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Definition: Body |
BodyNoun1. The entire physical structure of an organism (especially an animal or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire". 2. Body of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake". 3. A group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium". 4. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies". 5. An individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects; "heavenly body". 6. A collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents". 7. The external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted". 8. The property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake". 9. The central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short". Verb1. Invest with or as with a body; give body to. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "body" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Body \Bod"y\, noun; plural Bodies. [Old English bodi, Anglo-Saxon bodig; akin to Old High German botah. Compare to Bodice.]. (references) |
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Satire | BODY-:SNATCHER:, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. "While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink! "Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." Bettel K. Jhones. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Chemical Industry | Preparation of the ceramic paste(or body)involves measuring and mixing the various constituents and sieving the resulting mixture, stiffening, maturing where necessary, and de-airing t he body. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Usually consists of the plate and the bridges. Source: European Union. (references) |
Aerospace | 1. The main part or main central portion of an airplane, airship, rocket, or the like; a fuselage or hull.2. In a general sense, any fabrication, structure, or other material form, especially one aerodynamically or ballistically designed, as, an airfoil is a body designed to produce an aerodynamic reaction. (references) |
Chemical Industry | A general term referring to a subjective evaluation of viscosity, consistency and flow of a vehicle or ink. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | A)a protective covering of resilient material over any portion of a cable wire termination or termination assembly in addition to normal jacketing of insulation, to prevent entry of moisture; b)a form of holding potting compound. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The character imparted to a wine by richness in dry extract. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Tactile sensation perceived in the mouth which gives a degree of density, viscosity, consistency or compactness to a product. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| In a plough, the group of the parts associated with cutting, lifting and turning the furrow slice. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Language | The blend of raw materials, after they have been mixed and moistened, ready for making into refractory products. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Body (Anglo-Saxon, bodig.) A regular body, in geometry, means one of the five regular solids, called "Platonic" because first suggested by Plato. (See Platonic Bodies.) To body forth. To give mental shape to an ideal form. "Imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown." Shakespeare: Midsummer Night's Dream, v.1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | The body of the saw blade, usually tempered steel, to which the teeth or toothed segments are attached by rivets, pins, clamps, or brazing(circular blades), or welding(band-and hacksaw blades). Source: European Union. (references) |
| That part of a shank which is not threaded. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| That portion of the drill extending from the extreme cutting end to the commencement of the shank. (UK)The portion of the drill between the shank and the outer corners of the cutting lips. (USA). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. An orebody, or pocket of mineral deposit b. See:bit blank c. The fluidity of a drilling mud expressed in the number of seconds in which a given quantity of mud flows through a given aperture, such as the aperture in a Marsh funnel d. The term used to indicate the viscosity or fluidity of a lubricating oil; e.g., a heavy-body oil is thick and viscous and a light-body oil is thin and fluid f. The fatty, inflammable property that makes a coal combustible; e.g.,bituminous coal has morebody than anthracite. (references) |
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Solar system Extrasolar system Simple objects Compound objects Extended objects
- Sun
- Planets
- Mercury
- Venus
- Earth
- Moon
- Mars
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
- Pluto
- Asteroids
- Meteoroids
- Comets
- Exoplanets
- Stars by spectral type
- White dwarfs
- Yellow dwarfs
- Red dwarfs
- Brown dwarfs
- Black dwarfs
- Red giants
- Blue giants
- Red supergiants
- Variable stars
- Mira variables
- Cepheid variables
- Semiregular variables
- Irregular variables
- Eruptive variables
- Compact stars
- White dwarfs
- Neutron stars
- Black holes
- Magnetars
- MACHO
- Novae
- Pulsars
- Supernovae
- Stellar associations
- Binary stars
- visual binaries
- spectroscopic binaries
- eclipsing binaries
- detached binaries
- semidetached binaries
- contact binaries
- Triple stars
- Star clusters
- Open clusters
- Globular clusters
- Galaxies
- Active galaxies
- Blazars
- Quasars
- Radio galaxies
- Seyfert galaxies
- Starburst galaxies
- Galaxy clusters
- Nebulae
- Planetary nebulae
- Bright nebulae
- Emission nebulae
- Reflection nebulae
- Dark nebulae
- Molecular clouds
- H II regions
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With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. In some contexts, a superficial element of a body, such as hair may be regarded as not a part of it, even while attached. The same is true of excretable substances, such as stool, both while residing in the body and afterwards. Plants composed of more than one biological cell are not normally regarded as possessing a body.
"Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death. The body of a dead person is also called a corpse (human) or cadaver. The dead bodies of vertebrate animals and insects are sometimes called carcasses.
The human body consists of a head, neck, trunk, two arms, two legs and the genitals of the groin, which differ between males and females.
The study of the working of a body is anatomy.
A body is also a held-together collection or group of physical objects or abstract ideas, and in particular an organisation. The whole is of more than the sum of the individual members.
See Also
- Emergence
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Body."
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Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. It studies organs and organ systems of the human body, leaving the study of tissues to histology and cells to cytology. The human body, like the bodies of all animals, is made up of systems, that are made up of organs, that are made up of tissues, that are made up of cells.
See History of anatomy for a history of anatomy, including human anatomy.
Index for Human Anatomy
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Major systems of the human body:
Common names of well known parts of the human body, from top to bottom:
- Cardiovascular system: the blood circulation with heart and veins
- Digestive system: processing food with mouth, stomach and intestines
- Endocrine system: communicating within the body using hormones
- Excretory system: eliminating wastes from the body
- Immune system: defending against disease-causing agents
- Integumentary system: skin, hair and nails
- Muscular system: moving the body
- Nervous system: collecting, transferring and processing information with brain and nerves
- Reproductive system: the sex organs
- Respiratory system: the organs used for breathing, the lungs
- Skeletal system: structural support and protection through bones
Common names of internal organs (in alphabetical order):
- Head -- Eye -- Ear -- Nose -- Mouth -- Tongue -- Teeth -- Mandible
- Neck -- Throat -- Shoulders
- Arm -- Elbow -- Wrist -- Hand -- Finger -- Thumb
- Spine -- Chest -- Breast -- Ribcage
- Abdomen -- Sex organs (Penis/Scrotum or Vagina) -- Rectum -- Anus
- Hip -- Buttocks -- Leg -- Knee -- Ankle -- Foot -- Toes
Brain anatomy terms:
- Adrenal glands -- Appendix -- Bladder -- Brain -- Duodenum -- Gall bladder -- Heart -- Intestines -- Kidney --Liver-- Lungs -- Ovaries -- Pancreas -- Parathyroid gland -- Pituitary gland -- Prostate gland -- Spleen -- Stomach -- Thymus gland -- Thyroid gland -- Testicles -- Womb
See also:
- Amygdala -- Brainstem -- Cerebellum -- Cerebral cortex -- Hypothalamus -- Limbic system -- medulla-- midbrain -- Pituitary gland -- pons
- List of human anatomical features
- List of muscles of the human body
- List of bones of the human skeleton
- Terms for anatomical location
- Body orifices
- for physiological consequences of death, see Death
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Human anatomy."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BODY | English | British Organ Donor Society | Medicine |
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Synonyms: BodySynonyms: consistence (n), consistency (n), dead body (n), organic structure (n), physical structure (n), torso (n), trunk (n), personify (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host;crowd, throng, group; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo; bunch, drive, force, mulada; remuda; roundup; array, bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment; (combatants); host; (multitude); populousness. |
Mankind | Human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae; quidam. |
MATERIALITY | Matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame. |
Party | Community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity; familistere, familistery; brotherhood, sisterhood. |
Substantiality | Noun: substantiality, hypostasis; person, being, thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum; matter; corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part. |
Whole | Bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages; trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part; essential part; (importance).; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Thirty years had passed, yet her body remained that of an eternal child (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) We can put you inside someone else's body, for fifteen minutes (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) There. Your body matches your brain (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi; writing credit: Cindy Davis Hewitt; Donald H. Hewitt) Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) Marine, what is that button on your body armor (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) | |
Lyrics | Jump your body move your (Move Your Body; performing artist: Eiffel 65) I wanna rock your body, please stay (Rock Your Body; performing artist: JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE) I left my body laying somewhere in the SANDS of time (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) To Explore My Body (Rock the Boat; performing artist: Aaliyah) Tell me that your body doesn't miss my touch (What It Takes; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Clever | Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. (references; author: Mark Twain) Body By Nautilus; Brain By Mattel. (references; author: unknown) I Have The Body Of A God... Buddha. (references; author: unknown) Planet: A body of Earth surrounded by sky. (references; author: unknown) What soap is for the body; tears are for the soul. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Body and Soul (2002) The Body Shop (1973) Here Comes Every Body (1972) The Incredible Body Snatchers (1972) This Body Is Mine (1971) | |
