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body  

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  • NomPLbodies
    1. Physical frame.
      1. I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
      2. The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
      3. Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
      4. 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 [...]
    2. Main section.
      1. The boxer took a blow to the body.
      2. The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.
      3. Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.
      4. In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
    3. Coherent group.
      1. I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
      2. The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
      3. We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
    4. Material entity.
      1. All bodies are held together by internal forces.
      2. 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.
      3. The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
      4. 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 [...]
    5. (printing) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated).
      1. a nonpareil face on an agate body
    6. (geometry) a three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone.
    7. VerbeSGbodiesPRbodyingPT, PPbodied
      1. To give body or shape to something.
        1. To construct the bodywork of a car.
          1. VT To embody.
          2. Plus d'exemples
            1. Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
              • “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.
              • Though the Constitution grants Iraq’s only elected body wide powers to pass laws and investigate, sectarian divisions and the need for a twothirds majority in some cases have often led to deadlock.
              • Her short stout body was packed into pale pink polyester pants and a matching buttonfront vest.
            2. Utilisé au début de la phrase
              • Body fat content: retroperitoneal fat (retroperi), inguinal fat, periadrenal fat and armpit fat.
            3. Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
              • The fabric is wicking perspiration away from the body.
              • He smelled of beer and cigarette smoke and his own body.
              • The stocky Apache released his burden and sank to his knees, his head bending forward and thrusting into the sand as the pain from the gut-shots began to course through his body.

          Meaning of body for the defined word.

          Grammaticalement, ce mot "body" est un nom, plus spécifiquement, un noms dénombrable et un singularia tantum. C'est aussi un verbe, plus spécifiquement, un verbes transitif.
          • Partie du discours Hiérarchie
            1. Noms
              • Noms Dénombrable
                • Singularia tantum
                  • Noms Indénombrable
                • Verbes
                  • Verbes transitifs
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                1. en bodyguard
                2. en bodye
                3. en bodyes
                4. en bodying
                5. en bodyism
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