Word: body Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- Proto-West Germanic *bodag Old English bodiġ Middle English bodi English body From Middle English body, bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (“body, corpse, trunk, torso”) (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”), Bavarian Bottich (“body, torso, carcass; lower part of a shirt or jacket”)). Pronunciation: /ˈbɒd.iː/, [ˈbɒ.dɪi̯], /ˈbɑ.di/, [ˈbɑ.dɪi̯], [ˈbɑ.ɾɪi̯] 1. Physical frame. Labels: countable Example: I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light. Example: If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. 2. Physical frame. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace. 3. Physical frame. Labels: countable Example: Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder. Example: The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night. 4. Physical frame. Labels: countable, slang, uncountable Example: His gun had two bodies on it. Example: He caught a body and got forty years in prison. 5. Physical frame. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it […] Example: "Will ye giv a body a taste o' yer beer to thry?" sez Tom. 6. Physical frame. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: the early modern English husband not only took control over his wife's property upon marriage, he also acquired property in her body. Example: This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries. 7. Main section. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: (countable) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.] 8. Main section. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The boxer took a blow to the body. 9. Main section. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape. Example: The railless vehicles have been supplied by the Railless Electric Traction Company, of London, as contractors, to the joint specification of the general managers of the Leeds and Bradford Tramways. The bodies have all been constructed by Messrs. Hurst, Nelson and Company, of Motherwell. 10. Main section. Labels: archaic, countable, uncountable Example: Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress. 11. Main section. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. Main section. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces. 13. Main section. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. Coherent group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards. 15. Coherent group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track. 16. Coherent group. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion. 17. Material entity. Labels: countable Example: All bodies are held together by internal forces. 18. Material entity. Labels: uncountable Example: The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded. Example: We have given body to what was just a vague idea. 19. Material entity. Labels: uncountable Example: The red wine, sadly, lacked body. Example: "I’d Be Lost Without You" seems somewhat out of place from a vocal viewpoint — Lewis’s slightly reedy middle soprano is very expressive and absolutely true, but doesn’t have enough dark body to fully deal with the torchy melody. 20. Material entity. Labels: uncountable Example: Experimented with turning my hair up with cans. Rollers aren't large enough and leave a curl when you want body and just straightness. 21. Material entity. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France. Example: In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […] 22. The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated). Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a nonpareil face on an agate body Example: The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition. 23. A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone. Labels: countable, uncountable