Dictionary Definition
body
Noun
1 the entire physical structure of an organism
(especially an animal or human being); "he felt as if his whole
body were on fire" [syn: organic
structure, physical
structure]
2 body of a dead animal or person; "they found
the body in the lake" [syn: dead
body]
3 a group of persons associated by some common
tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed
out of the auditorium"
4 the body excluding the head and neck and limbs;
"they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk]
5 an individual 3-dimensional object that has
mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly
body"
6 a collection of particulars considered as a
system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of
precedents"
7 the external structure of a vehicle; "the body
of the car was badly rusted"
8 the property of holding together and retaining
its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to
bake" [syn: consistency, consistence]
9 the central message of a communication; "the
body of the message was short" v : invest with or as with a body;
give body to [syn: personify] [also: bodied]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From bodiġ, of unknown origin.Noun
- The physical
structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The fleshly or
corporeal nature of a
human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- A corpse.
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- The torso, the
main structure of a human
or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head,
tail).
- The boxer took a blow to the body.
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct
from its appendages or
accessories.
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
- The section of a dress
extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- A group of men or people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
- A unified collection
of details, knowledge or information.
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- Any physical object
or material thing.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- Substance; physical presence.
- We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
- Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours
etc.).
- The rioja, sadly, lacked body.
- The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.W
Synonyms
- See
- See
Related terms
- after body
- bodily
- body armour
- body bag
- body blow
- bodybuilder
- bodybuilding
- body cavity
- body check
- body clock
- body coat
- body conscious
- body contact
- body count
- body image
- body louse
- body mass index
- body odour
- body politic
- body shop
- body snatcher
- bodysuit
- bodywork
- out-of-body
- student body
Translations
physical structure of a human or animal
- Ainu: ネトパケ (netopake)
- Albanian: trup
- Armenian: մարմին (marmin)
- Basque: soin
- Breton: korv
- Bulgarian: тяло
- Catalan: cos
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 身體, 身体 (shēn tǐ)
- Croatian: tijelo
- Czech: tělo
- Dutch: lichaam
- Esperanto: korpo
- Finnish: ruumis, keho
- French: corps
- German: Körper
- Greek: σώμα
- Guaraní: rete, tete
- Hebrew:
- Hungarian: test
- Italian: corpo
- Japanese: (, karada)
- Korean: 몸 (mom)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: لهش
- Latin: corpus
- Lithuanian: kūnas
- Maltese: ġisem
- Old English: hræw
- Polish: ciało
- Portuguese: corpo
- Romanian: corp
- Russian: тело [télo]
- Serbian:
- Slovene: telo
- Spanish: cuerpo
- Swedish: kropp
- Telugu: శరీరము (Sareeramu), కాయము (kaayamu)
- Urdu: (jism)
fleshly or corporeal nature of a human
corpse
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 軀體, 躯体 (qū tǐ)
- Croatian: truplo, leš
- Czech: tělo
- Dutch: lijk
- German: Leiche, Leichnam
- Greek: πτώμα
- Hebrew: ,
- Hungarian: holttest
- Japanese: (, shitai)
- Korean: 주검 (jugeom), 송장 (songjang), 시신 (屍身, sisin) 시체 (屍體, siche)
- Kurdish: لهش
- Old English: līċ
- Portuguese: corpo
- Russian: труп
- Serbian:
- Slovene: truplo
- Spanish: cuerpo
torso
- Bulgarian: корпус
- Catalan: cos
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 軀幹, 躯干 (qū gàn)
- Croatian: trup, torzo
- Czech: tělo
- Dutch: corpus , lijf
- French: corpus
- German: Rumpf, Leib, Torso
- Hebrew: , (proper),
- Hungarian: törzs
- Italian: corpo
- Japanese: (, dōtai)
- Korean: 몸통 (momtong)
- Lithuanian: approxim. visuma
- Portuguese: corpo
- Russian: корпус, туловище
- Serbian:
- Slovene: trup
- Spanish: torso
- Swedish: kropp
- Telugu: మొండెము (moMDemu)
largest or most important part of anything (eg
car bodywork)
- Chinese traditional/simplified: 主要部分, 主要部分 (zhǔ yào bù fèn)
- Croatian: glavnina, središte, trup, karoserija
- Czech: tělo
- Dutch: hoofddeel, carrosserie
- German: Karosse, Karosserie, Rumpf
- Greek: αμάξωμα
- Hebrew: (specifically for vehicle)
- Hungarian: váz
- Japanese: (, hontai)
- Maltese: qafas
- Serbian: glavnina, središte
section of a dress
- Dutch: lijf
organisation, company or other authoritative
group
group having a common purpose or opinion
collection of knowledge
any physical object or material thing
substance, material presence
- Croatian: tijelo, supstancija
- Dutch: lijf,
- German: Körper
comparative viscosity, solidity or substance
code of a subroutine
- Czech: tělo
- Hungarian: törzs
- ttbc Arabic: ,
- ttbc Breton: karroñsadur , -ioù p
- ttbc Bulgarian: каросерия
- ttbc Catalan: carroserria
- ttbc French: carrosserie
- ttbc Ido: corpo
- ttbc Indonesian: tubuh, badan
- ttbc Italian: carrozzeria
- ttbc Latin: corpus
- ttbc Low Saxon: Kropp
- ttbc Serbian:
- Cyrillic:
каросерија (karoserija)
- Roman: karoserija
- Cyrillic:
каросерија (karoserija)
- ttbc Spanish: carrocería
- ttbc Swedish: kaross
- ttbc Ukrainian: тіло (tílo)
Dutch
Etymology
Finnish
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bo‧dy
- /ˈbodi/
- Homophones: bodi
Noun
- A onesie (children's garment).
