body
Physical frame.
The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
A corpse.
(archaic or informal) A person.
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.
(sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
Main section.
The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
(archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.
(programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
(architecture, of a church) Nave.
Coherent group.
A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
(organisation) An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
Material entity.
Any physical object or material thing.
Substance; physical presence.
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.
Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
(printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
(geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
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.
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 later be expressed in the Hermetic axiom, “As above, so below.” In fact, it is precisely this relationship between above and below that the myth explores.
To construct the bodywork of a car.
To embody.
(slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
(by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
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