This page has 41 definitions of body with English translations in 9 languages. Body is a noun and verb. Examples of how to use body in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
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.
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.
What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
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.
2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations (page 3)
In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.
2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies (page 5)
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.
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The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
The boxer took a blow to the body.
The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]
The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
(archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. [from 16th c.]
Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
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.
An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
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 […]
The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
a nonpareil face on an agate body
1992, Mary Kay Duggan, Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (page 99)
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.
(geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
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c.1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […]Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
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.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
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.
