body
IPA: bˈɑdi
noun
- Physical frame.
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- A corpse.
- (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
- (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
- Main section.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
- (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- (architecture, of a church) nave.
- Coherent group.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- Material entity.
- Any physical object or material thing.
- (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
- (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
- (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- A surname transferred from the nickname.
- (Cambridge University slang, archaic) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
verb
- (transitive, often with forth) To give body or shape to something.
- To construct the bodywork of a car.
- (transitive) To embody.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
- (by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
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Examples of "body" in Sentences
- He studied the human body.
- Human body is not incombustible.
- Serotonin exists in the human body.
- There are somatic cells in our body.
- Most cells in the body become senescent.
- The majority of the human body cannot regenerate.
- The adult has the typical streamlined wings and body.
- The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue.
- In the human body it is controlled by the swallowing reflex.
- The cells of the caterpillar transform into the cells of a butterfly's body.
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