Noun

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Physical frame.

# The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.

I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.

# The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.

The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.

# A corpse.

Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.

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#* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 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), (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) , Chapter 28:

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.

#* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“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?

Main section.

# The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).

The boxer took a blow to the body .

# The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.

The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the body of the car was in remarkable shape.

# (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.

Penny was in the scullery, pressing the body of her new dress.

# The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on.

# A bodysuit.

# (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.

In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.

Coherent group.

# A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.

I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.

# An organisation, company or other authoritative group.

The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.

# A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.

We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.

Material entity.

# Any physical object or material thing.

All bodies are held together by internal forces.

# (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.

#* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1

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.

# (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).

The red wine, sadly, lacked body .

# 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.

The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.

(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

Noun

(social) Effectiveness.

# (countable) Capability or influence.

#*

An incident which happened about this time will set the characters of these two lads more fairly before the discerning reader than is in the power of the longest dissertation.

#*

Thwackum, on the contrary, maintained that the human mind, since the fall, was nothing but a sink of iniquity, till purified and redeemed by grace.The favourite phrase of the former, was the natural beauty of virtue; that of the latter, was the divine power of grace.

#* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. […]”}}

#* 1998 , (Eckhart Tolle), (The Power of Now)

Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power , and reality of the eternal present.

# Control, particularly legal or political (jurisdiction).

#* 1949', Eric Blair, aka '''(George Orwell) , ''(Nineteen Eighty-Four)

The Party seeks power' entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in '''power'''. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only '''power''', pure '''power'''. [...] We know that no one ever seizes '''power''' with the intention of relinquishing it. '''Power''' is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of '''power''' is ' power .

#* 2005 , Columbia Law Review , April

In the face of expanding federal power , California in particular struggled to maintain control over its Chinese population.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.}}

# (chiefly in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.

# An influential nation, company, or other such body.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal

, volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers , India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}

(physical, uncountable) Effectiveness.

# Physical force or strength.

# Electricity or a supply of electricity.

#* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=

, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad, chapter=4 citation , passage=“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Out of the gloom , passage=[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.}}

# A measure of the rate of doing work or transferring energy.

# A rate to magnify an optical image by a lens or mirror.

(mathematics) Effectiveness.

# A product of equal factors. Notation and usage: x''^''n'', read as "''x'' to the power of ''n''" or "''x'' to the ''n''th power", denotes ''x'' × ''x'' × ... × ''x'', in which ''x'' appears ''n'' times, where ''n is called the exponent; the definition is extended to non-integer and complex exponents.

# (set theory) Cardinality.

# (statistics) The probability that a statistical test will reject the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

(biblical, in plural) In Christian angelology, an intermediate level of angels, ranked above archangels, but exact position varies by classification scheme.