Torso

Definition: Torso

Torso

Noun

1. The body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "torso" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Etymology: Torso \Tor"so\, noun; plural English Torsos, Italian Torsi. [Italian torso, probably from Latin thyrsus a stalk, stem, thyrsus, Greek; compare to Old High German torso, turso, a stalk, stem, German dorsche a cabbage stalk. Compare to Thyrsus, Truss.]. (references)

Synonyms: Torso

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.

Crosswords: Torso

Dutch (trunk), Esperanto (trunk), German (skeleton, torso, trunk), Italian (hull, rump, torso, trunk), Portuguese (torso), Serbo-Croatian (torso), Spanish (torso), Swedish (torso).

Neddy, I've had just about all I can take of Homer Simpson's torso. I'll go get some hot dogs (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Yeah so if you could stop crushing her to your manly torso plate for a while what say we start the repairs (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

My arms will end up at Essex, my torso in Norfolk, and my genitalia stuck up in a tree somewhere in Rutland (The Black Adder; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Rowan Atkinson)

Kickin' with your torso (Rock DJ; performing artist: Robbie Williams)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• I Love a Sunburnt Torso (reference)

• The Torso in the Town (reference)

• The Torso Killer (reference)

• The Torso Murder: The Untold Story of Evelyn Dick (reference)

• Torso (reference)

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Music

• 3 Leg Torso (reference)

• Torso (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• WMF Torso 20-Piece Set Stainless Steel Flatware (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Tripoli, Libya. A classic Roman head, blasted from the torso, resting amid the sandbags. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gaston Lachaise, exhibition at Museum of Modern Art. Torso detail. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Joad carefully drew the torso of a woman in the dirt, breasts, hips, pelvis

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Large motor neurons have long axons that control skeletal muscles in the neck, torso, and limbs. (references)

The pain may be localized in the lower back or may consist of sharp, shooting sensations that radiate down the legs or arms or around the torso. (references)

In spinal cord injury, the destruction of nerve fibers that carry motor signals from the brain to the torso and limbs leads to muscle paralysis. (references)

Business

Abdominal (Back & Neck) machines, upper and lower torso machines, and 45-degree bench presses are the basic elements of a gym, using mechanics to exercise different muscle groups. (references)

Human Rights

Nigeria

The practice of "necklacing" criminals (placing a gasoline-soaked tire around a victim's neck or torso and then igniting it, burning the victim to death) caught in the act occurred in several cities. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "torso": actual torso angle ♦ design torso angle ♦ head and torso simulator ♦ skeletal torso harness ♦ torso harness ♦ torso suit. Additional references.

Beginning with "torso": torso-arm, torso-line.

Ending with "torso": female-torso, head-to-torso.

Albanian

trung (body, bole, log, lump, opaque, skid, stem, stock, stump, trunk), bust (bodice, bust). (various references)

Arabic 

‏جذع التمثال, ‏جذع الإ نسان. (various references)

Bulgarian 

труп (body, cadaver, carcase, corpse, corpus, log, nog, stiff, subject, trunk), торсо (trunk), осакатена работа, незавършена работа. (various references)

Chinese 

身 (body, life, person, pregnancy, status, suit), 胴 (large intestine), 軀干 (trunk). (various references)

Czech

trup (body, Hull, shell, trunk), torzo (fragment). (various references)

Danish

torsoreferencelinje (torso reference line), torsoens armreferencelinje (torso-arm reference line), underkrop (lower torso), overkropssele (upper torso webbing), kropslinje (torso-line), kroppens konstruktivt bestemte hældningsvinkel (design torso angle), kroppens faktiske hældningsvinkel (actual torso angle), individuelt tilpasset seletøj (skeletal torso harness, torso suit), hoved-og torsosimulator (HATS, head and torso simulator), brystharness (torso harness). (various references)

Dutch

torsoreferentielijn (torso reference line), werkelijke bovenlichaamshoek (actual torso angle), schoudergordel (LAT: cingulum extremitatis superioris, shoulder girdle, upper torso webbing), romptuig (skeletal torso harness, torso harness, torso suit), reservetank onder stoel (torso tank), referentielijn van de torso-arm (torso-arm reference line), ontwerp-bovenlichaamshoek (design torso angle), onderlijf (abdomen), onderlichaam (lower torso), hoofd-en torso-simulator (HATS, head and torso simulator), bovenlichaamslijn (torso-line). (various references)

