corpus
IPA: kˈɔrpʌs
noun
- A collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic or a particular author, etc.
- (specifically, linguistics) Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.
- (uncommon) A body, a collection.
- (informal) Corpus Christi (city in Texas)
- (Cambridge University slang) Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
- (Oxford University slang) Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Examples of "corpus" in Sentences
- The term corpus here denotes a collection of documents; corpus juris,
- Chemical Eye on Cage Compounds - Habeas corpus is Latin for "You should have the body".
- Ending habeas corpus is not an infringement of rights because after all the constitution is not a suicide pact.
- We cannot better explain the signification of the term corpus juris canonici than by showing the successive meanings which were assigned to it in the past and which it usually bears at the present day.
- The only way he could support denial of habeus corpus now, when all terrorists taken into custody on U.S. soils during his administration got habeus corpus is if there are more than the official record admits.
- These concerns have particular bearing upon the Suspension Clause question in the cases now before us, for the writ of habeas corpus is itself an indispensable mechanism for monitoring the separation of powers.
- And habeas corpus is pretty tricky because its jargonistic meaning is so far removed from its literal sense, but it might reasonably be translated as пусть душу представят, I would guess without Googling, or more literally (указаем), чтобы ты представил тело.
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