body
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
computing
engineering
geometry
human-sciences
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
programming
publishing
sciences
social-science
sociology
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”)).
Inflected forms:
form: bodies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bodie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bodies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bodying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bodied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bodied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bodie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Physical frame.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
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.
Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others. […] “Everyone’s bodies change,” she said. “That’s life, that’s what the human existence is.”
gloss: Physical frame.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
gloss: Physical frame.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.
The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.
gloss: Physical frame.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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 […]
Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.
“Well,” I says, “I cal’late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
Cobb Belcher's downstairs. He wants to buy you a beer. Says a body who can whip his brother Dell must be a body worth knowing.
What’s a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
gloss: Physical frame.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the early modern English husband not only took control over his wife's property upon marriage, he also acquired property in her body.
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.
In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.
As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.
gloss: Main section.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: (countable) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
gloss: Main section.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The boxer took a blow to the body.
gloss: Main section.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
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.
The executives of the Motor Truck Body Company are practical men, who have had large experience, and have, from their careful study of the conditions and the needs for vehicle bodies, qualifications that insure to their patrons the best that sound engineering, skilled workmansbip and high class material can produce. The president of the concern, Frederick Proctor, is the engineer and designer, and he was for a considerable length of time in charge of the designing of truck bodies for the Packard Motor Car Company. Elmer T. Hangstefer, secretary, treasurer and general manager, had charge of the truck body accounting department of the Packard plant, and the factory and production manager, Harry Carrier, for several years built the Packard truck bodies. In designing bodies Mr. Proctor has originality and as his experience has been with the wagon and carriage trade as well, he has produced types that are practical and sightly and are especially adapted for the service required. Mr Hangstefer has established a cost system that insures to the purchaser the exact value for the job—not an approximation or an average. He had charge of cost estimating at the Packard factory and figures to exactness. The employees have all had training in power wagon factories and are regarded as expert workmen.
gloss: Main section.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
gloss: Main section.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Main section.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
gloss: Main section.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Coherent group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
gloss: Coherent group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
gloss: Coherent group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
gloss: Material entity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: All bodies are held together by internal forces.
gloss: Material entity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 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.
We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
gloss: Material entity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
"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.
gloss: Material entity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
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 […]
Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km³) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
gloss: The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a nonpareil face on an agate body
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.
gloss: A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To give body or shape to something.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.
[A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […]
The drama of the storehouse on earth has its counterpart in Heaven, and if we accept the insights of both Jacobsen and von Dechend, we can see that the myth is bodying forth a principle which will later be expressed in the Hermetic axiom, “As above, so below.” In fact, it is precisely this relationship between above and below that the myth explores.
gloss: To construct the bodywork of a car.
pos: verb
gloss: To embody.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.
gloss: To murder someone.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To murder someone.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
slang
transitive
examples: I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.
Synonyms: bod
body
bones
flesh
carcass
likam
quarrons
soma
Related words: corporal
corporeal
anatomy
physiology
visceral
Derived words: able-bodyist
a healthy body is a healthy mind
anybody
big-body
bodice
bodikin
bodiless
bodily
body and soul
body armor
body armour
body art
body bag
body blow
body-blow
bodyboard
bodyboarder
body box
body broker
body brokering
body-build
body-builder
bodybuilder
body-building
bodybuilding
body butter
bodycam
body cam
body camera
bodycare
body catch
body cavity
body cavity search
body-centered
body check
body-check
body clock
body coat
bodycolor
bodycolour
body con
body-con
body conscious
body contact
body control module
body cord
body corporate
body count
body double
body dysmorphic disorder
body English
body farm
body fascism
body fat
bodyfat
body fluid
body-focused repetitive behavior disorder
body forth
body fossil
bodyful
bodyfur
bodygasm
body gear
bodyguard
bodyhacker
bodyhacking
body hair
body heat
bodyhood
body horror
body-hugging
body hygiene kit
body image
body in black
body integrity identity disorder
body in white
bodyism
bodyjack
body jacket
body jar
body kit
body language
body leasing
bodylike
body line
body linen
body lotion
body louse
body man
body mass
body mass index
bodymaster
body matter
body mechanics
body mic
bodymind
body-mind
body modification
Bodymore
body negative
bodynet
body odor
body odour
body-ody-ody
body of Christ
body of me
body of water
body of work
bodypack
body packing
bodypaint
body paint
body-paint
body painting
body-part
body part
body piercing
body pillow
body plan
bodyplate
body politic
body politique
body-positive
body positivity
body press
body pump
body scan
bodyscape
body servant
body-shame
body-shamer
body-shaming
body shaming
body shape
body shaper
body shell
bodyshell
bodyship
body shop
body shopping
body shot
bodyside
body slam
body-slam
bodyslam
body snatcher
body-snatcher
bodysnatching
body soap
body spray
body stocking
bodystocking
body stuffing
bodystyle
bodysuit
body-surf
bodysurf
body surf
bodysurfer
bodyswap
body swerve
body tea
body temperature
body text
body throw
body-to-body massage
body type
body wall
bodywarmer
body wash
body wave
bodywear
body weight
bodyweight
bodywide
body wire
bodywork
bodyworker
body-worn
bodyworn
body-worn camera
body-worn video
body wrap
bone in one's body
catch a body
cavernous body
dog's body
dorsal body hormone
electronic body music
epithelial body
every body
free-body diagram
free body diagram
full-body
full-body day
full-body scanner
full body scanner
habit of body
Hirano body
hollow body position
human body
in a body
keep body and soul together
keep soul and body together
know where the bodies are buried
lower body day
many-body problem
mind-body
move one's body
Müllerian body
my body is ready
n-body problem
nemaline body
nobody
no body, no crime
out-of-body
out-of-body experience
out-of-the-body
out-of-the-body experience
over my dead body
rigid body dynamics
sell one's body
some-body
some body
somebody
spongious body
spongy body
three body problem
total body day
touch the body
two-body problem
unibody
upper body day
wide-body
with every bone in one's body
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