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| n. (body) | 1. body, organic structure, physical structure | the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being).; "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" |
| ~ animal, animate being, beast, creature, brute, fauna | a living organism characterized by voluntary movement. |
| ~ natural object | an object occurring naturally; not made by man. |
| ~ human, human being, homo, man | any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage. |
| ~ life form | the characteristic bodily form of a mature organism. |
| ~ bod, chassis, human body, material body, physical body, anatomy, build, figure, flesh, physique, frame, shape, soma, form | alternative names for the body of a human being.; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak" |
| ~ live body | the body of a living animal or person. |
| ~ body substance | the substance of the body. |
| ~ articulatory system | the system of joints in the body. |
| ~ bodily cavity, cavum, cavity | (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body. |
| ~ digestive system, gastrointestinal system, systema alimentarium, systema digestorium | the system that makes food absorbable into the body. |
| ~ endocrine system | the system of glands that produce endocrine secretions that help to control bodily metabolic activity. |
| ~ lymphatic system, systema lymphaticum | the interconnected system of spaces and vessels between body tissues and organs by which lymph circulates throughout the body. |
| ~ musculoskeletal system | the system of muscles and tendons and ligaments and bones and joints and associated tissues that move the body and maintain its form. |
| ~ nervous system, systema nervosum | the sensory and control apparatus consisting of a network of nerve cells. |
| ~ respiratory system, systema respiratorium | the system for taking in oxygen and giving off carbon dioxide; in terrestrial animals this is accomplished by breathing. |
| ~ sensory system | the body's system of sense organs. |
| ~ vascular system | the vessels and tissue that carry or circulate fluids such as blood or lymph or sap through the body of an animal or plant. |
| ~ cardiovascular system, circulatory system | the organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body. |
| ~ head, caput | the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains.; "he stuck his head out the window" |
| ~ cervix, neck | the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body.; "he admired her long graceful neck"; "the horse won by a neck" |
| ~ torso, trunk, body | the body excluding the head and neck and limbs.; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" |
| ~ leg | a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle. |
| ~ arm | a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb. |
| ~ crotch, fork | the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk. |
| ~ pressure point | any of several points on the body where the pulse can be felt and where pressure on an underlying artery will control bleeding from that artery at a more distal point. |
| n. (group) | 2. body | a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity.; "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body" |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ public | a body of people sharing some common interest.; "the reading public" |
| ~ christendom, christianity | the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia).; "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom" |
| ~ church | the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church.; "our church is hosting a picnic next week" |
| ~ college of cardinals, sacred college | (Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes. |
| ~ governance, governing body, organisation, administration, brass, establishment, organization | the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something.; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment" |
| ~ corps | a body of people associated together.; "diplomatic corps" |
| ~ constituency | the body of voters who elect a representative for their area. |
| ~ electoral college | the body of electors who formally elect the United States president and vice president. |
| ~ school | a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers.; "the Venetian school of painting" |
| ~ college | the body of faculty and students of a college. |
| ~ university | the body of faculty and students at a university. |
| ~ faculty, staff | the body of teachers and administrators at a school.; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university" |
| ~ representation | a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency.; "a Congressional vacancy occurred in the representation from California" |
| ~ colony, settlement | a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government.; "the American colony in Paris" |
| ~ ulama, ulema | the body of Mullahs (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and Islamic law) who are the interpreters of Islam's sciences and doctrines and laws and the chief guarantors of continuity in the spiritual and intellectual history of the Islamic community. |
| ~ leaders, leadership | the body of people who lead a group.; "the national leadership adopted his plan" |
| ~ militia | the entire body of physically fit civilians eligible by law for military service.; "their troops were untrained militia"; "Congress shall have power to provide for calling forth the militia" |
| ~ membership, rank | the body of members of an organization or group.; "they polled their membership"; "they found dissension in their own ranks"; "he joined the ranks of the unemployed" |
| ~ occupational group, vocation | a body of people doing the same kind of work. |
| ~ opposition | a body of people united in opposing something. |
| ~ immigration | the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval.; "the increased immigration strengthened the colony" |
| ~ inspectorate | a body of inspectors. |
| ~ jury | a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law. |
| ~ panel | a group of people gathered for a special purpose as to plan or discuss an issue or judge a contest etc. |
| ~ venire, panel | (law) a group of people summoned for jury service (from whom a jury will be chosen). |
| ~ enrollment, registration | the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time. |
| ~ vote | a body of voters who have the same interests.; "he failed to get the Black vote" |
| ~ diaspora | the body of Jews (or Jewish communities) outside Palestine or modern Israel. |
| n. (body) | 3. body, dead body | a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person.; "they found the body in the lake" |
| ~ natural object | an object occurring naturally; not made by man. |
| ~ carcase, carcass | the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food. |
| ~ carrion | the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food. |
| ~ roadkill | the dead body of an animal that has been killed on a road by a vehicle.; "vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill" |
| ~ cadaver, corpse, remains, stiff, clay | the dead body of a human being.; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" |
