This page has 39 definitions of body with English translations in 7 languages. Body is a noun and verb. Examples of how to use body in a sentence are shown. Also define these 56 related words and terms: physical, organism, fleshly, corporeal, spirit, soul, corpse, person, sociology, human being, torso, main, extremity, appendage, accessory, dress, content, bodysuit, programming, code, subroutine, signature, parameter, purpose, opinion, mass, organisation, company, authoritative, unified, detail, knowledge, information, object, material, viscosity, solidity, substance, agglomeration, printing, shank, type, geometry, shape, bodywork, embody, murder, utterly, defeat, video game, leotard, bod, snapsuit, onesies, calzamaglia, and 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.
The soul of a person or other creature. What moves through experience into self-definition as souls purpose. (1 of 13 spirit definitions)
Soul definition
The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and personality. Often believed to live on after the person's death. (1 of 7 soul definitions)
The study of society, human socialinteraction and the rules and processes that bind and separate people not only as individuals, but as members of associations, groups and institutions
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.]
Having a secondary, supplementary or subordinate function by accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; being additional; being connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or being contributory. Said of people and things, and, when of people, usually in a bad sense (1 of 3 accessory definitions)
A value kept constant during an experiment, equation, calculation or similar, but varied over other versions of the experiment, equation, calculation, etc. (1 of 8 parameter definitions)
Coherent group.
A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter. It is measured in kilograms in the SIsystem of measurement.
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 […]
(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.
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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. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
