BODY (bodied)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body mean? 

• BODY (noun)
  The noun BODY has 11 senses:

1. the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)

2. a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

3. a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

4. an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects

5. the body excluding the head and neck and limbs

6. a collection of particulars considered as a system

7. the property of holding together and retaining its shape

8. the central message of a communication

9. the main mass of a thing

10. a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)

11. the external structure of a vehicle

  Familiarity information: BODY used as a noun is familiar.

• BODY (verb)
  The verb BODY has 1 sense:

1. invest with or as with a body; give body to

  Familiarity information: BODY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

body; organic structure

Context example:

he felt as if his whole body were on fire

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

Meronyms (parts of "body"):

body substance (the substance of the body)

articulatory system (the system of joints in the body)

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

digestive system; gastrointestinal system; systema alimentarium; systema digestorium (the system that makes food absorbable into the body)

endocrine system (the system of glands that produce endocrine secretions that help to control bodily metabolic activity)

lymphatic system; systema lymphaticum (the interconnected system of spaces and vessels between body tissues and organs by which lymph circulates throughout the body)

musculoskeletal system (the system of muscles and tendons and ligaments and bones and joints and associated tissues that move the body and maintain its form)

nervous system; systema nervosum (the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells)

respiratory system; systema respiratorium (the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide; in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing)

sensory system (the body's system of sense organs)

vascular system (the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant)

cardiovascular system; circulatory system (the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body)

caput; head (the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains)

cervix; neck (the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body)

body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)

leg (a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle)

arm (a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb)

crotch; fork (the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk)

pressure point (any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point)

Domain category:

animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body"):

life form (the characteristic bodily form of a mature organism)

anatomy; bod; build; chassis; figure; flesh; form; frame; human body; material body; physical body; physique; shape; soma (alternative names for the body of a human being)

live body (the body of a living animal or person)

Derivation:

bodily (having or relating to a physical material body)

bodily (of or relating to or belonging to the body)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

administrative body

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

social group (people sharing some social relation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body"):

leaders; leadership (the body of people who lead a group)

militia (the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service)

membership; rank (the body of members of an organization or group)

occupational group; vocation (a body of people doing the same kind of work)

opposition (a body of people united in opposing something)

immigration (the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval)

inspectorate (a body of inspectors)

jury (a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law)

panel (a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc)

panel; venire ((law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen))

enrollment; registration (the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time)

vote (a body of voters who have the same interests)

diaspora (the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel)

administration; brass; establishment; governance; governing body; organisation; organization (the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something)

colony; settlement (a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government)

public (a body of people sharing some common interest)

Christendom; Christianity (the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia))

church (the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church)

cardinalate; College of Cardinals; Sacred College; Sacred College of Cardinals ((Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope)

corps (a body of people associated together)

constituency (the body of voters who elect a representative for their area)

electoral college (the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice president)

school (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers)

college (the body of faculty and students of a college)

university (the body of faculty and students at a university)

faculty; staff (the body of teachers and administrators at a school)

representation (a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency)

ulama; ulema (the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A natural object consisting of a dead animal or person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

body; dead body

Context example:

they found the body in the lake

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body"):

cadaver; clay; corpse; remains; stiff (the dead body of a human being)

mummy (a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt))

roadkill (the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle)

carrion (the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food)

carcase; carcass (the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food)

kill (the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal)

Derivation:

body (invest with or as with a body; give body to)

Sense 4

Meaning:

An individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

heavenly body

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

natural object (an object occurring naturally; not made by man)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body"):

chromosome (a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order)

cellular inclusion; inclusion; inclusion body (any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases))

mass (a body of matter without definite shape)

particle; subatomic particle (a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The body excluding the head and neck and limbs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

body; torso; trunk

Context example:

they moved their arms and legs and bodies

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Meronyms (parts of "body"):

diaphragm; midriff ((anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration)

shoulder (the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm)

articulatio humeri; shoulder; shoulder joint (a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula)

serratus; serratus muscles (any of several muscles of the trunk)

side (either the left or right half of a body)

chest; pectus; thorax (the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates)

middle; midriff; midsection (the middle area of the human torso (usually in front))

waist; waistline (the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips)

belly; paunch (a protruding abdomen)

love handle; spare tire (excess fat around the waistline)

hip (either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh)

haunch (the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings)

abdomen; belly; stomach; venter (the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis)

back; dorsum (the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine)

arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush (the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on)

buttock; cheek (either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump)

loins (the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen)

Holonyms ("body" is a part of...):

body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))

Sense 6

Meaning:

A collection of particulars considered as a system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

a body of precedents

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

scheme; system (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The property of holding together and retaining its shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

body; consistence; consistency; substance

Context example:

when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)

Attribute:

thick (relatively dense in consistency)

thin (relatively thin in consistency or low in density; not viscous)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body"):

unbreakableness (a consistency of something that does not break under pressure)

solidity; solidness (the consistency of a solid)

porosity; porousness (the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids)

breakableness (the consistency of something that breaks under pressure)

softness (the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded)

hardness (the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale)

thinness (a consistency of low viscosity)

thickness (resistance to flow)

viscosity; viscousness (resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow))

gaseousness (having the consistency of a gas)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The central message of a communication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

the body of the message was short

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Holonyms ("body" is a part of...):

narration; recital; yarn (the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events)

address; speech (the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience)

Sense 9

Meaning:

The main mass of a thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)

Sense 10

Meaning:

A resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

body; soundbox

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

cavity resonator; resonating chamber; resonator (a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves)

Sense 11

Meaning:

The external structure of a vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the body of the car was badly rusted

Hypernyms ("body" is a kind of...):

construction; structure (a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body"):

fuselage (the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo))

bodywork (the exterior body of a motor vehicle)

• BODY (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Invest with or as with a body; give body to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

body; personify

Hypernyms (to "body" is one way to...):

be; embody; personify (represent, as of a character on stage)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person)

 Context examples 

He said that he had never heard of any such body.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Abscesses inside your body may not be obvious and can damage organs, including the brain, lungs and others.

(Abscess, NIH)

This is very hard work, for I am greatly weary, and as well I must drive the dogs, and the man and woman are very heavy with no strength in their bodies.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

An enclosed collection of pus in tissues, organs, or confined spaces in the body.

(Abscess, NCI Dictionary)

An inflammatory process characterized by the accumulation of pus within a newly formed tissue cavity which is the result of a bacterial, fungal, or parasitic infection or the presence of a foreign body.

(Abscess, NCI Thesaurus)

The loss of a fluid from an abscess into the surrounding tissue or body cavity.

(Abscess Leakage, NCI Thesaurus)

They help the body fight infection.

(Absolute neutrophil count, NCI Dictionary)

Monoclonal antibodies are made in the laboratory and can locate and bind to substances in the body, including cancer cells.

(ABX-EGF, NCI Dictionary)

One of the key processes in which human body eliminates toxic chemicals as well as hormones (such as estrogen) is by glucuronidation.

(Aceglatone, NCI Thesaurus)

The process of taking nutrients from the digestive system into the blood so they can be used in the body.

(Absorption, NCI Dictionary)