Song Titles | SHAKE YOUR BODY (DOwN TO THE GROUND) (performing artist: Jacksons ) Rock Your Body (performing artist: Justin Timberlake) My Body (performing artist: LSG) Body Rock (performing artist: Moby) Living With The Dreaming Body (performing artist: Poi Dog Pondering) | |
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 | The image shows a close-up of a patient's body prior to radiation treatment. A lighted scale is projected onto the body to exactly line up the treatment with the tumor site. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies confirm that this patient's cutaneous t-cell lymph cancer involves the lymph nodes and skin. The antibodies collect in the cancerous lymph nodes of the armpits, neck and groin and a strong outline of the patient's body verifies skin involvement. The liver and spleen are darkened, too, because it is normal for these organs to collect the antibodies. See artwork: GA-17. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | With slight magnification, the main body divisions and gross morphological characteristics of mosquito larvae can be observed. In this manner, scientists can quickly identify larvae in the field, rather than returning to the laboratory. Credit: CDC. |  | Gonorrhea, caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, if left untreated will enter the blood, thereby, spreading throughout the body. As is shown here, such full body dissemination may manifest itself as skin lesions and arthritic joints. Credit: CDC. |
 | HL-10 Lifting Body. Credit: NASA. |  | Pilot Milt Thompson and the M2-F2 Lifting Body. Credit: NASA. |
 | Nicknamed "Dragon Lake," this body of water is formed by the Bratskove Reservoir, built along the Angara River in southern Siberia, near the city of Bratsk. This image was acquired in winter, when the lake is frozen. Credit: NASA. |  | A ghastly view of fish squeezed through the net by the tons of fish trapped within the main body of the net. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve A Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina, is a small phocid with a stubby, compact body and short limbs. Colors range from silver-gray to tan and all are spotted. They occur in almost all nearshore environments from Baja,California to the Bering Sea. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Figure 8. Integrating solarimeter - measures energy developed from solar radiation based on the absorption of heat by a black body. The principle this instrument was designed on was first developed by the Italian priest, Father Angelo Bellani. He invented the actinometric method which is based on physical and chemical techniques. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
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| "Body Parts 9 - Lips" by Dan Mulligan Commentary: "Close up of male lips." | "Body o' Guitar" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "My geetar sitting by my desk..." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aulus Vitellius | The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet. |
Dante Alighieri | I fell as a dead body falls. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | A feeble body weakens the mind. |
John Donne | To be no part of any body, is to be nothing. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. |
Publilius Syrus | Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. |
Samuel Johnson | He who praises every body, praises nobody. |
Seneca | Disease is not of the body but of the place. |
William Shakespeare | 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | No body can deny but the nourishment is his. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2028 | Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | If it had been intended to leave it in the discretion of the legislature to apportion the judicial power between the supreme and inferior courts according to the will of that body, it would certainly have been useless to have proceeded further than to have defined the judicial power, and the tribunals in which it should be vested. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The Director or his deputy shall attend all meetings of the Governing Body. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Mr. Weston directed the whole, officiating safely between Hartfield and the Vicarage, and every body was in good time |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | But the body is unquestionable |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | Zaphod screamed a diminished fifth himself, dropped his light and sat heavily on the floor, or rather on a body which had been lying there undisturbed for six months and which reacted to being sat on by exploding with great violence |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Yet, if the clergyman were rightly viewed, his strength seemed not of the body. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Monastic communities are to the great social community what the ivy is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He felt only an ache of soul and body, his whole being, memory, will, understanding, flesh, benumbed and weary |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | [To RICHARD] When I was mortal, my anointed body By thee was punched full of deadly holes |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The red ant was crushed between body and legs |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my armpits to my thighs |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | How large a body of Walden water would be required to reflect a green tint I have never proved |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Negri body in infected neuron. (references) | |
Changes in various body systems. (references) | ||
Loss of body fluids and nutrients. (references) | ||
Business | KEMA is the notified body in Netherlands. (references) | |
