Definitions for Body

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Body bod·y

Spelling: [bod-ee]

IPA: /ˈbɒd i/

Body is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Body (bdoy).

Definitions for Body

noun

1. the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.
2. a corpse; carcass.
3. the trunk or main mass of a thing:
4. Anatomy, Zoology. the physical structure of a human being or animal, not including the head, limbs, and tail; trunk; torso.
5. Architecture. the principal mass of a building.
6. the section of a vehicle, usually in the shape of a box, cylindrical container, or platform, in or on which passengers or the load is carried.
7. Nautical. the hull of a ship.
8. Aeronautics. the fuselage of a plane.
9. Printing. the shank of a type, supporting the face.
10. Geometry. a figure having the three dimensions of length, breadth, and thickness; a solid.
11. Physics. a mass, especially one considered as a whole.
12. the major portion of an army, population, etc.:
13. the principal part of a speech or document, minus introduction, conclusion, indexes, etc.
14. a person:
15. Law. the physical person of an individual.
16. a collective group:
17. Astronomy. an object in space, as a planet or star.
18. a separate physical mass or quantity, especially as distinguished from other masses or quantities.
19. consistency or density; richness; substance:
20. the part of a dress that covers the trunk or the part of the trunk above the waist.
21. Ceramics. the basic material of which a ceramic article is made.

Idioms

1. in a body, as a group; together; collectively:
2. keep body and soul together, to support oneself; maintain life:

adjective

1. of or relating to the body; bodily.
2. of or relating to the main reading matter of a book, article, etc., as opposed to headings, illustrations, or the like.

verb (used with object)

1. to invest with or as with a body.
2. to represent in bodily form (usually followed by forth).

Origin of Body

before 900; Middle English; Old English bodig; akin to Old High German botah

Examples for Body

My body used for his hard pleasure; a stone god gripping me in his hands.

When the soul was again led into the body, it related all that had happened to it.

I have never seen the soul withdrawn without a struggle with the body.

It jettisons jiggling ribbons of joy to every part of my body.

The rested muscles of his body and mind craved the resistance of obstacles.

I asked, 'Is this the divine home, whence I departed into the body?'

Exhausted in mind and body, she could not long endure this tide of recollection.

In other words, the free speech exhibited by the folks at Charlie Hebdo was not virtuous—until there was a body count.

And not just sick in the body but in your mind, because you start obsessing.

“I have to think her body type played a role,” said Rachel Greenblatt, a Lecturer in Jewish Studies at Harvard University.