Body

/ˈbɒd.iː/ · noun

Meaning

Physical frame..

Definitions by Sense

1. Physical frame.
2. Main section.
3. Coherent group.
4. Material entity.
5. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
6. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
7. (transitive, often with forth) To give body or shape to something.
8. To construct the bodywork of a car.

Example Sentences

(countable) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]

a nonpareil face on an agate body

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.

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— […]

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• bodies
• bodie
• bodying
• bodied

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