body

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UK /ˈbɒd.i/ US /ˈbɑ.di/

noun 5verb 5name 2

Collocations

(noun.) whole physical form of a person/an animal

ADJ

whole

The whole body needs regular exercise to stay healthy and strong.

upper | lower | healthy | human

BODY + NOUN

heat, temperature

shape, size, weight

She was happy with her body shape after months of regular exercise.

fat | odour | language

PREP

in the/your ~

When you exercise regularly, you can feel the strength building in your body.

on the/your ~

He noticed a small tattoo on his body that he didn't remember getting.

PHRASES

part of the body, sell your body

(noun.) dead human body

ADJ

dead | decomposed, decomposing | bloated

VERB + BODY

examine | bury, cremate, embalm | exhume

PREP

on a/the ~

The police discovered a wallet and keys on the body at the crime scene.

(noun.) amount of sth

ADJ

large, substantial, vast

A substantial body of research shows that regular exercise improves mental health.

PHRASES

a body of water

The small fishing village sits beside a calm body of water where locals catch fish every morning.

(noun.) main part of sth

ADJ

main

Most of the important organs are located in the main body of the human skeleton.

(noun.) object

ADJ

foreign

A doctor discovered a foreign body lodged in the patient's throat during the examination.

celestial, heavenly

The moon is a celestial body that orbits around Earth.

(noun.) group of people who work/act together

ADJ

body)

The local governing body decided to invest more money in school improvements this year.

VERB + BODY

create, establish, form, set up | elect

PREP

in a ~

All the protesters moved in a body toward the city hall to demand change.

Definitions

noun

Physical frame.

I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body.

Physical frame.

The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

Physical frame.

Her body was found at four o’clock, just two hours after the murder.

The bodies of 19-year-old best friends Holly Bowles and Bianca Jones were returned to Australia on Tuesday night.

Physical frame.

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 […]

Sometime I've set right down and eat WITH him. But you needn't tell that. A body's got to do things when he's awful hungry he wouldn't want to do as a steady thing.

Physical frame.

the early modern English husband not only took control over his wife's property upon marriage, he also acquired property in her body.

This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.

verb

To give body or shape to something.

And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.

[A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before your eyes a picture like the following— […]

To construct the bodywork of a car.

To embody.

I don’t say, one bodies the other / One’s spiritual truth; / But I do say it’s hard to lose either, / When you have both.

To murder someone.

I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.

name

A surname transferred from the nickname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of

soundbox

noun — the property of holding together and retaining its shape

noun — the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

torso
trunk

verb — invest with or as with a body

personify

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

over my dead body

Under no circumstances; absolutely not.

"Can I get a new sports car?" "Over my dead body!"

move one's body

To dance.

body English

A body motion made to coax an object already propelled to go in a desired direction.

A mountain rider will as he loses momentum will turn out a bit, reducing the angle of attack. He will continue carving switchbacks, using body english jumping from one side of his

body blow

A severely injurious or damaging physical strike or impact.

The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.

warm body

Any person who is present.

So when leaders keep around C players (or the warm bodies), the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time.

Example Bank

I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

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If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body? And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not

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Lizzo, who is known for messages of self-love and wider acceptance, has recently said as much as she shared that she is encouraging a stance of body neutrality for herself and others. […] “Everyone’s

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And as imagination bodies forth / The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen / Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing / A local habitation and a name.

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[A]s you stand on the steps of the Castle Green in this strange place, you feel quite floaty. This you are told is the scene of the Merthyr riots; and you feel still floatier as you body forth before

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The drama of the storehouse on earth has its counterpart in Heaven, and if we accept the insights of both Jacobsen and von Dechend, we can see that the myth is bodying forth a principle which will lat

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Usage Notes

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In some senses, body is marked as slang, archaic. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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