Farsi 

پیچ یاتاب خوردن , تاب گشت , خاصیت تاب گشت . (various references)

Finnish

rintaosan todellinen kulma (actual torso angle), rintaosan suunnittelukulma (design torso angle), rintaosan linja (torso-line), pää-ja vartalosimulaattori (HATS, head and torso simulator), ohjaajakohtaiset istuinvyöt (skeletal torso harness, torso suit), HATS (HATS, head and torso simulator). (various references)

French

torse, buste. (various references)

German

torso (skeleton, trunk), rumpf (body, carcass, fuselage, hulk, Hull, nacelle, shell, trunk), körper (bodies, body, clod, field, flesh, Hull, person, solid, systemic). (various references)

Greek 

κορμόσ γλυπτική, κορμόσ του σώματοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

פלג גוף עליון, גוף נטול ראש וגפים, גו (back, trunk), טורסו. (various references)

Hungarian

torzó (trunk), test (body, corpus, frame, hull, mortal clay, shell, soma). (various references)

Indonesian

badan (agency, board, body, corporation, group). (various references)

Irish

cabhail (body, body; torso). (various references)

Italian

tronco (body, bole, frustum, log, stem, stock, tree-trunk, trunk), torso (hull, rump, trunk), busto (body, bust, corset, girdle, half length portrait, trunk). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

胴体 (body, trunk). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トルソー , くかん (bitter suffering, body, coldest time of the year, physique, section, trunk), どうたい (as one flesh or body, body, conductor, movement, moving body, simultaneously, trunk, vital), どうなか (trunk). (various references)

Manx

cashtal y corp, callin (body, constitution, human carcase). (various references)

Pig Latin

orsotay.(various references)

Portuguese

torso. (various references)

Romanian

trunchi (block, frustrum, shaft, shank, stem, stock, stool, stub, stump, trunk), tors (purr, spun, trunk), operã neterminatã, bust (breasts, bust, half-length portrait). (various references)

Russian 

торс (torsi, trunk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trup bez udova, torzo (bole, trunk), torso. (various references)

Spanish

torso. (various references)

Swedish

kropp (anatomy, body, corpus, dust, trunk). (various references)

Turkish

yarım kalmış çalışma, kolsuz ve başsız gövde, heykel gövdesi. (various references)

Turkmen 

korpus (r) (body, trunk), gцwre (trunk). (various references)

Ukrainian

уламок (chip, fragmemt, odd-come-short, piece), фрагмент (fragmemt, sippet, snippet), тулуб (body, carcass, trunk), торс. (various references)

thyrsus. (various references)

torso. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "torso": torsos. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Torso" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Orso, otso, tdrs, tercom, teros, Thorsvoe, Tiousso, Toorop, torbs, Torbsy, tores, torio, Tornoe, Tornsk, toro, toros, toroy, Torpo, torro, Torrs, torrso, tors, torsen, torsk, torsor, Torzhok, tosa, Tosio, toso, tosoh, tosot, tosso, Tresgoz, trodo, trosp, truso, Trusov, Tsouros, turse, Tvrtko, Tworkov. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: roost, roots, rotos, toros.

-1 letter: oots, orts, root, roto, rots, soot, sort, toro, tors.

-2 letters: oot, ors, ort, rot, sot, too, tor.

-3 letters: or, os, so, to.

+1 letter: motors, robots, roosts, rotors, strook, torose, torous, torsos, troops.

+2 letters: booster, cohorts, consort, cooters, crotons, disroot, doctors, enroots, foetors, footers, gosport, grottos, hooters, hotrods, looters, mooters, nitroso, octrois, orators, outrows, outsoar, poorest, protons, provost, ratoons, reboots, reshoot, retools, riotous, risotto, roosted, rooster, rooters, scooter, sheroot, shooter, soother, sootier, stooker, stooper, thorons, toolers, tooters, toreros, toroids, torpors, torsion, trogons, tsooris, unroots, uproots.