Vi fant 20 definisjoner av body på engelsk.
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| 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 a place for public (especially Christian) worship; "the church was empty" | ||
| college of cardinals, sacred college (Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes | ||
| governing body, governance, administration, brass, establishment, organisation, organization the act of meting out justice according to the law | ||
| corps an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support | ||
| 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 building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" | ||
| college a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed | ||
| university establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching | ||
| faculty, staff one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | ||
| representation an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent | ||
| colony, settlement a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together | ||
| 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 activity of leading; "his leadership inspired the team" | ||
| militia civilians trained as soldiers but not part of the regular army | ||
| 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 migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there) | ||
| 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 sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something | ||
| venire, panel sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something | ||
| enrollment, registration the act of enrolling | ||
| vote the opinion of a group as determined by voting; "they put the question to a vote" | ||
| body - the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being); "he felt as if his whole body were on fire" | ||
| organic structure, physical structure | ||
| natural object an object occurring naturally; not made by man | ||
| animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna, creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | ||
| 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, physical body, material body, human body, build, physique, anatomy, soma, flesh, chassis, shape, frame, figure, 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 | ||
| caput, head a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure; "the caput humeri is the head of the humerus which fits into a cavity in the scapula" | ||
| cervix, neck necklike opening to the uterus | ||
| torso, trunk, body the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" | ||
| leg (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack | ||
| arm the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person | ||
| crotch, fork the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk | ||
| body - a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person; "they found the body in the lake" | ||
| dead body | ||
| 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" | ||
| 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 (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist | ||
| body - the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" | ||
| 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" | ||
| bodywork the work of making or repairing vehicle bodies | ||
| body - the central message of a communication; "the body of the message was short" | ||
| subject matter, message, content, substance a communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled; "he sent a three-word message" | ||
| yarn, narration, recital (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | ||
| body - the main mass of a thing | ||
| body - a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents" | ||
| body - the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" | ||
| torso, trunk | ||
| body part any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity | ||
| organic structure, physical structure, body the external structure of a vehicle; "the body of the car was badly rusted" | ||
| midriff, diaphragm a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" | ||
| shoulder a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road; "the car pulled off onto the shoulder" | ||
| articulatio humeri, shoulder joint, shoulder a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road; "the car pulled off onto the shoulder" | ||
| serratus, serratus muscles any of several muscles of the trunk | ||
| side an extended outer surface of an object; "he turned the box over to examine the bottom side"; "they painted all four sides of the house" | ||
| pectus, thorax, chest part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs | ||
| midsection, midriff, middle the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" | ||
| waistline, waist the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips | ||
| paunch, belly the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish | ||
| love handle, spare tire excess fat around the waistline | ||
| hip either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh | ||
| haunch the loin and leg of a quadruped | ||
| abdomen, stomach, venter, belly the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis | ||
| dorsum, back the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part); "the dorsum of the foot" | ||
| tush, derriere, keister, buttocks, nates, buns, prat, behind, rear end, tooshie, hind end, posterior, hindquarters, arse, backside, fanny, fundament, tail end, stern, rump, bum, ass, rear, can, bottom, tail, seat, butt 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 | ||
| body - 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" | ||
| consistency, consistence, eubstance | ||
| property any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props" | ||
| thick abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust" | ||
| thin lacking excess flesh; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look"-Shakespeare | ||
| gaseousness having the consistency of a gas | ||
| 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 quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail" | ||
| softness a disposition to be lenient in judging others; "softness is not something permitted of good leaders" | ||
| 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 | ||
| body - a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) | ||
| soundbox | ||
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| body - invest with or as with a body; give body to | ||
| personify | ||
| embody, personify, be represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" | ||
