body Definition - English Dictionary | body Explanations and Pronunciations

Physical frame.
1. I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
2. The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
3. Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
4. Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it [...]

The boxer took a blow to the body.
The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.

All bodies are held together by internal forces.
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.
The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
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).

VT To embody.

More Examples

Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
- for he smote so strongly and so hard himself in that rock, that all his body was dolven within through the miracle of God. — The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- The other bodies were those of the choush that had fallen by my side, and the soldier who had been shot on the parapet.
Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Body fat content: retroperitoneal fat (retroperi), inguinal fat, periadrenal fat and armpit fat.
Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Be prepared to slip and duck his jab to infight or to counter with a quick punch to the head or body.
- These cryoprotectants act colligatively by replacing the water and thus decreasing the amount of ice formed in the body.
- Graphene could change the electronics industry, ushering in flexible devices, supercharged quantum computers, electronic clothing and computers that can interface with the cells in your body.

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