body meaning
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- Body or BODY may refer to:
- NounPLbodies
- Physical frame.
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- 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 [...]
- Main section.
- 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.
- Coherent group.
- 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.
- Material entity.
- 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).
- a nonpareil face on an agate body
- (geometry) a three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
- Physical frame.
- VerbSGbodiesPRbodyingPT, PPbodied
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The multivesicular bodies release their contents upon arrival at the perikarion.
- A microscopic examination revealed a mostly microfollicular pattern of growth with Call–Exner bodies and occasional macrofollicular pattern areas ( Fig.
- The motions of the minute parts of bodies [ …] are to be deprehended by experience. — Francis Bacon.
- 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
- The electrifying beat sent pulses of energy through my body.
- "I'll fotch her up," volunteered Texas, who had a hyena's hankering after dead bodies.
- He smelled of beer and cigarette smoke and his own body.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of body in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary

