body

See also: Body

English

Alternative forms

• bodie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɒdi/

• Audio (UK):

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑdi/, [ˈbɑɾi]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒdi
• Hyphenation: bod‧y
• Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

Picture dictionary

body

1= head 2= face 3= neck 4= shoulder 5= chest 6= navel, belly button 7= abdomen 8= groin 9= penis 10-14= leg 15-19= arm

body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)

1. Physical frame.
   1. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]

      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. [from 13th c.]

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

   3. A corpse. [from 13th c.]

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

   4. (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person. [from 13th c.]
      • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:

        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 […]

      • 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Chapter 28:

        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.

      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

        “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.

      What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?

   5. (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
      • 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)

        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.

      • 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations (page 3)

        In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.

      • 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies (page 5)

        As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.

2. Main section.
   1. The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]

      The boxer took a blow to the body.

   2. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]

      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. [from 16th c.]

      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. [from 17th c.]
   5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
   6. (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. [from 20th c.]

      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. [from 16th c.]

      I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.

   2. An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]

      The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

   3. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]

      We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.

4. Material entity.
   1. Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]

      All bodies are held together by internal forces.

   2. (uncountable) Substance; physical presence. [from 17th c.]
      • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1

        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.

      We have given body to what was just a vague idea.

   3. (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]

      The red wine, sadly, lacked body.

   4. An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
      • 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:

        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 […]

      • 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "World's largest extrusive body of sand?", Geology, volume 40, issue 5

        Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km³) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.

      • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns

        The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole. 

      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

   • 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, ‎Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (page 99)

     The stemless notes could have been cast on a body as short as 4 mm but were probably cast on bodies of the standard 14 mm size for ease of composition.

6. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:body
• See also Thesaurus:corpse

Derived terms

• acetone body
• administrative body
• advisory body
• after body
• amygaloid body
• anococcygeal body
• anybody
• asteroid body
• astral body
• Barr body
• black body
• bodice
• bodily
• body armour
• body bag
• body blow
• body-build
• bodybuilder
• bodybuilding
• body cavity
• body-centered
• body check
• body clock
• body coat
• body conscious
• body contact
• body count
• body-hugging
• body image
• body louse (Pediculus humanus)
• body mass index
• body odour
• body of water
• body politic
• bodyshell
• bodyship
• body shop
• body snatcher
• bodysuit
• body-surf
• body weight, bodyweight
• bodywork
• car body
• dead body
• foreign body
• foreign body
• heavenly body
• know where the bodies are buried
• mind-body
• nobody
• out-of-body
• overbody
• over my dead body
• real body
• somebody
• student body
• subtle body
• zebra body

 

terms starting with “body”

Translations

physical structure of a human or animal

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• Arabic: ^{(please verify)} جسم (ar), ^{(please verify)} جسد
• Breton: ^{(please verify)} karroñsadur m
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} каросерия (bg) f (karoserija)
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• Ido: ^{(please verify)} korpo (io)
• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} tubuh (id), ^{(please verify)} badan (id)
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} corpus (la)
• Ukrainian: ^{(please verify)} ті́ло n (tílo)

See also

• corporal
• corporeal

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.
   • 1955, Philip Larkin, Toads:

     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.

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

• BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbodɪ/
• Rhymes: -odɪ
• Hyphenation: bo‧dy

Etymology 1

From English body, bodysuit.

Noun

body n (indeclinable)

1. bodysuit, leotard

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

body

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

Anagrams

• doby

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English body.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.di/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bo‧dy

Noun

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

1. A leotard.
2. Body, substance.

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbody/, [ˈbo̞dy]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbodi/, [ˈbo̞di]
• Rhymes: -ody
• Homophone: bodi
• Syllabification^(key): 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
		singular	plural
nominative		body	bodyt
accusative	nom.	body	bodyt
	gen.	bodyn
genitive		bodyn	bodyjen
partitive		bodya	bodyja
inessive		bodyssa	bodyissa
elative		bodysta	bodyista
illative		bodyyn	bodyihin
adessive		bodylla	bodyilla
ablative		bodylta	bodyilta
allative		bodylle	bodyille
essive		bodyna	bodyina
translative		bodyksi	bodyiksi
abessive		bodytta	bodyitta
instructive		—	bodyin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of body (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative bodyni bodyni accusative nom. bodyni bodyni gen. bodyni genitive bodyni bodyjeni partitive bodyani bodyjani inessive bodyssani bodyissani elative bodystani bodyistani illative bodyyni bodyihini adessive bodyllani bodyillani ablative bodyltani bodyiltani allative bodylleni bodyilleni essive bodynani bodyinani translative bodykseni bodyikseni abessive bodyttani bodyittani instructive — — comitative — bodyineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative bodysi bodysi accusative nom. bodysi bodysi gen. bodysi genitive bodysi bodyjesi partitive bodyasi bodyjasi inessive bodyssasi bodyissasi elative bodystasi bodyistasi illative bodyysi bodyihisi adessive bodyllasi bodyillasi ablative bodyltasi bodyiltasi allative bodyllesi bodyillesi essive bodynasi bodyinasi translative bodyksesi bodyiksesi abessive bodyttasi bodyittasi instructive — — comitative — bodyinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative bodymme bodymme accusative nom. bodymme bodymme gen. bodymme genitive bodymme bodyjemme partitive bodyamme bodyjamme inessive bodyssamme bodyissamme elative bodystamme bodyistamme illative bodyymme bodyihimme adessive bodyllamme bodyillamme ablative bodyltamme bodyiltamme allative bodyllemme bodyillemme essive bodynamme bodyinamme translative bodyksemme bodyiksemme abessive bodyttamme bodyittamme instructive — — comitative — bodyinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative bodynne bodynne accusative nom. bodynne bodynne gen. bodynne genitive bodynne bodyjenne partitive bodyanne bodyjanne inessive bodyssanne bodyissanne elative bodystanne bodyistanne illative bodyynne bodyihinne adessive bodyllanne bodyillanne ablative bodyltanne bodyiltanne allative bodyllenne bodyillenne essive bodynanne bodyinanne translative bodyksenne bodyiksenne abessive bodyttanne bodyittanne instructive — — comitative — bodyinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative bodynsa bodynsa accusative nom. bodynsa bodynsa gen. bodynsa genitive bodynsa bodyjensa partitive bodyaan bodyansa bodyjaan bodyjansa inessive bodyssaan bodyssansa bodyissaan bodyissansa elative bodystaan bodystansa bodyistaan bodyistansa illative bodyynsa bodyihinsa adessive bodyllaan bodyllansa bodyillaan bodyillansa ablative bodyltaan bodyltansa bodyiltaan bodyiltansa allative bodylleen bodyllensa bodyilleen bodyillensa essive bodynaan bodynansa bodyinaan bodyinansa translative bodykseen bodyksensa bodyikseen bodyiksensa abessive bodyttaan bodyttansa bodyittaan bodyittansa instructive — — comitative — bodyineen bodyinensa

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.di/

Noun

body m (uncountable)

1. leotard

   Synonym: calzamaglia

Further reading

• body in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Polish

Etymology

From English body(suit).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.dɨ/

• Audio:

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Noun

body n (indeclinable)

1. bodysuit, leotard

Further reading

• body in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Template:R:PWN

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Scots

Alternative forms

• bodie

Etymology

From Middle English body, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).

Noun

body (plural bodies)

1. body
2. person, human being

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Spanish

Noun

body m (plural bodys or bodies)

1. bodysuit