'Body' definitions:
Definition of 'body'
From: WordNet
noun
The entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" [syn: body, organic structure, physical structure]
noun
A group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"
noun
A natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" [syn: body, dead body]
noun
An individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body"
noun
The body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: torso, trunk, body]
noun
A collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
noun
The property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body]
noun
The central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short"
noun
The main mass of a thing
noun
A resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) [syn: soundbox, body]
noun
The external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted"
verb
Invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body, personify]
Definition of 'Body'
From: GCIDE
- Body \Bod"y\, n.; pl. Bodies. [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. [root]257. Cf. Bodice.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person. [1913 Webster]
- Absent in body, but present in spirit. --1 Cor. v. 3 [1913 Webster]
- For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- Rivers that run up into the body of Italy. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. [1913 Webster]
- Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. --Col. ii. 17. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody. [1913 Webster]
- A dry, shrewd kind of a body. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body. [1913 Webster]
- A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an a["e]riform body. "A body of cold air." --Huxley. [1913 Webster]
- By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Amount; quantity; extent. [1913 Webster]
- 9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs. [1913 Webster]
- 10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body. [1913 Webster]
- 11. (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body. [1913 Webster]
- 12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure. [1913 Webster]
- 13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color. [1913 Webster]
- 14. (A["e]ronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or a["e]rocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called fuselage. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- After body (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat.
- Body cavity (Anat.), the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the c[ae]lum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities.
- Body of a church, the nave.
- Body cloth; pl.
- Body cloths, a cloth or blanket for covering horses.
- Body clothes. (pl.)
- 1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing.
- 2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.] --Addison.
- Body coat, a gentleman's dress coat.
- Body color (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash.
- Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part.
- Body louse (Zool.), a species of louse ({Pediculus vestimenti}), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback.
- Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length.
- Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
- As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of "people", or "nation". --Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
- Body servant, a valet.
- The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist.
- Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Body'
From: GCIDE
- Body \Bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bodied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Bodying.] To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody. [1913 Webster]
- To body forth, to give from or shape to mentally. [1913 Webster]
- Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'body'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Adamite,
- 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,
- Bund,
- 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,
- Festschrift,
- 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,
- Rochdale cooperative,
- 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
Words containing 'Body'
- After body,
- Bodied,
- Bodies,
- Bodying,
- Body cavity,
- Body cloth,
- Body clothes,
- Body cloths,
- Body coat,
- Body color,
- Body louse,
- Body of a church,
- Body of a law,
- Body plan,
- Body politic,
- Body servant,
- Body snatcher,
- Body snatching,
- Cavernous body,
- Fixed bodies,
- Fluids of the body,
- Fore body,
- Foreign body,
- Pituitary body,
- Platonic bodies,
- Polar body,
- Quadrigeminal bodies,
- Round bodies,
- The bodies seven,
- Thymus body,
- Thyroid body,
- To body forth,
- Torpedo body,
- Vitreous body,
- Wolffian body,
- acetone body,
- administrative body,
- adult body,
- black body,
- body and soul,
- body armor,
- body armour,
- body bag,
- body build,
- body count,
- body covering,
- body english,
- body fluid,
- body forth,
- body guard,
- body hair,
- body language,
- body length,
- body lotion,
- body odor,
- body odour,
- body of the place,
- body of water,
- body of work,
- body pad,
- body part,
- body plethysmograph,
- body process,
- body shop,
- body stocking,
- body structure,
- body substance,
- body suit,
- body temperature,
- body type,
- body waste,
- body weight,
- cancer body,
- carotid body,
- celestial body,
- central body,
- child's body,
- ciliary body,
- dead body,
- estraterrestrial body,
- female body,
- fruiting body,
- full bodied,
- geniculate body,
- golgi body,
- governing body,
- heavenly body,
- human body,
- inclusion body,
- juvenile body,
- ketone body,
- legislative body,
- live body,
- male body,
- malpighian body,
- mamillary body,
- mammillary body,
- man's body,
- material body,
- physical body,
- pineal body,
- platonic body,
- russell's body,
- striate body,
- suprarenal bodies,
- woman's body,
- Close-bodied,
- Deviation of a falling body,
- Feat-bodied,
- Intrinsic energy of a body,
- Primary qualities of bodies,
- Shallow-bodied,
- able-bodied,
- adult female body,
- adult male body,
- basal body temperature,
- body mass index,
- body-build,
- body-surf,
- complex body part,
- external body part,
- full-bodied,
- inclusion body encephalitis,
- inclusion body myositis,
- lateral geniculate body,
- liquid body substance,
- lithe-bodied,
- long-bodied,
- medial geniculate body,
- narrow-bodied,
- narrow-body,
- out-of-body experience,
- oval-bodied,
- short-bodied,
- silver-bodied,
- silvery-bodied,
- slender-bodied,
- slim-bodied,
- smooth-bodied,
- solid body substance,
- thick-bodied,
- thin-bodied,
- wide-body,
- worship of heavenly bodies,
- Diurnal motion of a heavenly body,
- Periodic time of a heavenly body,
- Point system of type bodies,
- able-bodied seaman,
- acute inclusion body encephalitis,
- basal body temperature method,
- black-body radiation,
- narrow-body aircraft,
- subacute inclusion body encephalitis,
- wide-body aircraft,
- Equimomental cone of a given rigid body,
- basal body temperature method of family planning