. Trunk (as distinguished from the limbs), stem, BOLE.[5]. Bulk, main part (as distinguished from subordinate parts).[6]. Person, being, individual, mortal, creature.[7]. Company, band, party, COTERIE, society, association, corporation.[8]. System, summary, general collection.[9]. Consistency, thickness, substance.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Substance, mass, whole, substantiality, collectiveness, assemblage, collection,matter, association, organization
ANT:Spirit, soul, individual
Editor: Melinda
Definition
n. the whole frame of a man or lower animal: the main part of an animal as distinguished from the limbs: the main or middle part of anything: matter as opposed to spirit: substance or substantial quality: a mass: a person: a number of persons united by some common tie.—v.t. to give form to: to embody:—pr.p. bod′ying; pa.p. bod′ied.—adj. Bod′iless without a body: incorporeal.—adv. Bod′ily relating to the body esp. as opposed to the mind.—ns. Bod′y-col′our a term applied to paints to express their degree of consistence substance and tingeing power; Bod′y-cur′er (Shak.) a doctor; Bod′yguard a guard to protect the person esp. of the sovereign; Bod′y-pol′itic the collective body of the people in its political capacity; Bod′y serv′ant a personal attendant; Bod′y-snatch′er one who secretly disinters the bodies of the dead for the purposes of dissection.
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Examples
- Is it he who found the body? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This means that definite coordinations of activities of the eyes in seeing and of the body and head in striking are perfected in a few trials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Somewhat as a house is composed of a group of bricks, or a sand heap of grains of sand, the human body is composed of small divisions called cells. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- By the time the officer arrived, Sam had made himself so extremely popular, that the congregated gentlemen determined to see him to prison in a body. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Says Compeyson: 'Why, you fool, don't you know she's got a living body? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- For the pupil has a body, and brings it to school along with his mind. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Chemistry plays a part in every phase of life; in the arts, the industries, the household, and in the body itself, where digestion, excretion, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Apparently it carried this vast body kangaroo fashion on its tail and hind legs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The main body of the building is of the time of that highly-overrated woman, Queen Elizabeth. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Ay, but he held his sword in his left hand, and so pointed across his body with it, said the Templar. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is something which makes your body move, as the spring made the wheels go in my watch when I showed it to you. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The latter is the element that we breathe and which passes into the body, there to combine with the impurities resulting from the various life activities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Thou hast a lovely body, he said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He had to stand and look at the frozen dead body that had been Gerald. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I bent over the body, and took in my hand the edge of his cloak, less altered in appearance than the human frame it clothed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Had they not better throw these bodies to the plant men and then return to their quarters, O Mighty One? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The bodies are shipped separate from the chassis, being stood on end in one-half of the car and protected from dust by coverings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- No one could tell from the bodies of these wounded men he would leave in beds at the Palace, that they were Russians. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Can there be beautiful bodies without hearts inside? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards and places of execution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We can be sure of them only through their effect on our bodies, and by the visible work they do. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Their bodies were smaller and lighter in color, and their fingers and toes bore the rudiments of nails, which were entirely lacking among the males. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- There were bodies of constables with blue staves, twenty committee-men with blue scarfs, and a mob of voters with blue cockades. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The molecules of solid bodies cannot escape so readily as those of liquids and gases, and do not travel far. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The practical use of the invention when turned to the heavenly bodies served to confirm the truth of the discovery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- As a result of this experiment Galileo declared three laws in relation to falling bodies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The bodies of the murdered were then brought out and exposed in the street, till a hole could be made in the earth to receive and cover them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But, all the bodies agreed that they were never to wonder. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He would surely reply that medicine gives drugs and meat and drink to human bodies. Plato. The Republic.
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