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单词 body
释义

body

See also: Body

English

Alternative forms

  • bodie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbɒdi/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbɑdi/, [ˈbɑɾi]
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒdi
  • Hyphenation: bod‧y
  • Homophone: bawdy (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

body (countable and uncountable, plural bodies)

  1. Physical frame.
    1. The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
      I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 1 Corinthians 12:15–20:
        If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
        And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
        If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
        But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
        And if they were all one member, where were the body?
        But now are they many members, yet but one body.
    2. The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. [from 13th c.]
      The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
    3. A corpse. [from 13th c.]
      Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
    4. (archaic or informal except in compounds) A person. [from 13th c.]
      • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
        Folio Society 1973, page 463:
        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 […]
      • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 28, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, OCLC 1000326417:
        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.
      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
        “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
      What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
    5. (sociology) A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed.
      • 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
        This, of course, was not about the State, but it was certainly an invasion: black bodies acting out in a public domain circumscribed by a racist culture. The Garvey movement presents an example of black bodies transgressing racialized spatial boundaries.
      • 2012, Trystan T. Cotten, Transgender Migrations (page 3)
        In doing so, Haritaworn also rethinks the marginality of transgender bodies and practices in queer movements and spaces.
      • 2016, Laura Harrison, Brown Bodies, White Babies (page 5)
        As the title suggests, this project is particularly interested in how race intersects with reproductive technologies—how brown bodies are deployed in the creation of white babies.
  2. Main section.
    1. The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
      The boxer took a blow to the body.
    2. The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. [from 11th c.]
      The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
    3. (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms. [from 16th c.]
      Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
    4. The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
    5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
    6. (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. [from 20th c.]
      In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
  3. Coherent group.
    1. A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
      I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
    2. An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]
      The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
    3. A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]
      We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  4. Material entity.
    1. Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
      All bodies are held together by internal forces.
    2. (uncountable) Substance; physical presence. [from 17th c.]
      • 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, OCLC 19736994; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, OCLC 258624721:
        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.
      We have given body to what was just a vague idea.
    3. (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]
      The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
    4. An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
      • 1806 June 26, Thomas Paine, "The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America", The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
        In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]
      • 2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues and Peter R. Cobbold, "World's largest extrusive body of sand?", Geology, volume 40, issue 5
        Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
      • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns
        The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
      The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
  5. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
    a nonpareil face on an agate body
    • 1992, Mary Kay Duggan, ‎Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (page 99)
      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.
  6. (geometry) A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:body
  • See also Thesaurus:corpse

Derived terms

  • acetone body
  • administrative body
  • advisory body
  • after body
  • amygaloid body
  • anococcygeal body
  • anti-shock body
  • anybody
  • appendant body
  • Aschoff body
  • asteroid body
  • astral body
  • auto body
  • Barr body
  • basal body
  • beach body
  • Beccarian body
  • Beltian body
  • bikini body
  • black body
  • bodice
  • bodily
  • body and soul
  • body armour
  • body art
  • body bag
  • body-blow
  • body blow
  • body-build
  • bodybuilder
  • body-building
  • bodybuilding
  • body butter
  • body cam
  • body camera
  • body catch
  • body cavity
  • body cavity search
  • body-centered
  • body check
  • body-check
  • body clock
  • body coat
  • body con
  • body-con
  • body conscious
  • body contact
  • body cord
  • body corporate
  • body count
  • body double
  • body English
  • body farm
  • body fascism
  • body fat
  • body fluid
  • body fossil
  • body gear
  • body hair
  • body heat
  • body horror
  • body-hugging
  • body image
  • body in black
  • body integrity identity disorder
  • body in white
  • body jacket
  • body kit
  • body language
  • body line
  • body linen
  • body lotion
  • body louse (Pediculus humanus)
  • body man
  • body mass
  • body mass index
  • body matter
  • body mechanics
  • body mic
  • body-mind
  • body modification
  • body odor
  • body odour
  • body of me
  • body of water
  • body of work
  • body painting
  • body-part
  • body part
  • body piercing
  • body pillow
  • body plan
  • body politic
  • body politique
  • body-positive
  • body positivity
  • body press
  • body pump
  • body scan
  • body servant
  • body-shame
  • body shaming
  • body-shaming
  • body shape
  • bodyshell
  • bodyship
  • body shop
  • body shopping
  • body shot
  • body slam
  • body-slam
  • body snatcher
  • body-snatcher
  • body spray
  • body stocking
  • bodysuit
  • body-surf
  • body surf
  • body swerve
  • body temperature
  • body text
  • body throw
  • body wash
  • body wave
  • body weight, bodyweight
  • body wire
  • bodywork
  • body-worn, bodyworn
  • body-worn video
  • body wrap
  • bog body
  • bone in one's body
  • busy body
  • Cajal body
  • car body
  • car-body van
  • celestial body
  • cell body
  • ciliary body
  • Cowdry body
  • dead body
  • Döhle body
  • dorsal body hormone
  • Dutcher body
  • electronic body music
  • every body
  • fat body
  • foreign body
  • foreign body
  • fruiting body
  • full-body
  • full body scanner
  • Golgi body
  • green body
  • habit of body
  • heavenly body
  • Heinz body
  • Herring body
  • hollow body
  • hollow body position
  • keep body and soul together
  • ketone body
  • know where the bodies are buried
  • legislative body
  • Lewy body
  • mamillary body
  • mammillary body
  • middle body
  • mind-body
  • move one's body
  • mushroom body
  • my body is ready
  • n-body problem
  • Nissl body
  • nobody
  • no body, no crime
  • nu body
  • nuclear body
  • occlusion body
  • Odland body
  • olivary body
  • ore body
  • out-of-body
  • out-of-body experience
  • out-of-the-body
  • overbody
  • over my dead body
  • Pappenheimer body
  • parasporal body
  • peak body
  • pearl body
  • Pick body
  • pineal body
  • pituitary body
  • planetary body
  • polar body
  • public body
  • rainbow body
  • real body
  • rigid body
  • rigid body dynamics
  • Russell body
  • Sears-Haack body
  • sell one's body
  • sense body
  • small Solar System body
  • some-body
  • somebody
  • some body
  • student body
  • subtile body
  • subtle body
  • swap body, swapbody
  • the other body
  • three body problem
  • throttle body
  • two-body problem
  • vitreous body
  • warm body
  • water body
  • wide-body
  • with every bone in one's body
  • Wolffian body
  • zebra body