This body has no decision-making authority. (references) | ||
NGO reports stated that the body showed signs of torture. (references) | ||
Children | Zimbabwe | Body parts from children and teenagers reportedly were considered the most efficacious for some such purposes. (references) |
Ghana | The Ghana National Commission on Children (GNCC) is a policymaking and coordinating body established to improve the lives of children. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | There were continuing reports that children were killed for body parts by persons practicing healing rituals associated with traditional religions. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | China | Buddhists make up the largest body of organized religious believers. (references) |
Czech Republic | No independent body has been established to handle the appeals of those denied refugee status. (references) | |
Sweden | A quasi-governmental body excises extremely graphic violence from films, television programs, and videos. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | The top executive body is the Federal Council. (references) |
Mongolia | The Supreme Court is the highest judicial body. (references) | |
Dominican Rep | The CNZF is a joint private sector/government body. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macedonia | Ajeti's body was found in the street. (references) |
Peru | His face and body showed evidence of torture. (references) | |
Ecuador | His body showed signs of other physical abuse. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | Both organizations joined the Permanent Conference of Indigenous Peoples, an umbrella body that coordinates the activities of the country's indigenous population. (references) |
Sweden | The country counts at least 17,000 Sami (formerly known as Lapps) in its population (Sami organizations place that number somewhat higher at 25,000 to 30,000). In 1993 the Government allowed the formation of a Sametinget (Sami Parliament) as an advisory body to the Government. (references) | |
Minorities | Ghana | The Permanent Peace Negotiating Team (PPNT) is a facilitative body whose primary purpose is to mediate disputes. (references) |
Political Economy | BRAZIL | The WTO Appellate Body upheld this finding. (references) |
Italy | The Chamber of Deputies is the more influential body. (references) | |
Bhutan | Programs to build a body of written law and to train lawyers are progressing. (references) | |
Political Rights | Uzbekistan | The Parliament (Oliy Majlis) is the highest government body constitutionally. (references) |
Malaysia | Over the years, Parliament's function as a deliberative body has deteriorated. (references) | |
United Arab Emirates | A federal consultative body, called the Federal National Council (FNC), consists of 40 advisers appointed by the rulers. (references) | |
Trade | Vietnam | The same can be said for the SBV, the supervisory and regulatory body. (references) |
Turkey | In 1994, the Central Bank became an autonomous body but is not independent. (references) | |
Philippines | The Bureau of Product Standards (BPS) is the Philippines' National Standards Body. (references) | |
Travel | Ghana | Add extra salt to your food to replace what your body loses in perspiration. (references) |
Pakistan | The Karachi International School and the significantly smaller Lahore American School, both with a majority Pakistani student body, also offer K-12 classes. (references) | |
Women | Qatar | Females constitute approximately two-thirds of the student body at Qatar University. (references) |
Worker Rights | Dominica | The Advisory Committee on Safety and Health is an established body but has never met. (references) |
Cape Verde | However, at year's end, the Government had not created an independent body to resolve such differences. (references) | |
Brazil | Although police said that they used only tear gas and rubber bullets, live ammunition was found in Ferreira's body. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SCIMETAR, n. A curved sword of exceeding keenness, in the conduct of which certain Orientals attain a surprising proficiency, as the incident here related will serve to show. The account is translated from the Japanese by Shusi Itama, a famous writer of the thirteenth century. When the great Gichi-Kuktai was Mikado he condemned to decapitation Jijiji Ri, a high officer of the Court. Soon after the hour appointed for performance of the rite what was his Majesty's surprise to see calmly approaching the throne the man who should have been at that time ten minutes dead! "Seventeen hundred impossible dragons!" shouted the enraged monarch. "Did I not sentence you to stand in the market-place and have your head struck off by the public executioner at three o'clock? And is it not now 3:10?" "Son of a thousand illustrious deities," answered the condemned minister, "all that you say is so true that the truth is a lie in comparison. But your heavenly Majesty's sunny and vitalizing wishes have been pestilently disregarded. With joy I ran and placed my unworthy body in the market-place. The executioner appeared with his bare scimetar, ostentatiously whirled it in air, and then, tapping me lightly upon the neck, strode away, pelted by the populace, with whom I was ever a favorite. I am come to pray for justice upon his own dishonorable and treasonous head." "To what regiment of executioners does the black-boweled caitiff belong?" asked the Mikado. "To the gallant Ninety-eight Hundred and Thirty-seventh -- I know the man. His name is Sakko-Samshi." "Let him be brought before me," said the Mikado to an attendant, and a half-hour later the culprit stood in the Presence. "Thou bastard son of a three-legged hunchback without thumbs!" roared the sovereign -- "why didst thou but lightly tap the neck that it should have been thy pleasure to sever?" "Lord of Cranes of Cherry Blooms," replied the executioner, unmoved, "command him to blow his nose with his fingers." Being commanded, Jijiji Ri laid hold of his nose and trumpeted like an elephant, all expecting to see the severed head flung violently from him. Nothing occurred: the performance prospered peacefully to the close, without incident. All eyes were now turned on the executioner, who had grown as white as the snows on the summit of Fujiama. His legs trembled and his breath came in gasps of terror. "Several kinds of spike-tailed brass lions!" he cried; "I am a ruined and disgraced swordsman! I struck the villain feebly because in flourishing the scimetar I had accidentally passed it through my own neck! Father of the Moon, I resign my office." So saying, he gasped his top-knot, lifted off his head, and advancing to the throne laid it humbly at the Mikado's feet. