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English

Alternative forms

• bodie (obsolete)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?di/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?di/, [?b??i]
• Rhymes: -?di
• 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.

   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, Tom Jones, 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, 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.

      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, Virginia Woolf, 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.

   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

Pages starting with “body”.

Translations

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.

   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. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

2. To construct the bodywork of a car.
3. (transitive) To embody.
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.

References

Anagrams

• BYOD, Boyd, Doby, do by

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bod?/
• Rhymes: -od?
• Hyphenation: bo?dy

Etymology 1

From English body, bodysuit.

Noun

body n (indeclinable)

1. bodysuit, leotard

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

body

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

Anagrams

• doby

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English body.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.di/
• Hyphenation: bo?dy

Noun

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

1. A leotard.
2. Body, substance.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?body/, [?bo?dy]
• IPA^(key): /?bodi/, [?bo?di]
• Rhymes: -ody
• Homophone: bodi
• Syllabification: bo?dy

Noun

body

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

Declension

Pronunciation ?body:

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?.di/

Noun

body m (invariable)

1. leotard

   Synonym: calzamaglia

Further reading

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

Scots

Alternative forms

• bodie

Etymology

From Middle English body, bodi?, from Old English bodi?, bode? (“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. bodysuit

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin m?bilis (“easy to be moved, moveable”), from move? (“move”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??ba?l/, /?m??b??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mo?b?l/, /?mo?bil/, /?mo?ba?l/, sculpture always IPA^(key): /?mo?bil/

Adjective

mobile (comparative more mobile, superlative most mobile)

1. Capable of being moved, especially on wheels.

   Antonyms: fixed, immobile, sessile, stationary

2. Pertaining to or by agency of mobile phones.
3. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom.

4. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

   Synonyms: excitable, fickle

5. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind.

6. (biology) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mobile (plural mobiles)

2. (art) A kinetic sculpture or decorative arrangement made of items hanging so that they can move independently from each other.
4. (telephony, Britain) Ellipsis of mobile phone

   Synonym: cell phone
5. (uncountable, Internet) The internet accessed via mobile devices.

6. Something that can move.

Translations

Related terms

Further reading

• mobile in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• mobile in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• mobile at OneLook Dictionary Search
• mobile on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mobile phone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• mobile (sculpture) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bemoil, emboil, emboli

Danish

Adjective

mobile

1. definite of mobil
2. plural of mobil

Finnish

Etymology

< English mobile

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mobile/, [?mo?bile?] (nalle-type declension)
• IPA^(key): /?mobile?/, [?mo?bile?(?)] (hame-type declension)
• Rhymes: -obile
• Syllabification: mo?bi?le

Noun

mobile

1. mobile (kinetic sculpture)

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?bilis. Doublet of meuble.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?.bil/

Adjective

mobile (plural mobiles)

1. mobile
2. moving
3. movable

Derived terms

Noun

mobile m (plural mobiles)

1. (physics) moving body
2. mobile (decoration)
3. motive (for an action, for a crime)
4. mobile phone; Ellipsis of téléphone mobile

   Synonyms: cell, téléphone cellulaire, cellulaire, téléphone mobile, téléphone portable, portable

Further reading

• “mobile” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

mobile

1. inflection of mobil:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin m?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.bi.le/
• Rhymes: -?bile

Adjective

mobile (plural mobili)

1. movable, mobile

   Antonym: immobile

2. moving

Noun

mobile m (plural mobili)

1. (in the singular) piece of furniture (item of furniture)
2. (in the plural) furniture

   Synonyms: mobilia, mobilio, arredamento

3. (heraldry) charge
4. mobile (cellular phone)

   Synonyms: cellulare, telefonino

   Antonym: fisso

Related terms

Anagrams

• emboli

Latin

Adjective

m?bile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of m?bilis

References

• mobile in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

mobile

1. definite singular of mobil
2. plural of mobil

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

mobile

1. definite singular of mobil
2. plural of mobil

Swedish

Adjective

mobile

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of mobil.