| ~ mummy | a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt). |
| n. (object) | 4. body | an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects.; "heavenly body" |
| ~ natural object | an object occurring naturally; not made by man. |
| ~ chromosome | a threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear order.; "humans have 22 chromosome pairs plus two sex chromosomes" |
| ~ cellular inclusion, inclusion body, inclusion | any small intracellular body found within another (characteristic of certain diseases).; "an inclusion in the cytoplasm of the cell" |
| ~ mass | a body of matter without definite shape.; "a huge ice mass" |
| ~ subatomic particle, particle | a body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensions. |
| n. (body) | 5. body, torso, trunk | the body excluding the head and neck and limbs.; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" |
| ~ body, organic structure, physical structure | the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being).; "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" |
| ~ body part | any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity. |
| ~ diaphragm, midriff | (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration. |
| ~ shoulder | the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm. |
| ~ articulatio humeri, shoulder joint, shoulder | a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula. |
| ~ serratus, serratus muscles | any of several muscles of the trunk. |
| ~ side | either the left or right half of a body.; "he had a pain in his side" |
| ~ chest, pectus, thorax | the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates. |
| ~ midriff, midsection, middle | the middle area of the human torso (usually in front).; "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" |
| ~ waist, waistline | the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips. |
| ~ paunch, belly | a protruding abdomen. |
| ~ love handle, spare tire | excess fat around the waistline. |
| ~ hip | either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh. |
| ~ haunch | the hip and buttock and upper thigh in human beings. |
| ~ abdomen, belly, stomach, venter | the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis. |
| ~ back, dorsum | the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine.; "his back was nicely tanned" |
| ~ arse, ass, behind, buns, buttocks, derriere, fanny, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear end, tooshie, tush, backside, fundament, seat, bottom, rump, stern, tail end, bum, butt, can, rear, tail | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" |
| ~ buttock, cheek | either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump. |
| ~ loins | the region of the hips and groin and lower abdomen. |
| n. (group) | 6. body | a collection of particulars considered as a system.; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents" |
| ~ system, scheme | a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole.; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" |
| n. (attribute) | 7. body, consistence, consistency, eubstance | the property of holding together and retaining its shape.; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" |
| ~ gaseousness | having the consistency of a gas. |
| ~ property | a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class.; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" |
| ~ viscosity, viscousness | resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow). |
| ~ thickness | resistance to flow. |
| ~ thinness | a consistency of low viscosity.; "he disliked the thinness of the soup" |
| ~ hardness | the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale. |
| ~ softness | the property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or molded. |
| ~ breakableness | the consistency of something that breaks under pressure. |
| ~ unbreakableness | a consistency of something that does not break under pressure. |
| ~ porosity, porousness | the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids. |
| ~ solidity, solidness | the consistency of a solid. |
| n. (communication) | 8. body | the central message of a communication.; "the body of the message was short" |
| ~ subject matter, content, message, substance | what a communication that is about something is about. |
| ~ recital, yarn, narration | the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events.; "his narration was hesitant" |
| ~ speech, address | the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience.; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" |
| n. (attribute) | 9. body | the main mass of a thing. |
| ~ mass | the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field. |
| n. (artifact) | 10. body, soundbox | a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin). |
| ~ cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator | a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves. |
| n. (artifact) | 11. body | the external structure of a vehicle.; "the body of the car was badly rusted" |
| ~ bodywork | the exterior body of a motor vehicle. |
| ~ fuselage | the central body of an airplane that is designed to accommodate the crew and passengers (or cargo). |
| ~ structure, construction | a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts.; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" |
| v. (stative) | 12. body, personify | invest with or as with a body; give body to. |
| ~ embody, personify, be | represent, as of a character on stage.; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" |
| trunk | | |
| n. (plant) | 1. bole, tree trunk, trunk | the main stem of a tree; usually covered with bark; the bole is usually the part that is commercially useful for lumber. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| ~ stalk, stem | a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ. |
| ~ bark | tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. trunk | luggage consisting of a large strong case used when traveling or for storage. |
| ~ baggage, luggage | cases used to carry belongings when traveling. |
| ~ footlocker, locker | a trunk for storing personal possessions; usually kept at the foot of a bed (as in a barracks). |
| ~ trunk lid | hinged lid for a trunk. |
| n. (artifact) | 3. automobile trunk, luggage compartment, trunk | compartment in an automobile that carries luggage or shopping or tools.; "he put his golf bag in the trunk" |
| ~ boot | British term for the luggage compartment in a car. |
| ~ auto, automobile, car, motorcar, machine | a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine.; "he needs a car to get to work" |
| ~ compartment | a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area. |
| n. (animal) | 4. proboscis, trunk | a long flexible snout as of an elephant. |
| ~ neb, snout | a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose. |
| ~ elephant | five-toed pachyderm. |
| ~ mammoth | any of numerous extinct elephants widely distributed in the Pleistocene; extremely large with hairy coats and long upcurved tusks. |
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