Pages starting with “body”.

Translations

corpse — see corpse
torso — see torso
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See also

  • corporal
  • corporeal

Verb

body (third-person singular simple present bodies, present participle bodying, simple past and past participle bodied)

  1. To give body or shape to something.
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      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.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 175:
      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.
  2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
  3. (transitive) To embody.
    • 1955, Philip Larkin, Toads:
      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.
  4. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
  5. (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
  6. (transitive, slang, video games) to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by.
    • 2023, “Gaming at 24”, in hyperx‎ (comic):
      I keep getting bodied by kids half my age.

References

    Anagrams

    • BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by

    Czech

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbodɪ/
    • Rhymes: -odɪ
    • Hyphenation: bo‧dy

    Etymology 1

    From English body, bodysuit.

    Noun

    body n (indeclinable)

    1. bodysuit, leotard

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Noun

    body

    1. nominative/accusative/vocative/instrumental plural of bod

    Anagrams

    • doby

    Dutch

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English body.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.di/
    • Audio(file)
    • Hyphenation: bo‧dy

    Noun

    body m (plural body's, diminutive body'tje n)

    1. A leotard.
    2. Body, substance.

    Finnish

    Etymology

    From English body.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbody/, [ˈbo̞dy]
    • IPA(key): /ˈbodi/, [ˈbo̞di]
    • Rhymes: -ody
    • Homophone: bodi
    • Syllabification(key): bo‧dy

    Noun

    body

    1. snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)

    Declension

    Pronunciation ˈbody:

    Inflection of body (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation)
    nominativebodybodyt
    genitivebodynbodyjen
    partitivebodyabodyja
    illativebodyynbodyihin
    singularplural
    nominativebodybodyt
    accusativenom.bodybodyt
    gen.bodyn
    genitivebodynbodyjen
    partitivebodyabodyja
    inessivebodyssabodyissa
    elativebodystabodyista
    illativebodyynbodyihin
    adessivebodyllabodyilla
    ablativebodyltabodyilta
    allativebodyllebodyille
    essivebodynabodyina
    translativebodyksibodyiksi
    instructive—bodyin
    abessivebodyttabodyitta
    comitative—bodyineen
    Possessive forms of body (type valo)
    possessorsingularplural
    1st personbodynibodymme
    2nd personbodysibodynne
    3rd personbodynsa

    Italian

    Etymology

    Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English bodysuit.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.di/
    • Rhymes: -ɔdi
    • Hyphenation: bò‧dy

    Noun

    body m (invariable)

    1. leotard
      Synonym: calzamaglia

    Further reading

    • body in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

    Polish

    Etymology

    Borrowed from English body(suit).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈbɔ.dɨ/
    • Audio(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɔdɨ
    • Syllabification: bo‧dy

    Noun

    body n (indeclinable)

    1. bodysuit, leotard

    Further reading

    • body in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
    • body in Polish dictionaries at PWN

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from English body.

    Noun

    body n (plural body-uri)

    1. bodysuit

    Declension

    Declension of body
    singularplural
    indefinite articulationdefinite articulationindefinite articulationdefinite articulation
    nominative/accusative(un) bodybody-ul(niște) body-uribody-urile
    genitive/dative(unui) bodybody-ului(unor) body-uribody-urilor
    vocativebody-ulebody-urilor

    Scots

    Alternative forms

    • bodie

    Etymology

    From Middle English body, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ, bodeġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”).

    Noun

    body (plural bodies)

    1. body
    2. person, human being

    Spanish

    Noun

    body m (plural bodys or bodies)

    1. Alternative spelling of bodi

    Further reading

    • “body”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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