body

See also: Body

body - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbɒdi/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈbɑdi/, [ˈbɑɾi]
  • Hyphenation: bod‧y
  • Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)

  1. Physical frame.
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. A corpse.
      • Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
    4. (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person.
      • What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
    5. (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
  2. Main section.
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. (archaic) 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.
    4. The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
    5. A bodysuit.
    6. (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
      • In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
  3. Coherent group.
    1. A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
      • I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
    2. An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
      • The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
    3. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
      • We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  4. Material entity.
    1. Any physical object or material thing.
      • All bodies are held together by internal forces.
    2. (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
      • We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
    3. (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
      • The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
    4. An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
      • The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
  5. (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
  6. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Synonyms

  • See also body
  • See also corpse

Derived terms

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Translations

  • Dutch: lijf (nl) n
  • Estonian: pihaosa
  • Finnish: vartalo (fi)
  • Polish: góra (pl) f
  • Czech: tělo (cs) n
  • Esperanto: korpo (eo)
  • Finnish: ohjelmakoodi
  • German: Funktionsrumpf m
  • Hungarian: törzs (hu)
  • Icelandic: meginmál n
  • Russian: те́ло (ru) n (télo)
  • Slovak: telo (sk)

Verb

body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)

  1. To give body or shape to something.
  2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
  3. (transitive) To embody.
  4. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
  5. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
  6. (transitive, slang, video games) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.

Anagrams

body - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈbodɪ]
  • Hyphenation: bo‧dy

Noun

body n (indeclinable)

  1. bodysuit, leotard

Noun

body

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of bod

Anagrams

body - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbɔ.di/
  • Hyphenation: bo‧dy

Noun

body m (plural body's, diminutive body'tje n)

  1. A leotard.
  2. Body, substance.

body - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbody/, [ˈbo̞dy]
  • IPA: /ˈbodi/, [ˈbo̞di]
  • Homophone: bodi
  • Syllabification: bo‧dy

Noun

body

  1. snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)

Declension

Pronunciation ˈbody:

Inflection of body (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
nominative body bodyt
genitive bodyn bodyjen
partitive bodya bodyja
illative bodyyn bodyihin
Possessive forms of body (type valo)

body - Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbɔ.di/
  • Hyphenation: bò‧dy

Noun

body m (invariable)

  1. leotard

body - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈbɔ.dɨ/
  • Syllabification: bo‧dy

Noun

body n (indeclinable)

  1. bodysuit, leotard

body - Romanian

Noun

body n (plural body-uri)

  1. bodysuit

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) body body-ul (niște) body-uri body-urile
genitive/dative (unui) body body-ului (unor) body-uri body-urilor
vocative body-ule body-urilor

body - Scots

Alternative forms

Noun

body (plural bodies)

  1. body
  2. person, human being

body - Spanish

Noun

body m (plural bodys or bodies)

  1. Alternative spelling of bodi
Meaning and Definition of body
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