Italian
Noun
body- A leotard.
Extensive Definition
With regard to living things, a body is the
integral physical material of an individual. "Body" often is used
in connection with appearance, health issues and death. The study of the workings
of the body is physiology.
Limitation
In some contexts, a superficial element of a body, such as hair may be regarded as not a part of it, even while attached. The same is true of excretable substances, such as stool, both while residing in the body and afterwards. Plants composed of more than one cell are not normally regarded as possessing a body.Variations
The body of a dead person is also called a corpse, for humans, or cadaver. The dead bodies of vertebrate animals and insects are sometimes called carcasses. The study of the structure of the body is called anatomy.Antonym
In the views emerging from the mind-body dichotomy, the body is considered in behavior and therefore considered as little valued and trivial. Many modern philosophers of mind maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body.See also
See also: regarding corpses
References
commons bodybody in Azerbaijani: بدن
body in Danish: Krop (biologi)
body in German: Körper (Biologie)
body in Spanish: Cuerpo (anatomía)
body in French: Corps (biologie)
body in Irish: Corp
body in Hebrew: גופה
body in Indonesian: Tubuh
body in Icelandic: Líkami
body in Japanese: 死体
body in Korean: 몸
body in Latin: Corpus
body in Dutch: Lichaam (biologie)
body in Norwegian: Legeme
body in Portuguese: Corpo (anatomia)
body in Albanian: Trupi
body in Simple English: Body
body in Slovenian: Telo
body in Finnish: Ruumis
body in Contenese: 屍
body in Chinese: 屍體
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Adamite, Bund, Festschrift, Rochdale
cooperative, affiliation, age group,
aggregate, alliance, amount, amplitude, an existence,
ana, anatomy, anthology, aquarium, area, array, ascender, ashes, ashram, assemblage, assembly, association, axis, back, band, basis, bastard type, batch, battalion, beard, being, belly, best part, better part,
bevel, bevy, bigness, black letter, bloc, block, bodily size, body-build,
bones, branch, breadth, brigade, budget, build, bulk, bunch, bundle, burden, cabal, cadaver, cake, caliber, cap, capital, carcass, carrion, case, cast, caste, cat, chap, character, chrestomathy, church, clan, class, clay, clique, clod, clump, cluster, coalition, coarseness, cohort, collectanea, collection, college, colony, combination, combine, committee, common market,
commonwealth,
commune, communion, community, company, compilation, complement, concrete, concreteness, concretion, confederacy, confederation, conglomerate, conglomeration, congress, consistency, consumer
cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative
society, core, corporealize, corporify, corps, corpse, corpulence, corpus, corpus delicti, coterie, council, counter, coverage, covey, creature, credit union,
crew, critter, crowbait, crowd, crux, customer, customs union,
data, dead body, dead man,
dead person, decedent,
denomination,
density, depth, descender, detachment, detail, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance through,
division, dry bones,
duck, durability, dust, earth, earthling, economic class,
economic community, em,
embalmed corpse, embody,
en, endogamous group,
entelechy, entity, essence, essentials, expanse, expansion, extended family,
extension, extent, face, faction, family, fat-faced type, fatness, federation, feet, fellow, fellowship, figure, firmness, fleet, flesh, florilegium, font, food for worms, form, frame, fraternity, free trade area,
fullness, fund, fundamental, fuselage, gang, gauge, generality, gens, girth, gist, gravamen, greatness, groove, groundling, group, grouping, groupment, guy, hand, head, heart, height, holdings, homo, hulk, hull, human, human being, in-group,
incarnate, incorporate, individual, italic, joker, junta, kinship group, knot, largeness, late lamented,
league, length, letter, library, life, ligature, living soul, logotype, lot, lower case, lump, machine, magnitude, main body, major
part, majority,
majuscule, man, mass, masses, material body, materiality, materialize, measure, measurement, meat, menagerie, minuscule, mob, moiety, monad, mortal, mortal remains, most, movement, mummification, mummy, museum, nick, node, nose, nuclear family, number, object, offshoot, one, order, organic remains, organism, organization, out-group,
outfit, pack, palpability, parcel, partnership, party, peer group, person, persona, personage, personality, personify, persuasion, phalanx, phratria, phratry, phyle, physical body, physique, pi, pica, pith, platoon, plurality, point, political machine, ponderability, posse, print, proportion, proportions, purport, quantity, quantum, radius, range, raw data, reach, reembody, regiment, reincarnate, relics, religious order, reliquiae, remains, richness, ring, roman, salon, sans serif, scale, schism, school, scope, script, sect, sectarism, segment, sense, set, settlement, shank, shape, shoulder, single, size, skeleton, small cap, small
capital, social class, society, solid, solid body, solidity, soma, somebody, someone, something, soul, soundness, spread, squad, stability, stable, stamp, staple, steadiness, stem, stiff, stock, stoutness, strength, string, sturdiness, subcaste, substance, substantiality, substantialize, substantialness,
substantiate,
substantify,
sum, tangibility, team, tellurian, tenement of clay,
terran, the dead, the
deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, the third
dimension, thickness,
thing, thrust, torso, total, totem, toughness, transmigrate, treasure, tribe, troop, troupe, trunk, type, type body, type class, type
lice, typecase,
typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, union, unit, upper case, upshot, variety, version, viscosity, volume, whole, width, wing, worldling, zoo