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Annika Einhorn | Somebody else put them there. I do not know who that somebody else is, but somebody else put her body there. Because the body was found in his apartment doesn't mean that he put the body there. It was only that the body was found in his apartment. |
Carol Channing | You bare your heart and soul and body to possible axe murderers, to hitmen, to crazy people, to somebody. You bear it and do it anyway. It's the only way. And I have done it since the fourth grade. |
Christopher Reeve | It's funny how the psyche and the body shut down when you're in real crisis. Mine shut downs at odd moments anyway. |
Dennis Miller | The body of President Lincoln was barely even cold before someone got the idea to stamp his face on a circular piece of copper and sell it for a hundredth of a dollar. |
Hamid Karzai | Well, it's enough for us to do what we are primarily to do. That's to arrange an Afghan loya jurga, a body of Afghan people to decide the future of the country. |
Mitch Daniels | Let's see what direction the debate takes. We did not believe those were relatively as effective as the proposals in the package, which passed one body and got within a couple yards of the goal line in the Senate, in fact had the votes to pass. |
Naomi Campbell | Very much so and I think I wouldn't have wanted it before. I wouldn't have been right in my mind, in my body, in my soul. I feel now if God blesses me with those things, it's more right than it would have been before. |
Phyllis Diller | When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body, I wear snow chains to hold up my gown. |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | There is nothing that gives a Man consequence, and renders him fit for Command, like a support that renders him independent of every body but the State he Serves. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | While, then, the constituent body retains its present sound and healthful state everything will be safe. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The biases which may operate upon him will not be so likely to extend to the representatives of the people in that body. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | For in that body rests the best hope of our age for the assertion of that law by which all nations may live in dignity. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | That our delegates to the OAS, working with those of other members, strengthen that body as an instrument to preserve the peace and to prevent foreign domination anywhere in the Hemisphere. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Ahead now is a summit where freedom from the wants of the body can help fulfill the needs of the spirit. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Hard drugs, we all know, degrade the spirit as they destroy the body of their users. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We are told that on his body was found a diary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Body" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.74% of the time. "Body" is used about 25,081 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.74% | 25,016 | 335 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.2% | 49 | 48,677 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25,081 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "body" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Body | Last name | 1,000 | 11,915 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "body". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Bigvai | N/A | Biblical | In my body |
| Gozan | N/A | Biblical | Who nourisheth the body |
| Magpiash | N/A | Biblical | A body thrust hard together |
| Tebah | N/A | Biblical | Guarding of the body |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Hino Auto Body, Ltd. | United Kingdom | The Body Shop International PLC |
| USA | Blue Bird Body Company | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "body": a body of facts ♦ a large body of water ♦ a queer body ♦ acceleration of a falling body ♦ acetone body ♦ acute inclusion body encephalitis ♦ administrative body ♦ adult body ♦ adult female body ♦ adult male body ♦ advisory body ♦ After body ♦ ageing body ♦ aging body ♦ aircraft body ♦ asbestos body ♦ astral body ♦ basal body temperature ♦ basal body temperature method ♦ basal body temperature method of family planning ♦ black body ♦ black body locus ♦ bluff body ♦ Body acupuncture ♦ body and Blood of Christ ♦ body and soul ♦ body armor ♦ body armour ♦ body axes ♦ body bag ♦ body build ♦ body builder ♦ body building ♦ body building exercises ♦ Body Burden ♦ body carpet ♦ Body cavity ♦ body clock ♦ Body cloth ♦ Body clothes ♦ Body cloths ♦ Body coat ♦ body coil ♦ body color ♦ body colour ♦ Body composition ♦ Body Constitution ♦ body copy ♦ body core temperature ♦ body corporate ♦ body count ♦ body covering ♦ body double ♦ body English ♦ body fluid ♦ Body Fluid Compartments ♦ Body Fluids ♦ body forth ♦ body frame ♦ body guard ♦ body hair ♦ |