body
part of speech
noun (body, bodies)
meaning for a pupil
1) All of a person or an animal: head, arms, legs and everything inside. tree →
2) The main part of a person or animal, not the head, arms or legs. tree →
3) A dead person or animal. tree →
4) The main part of something, like the body of a letter or a car. tree →
5) An object or a group: a body of water, a heavenly body, the student body. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, the human body has parts and systems (bones, muscles, heart, lungs, brain) that work together; healthy food, sleep and exercise keep it strong. In safety: your body belongs to you; private parts are private. In science, "body" can mean any object, like a planet. Phrases: body parts, body of water, human body, body language, somebody, nobody.
examples
- The heart pumps blood around the body. tree →
- Exercise keeps your body strong. tree →
- The body of an insect has three parts. tree →
- Your body belongs to you. tree →
- A lake is a body of water. tree →
- Write the body of your letter here. tree →
- Drink water to help your body cool down. tree →
- The car's body was painted red. tree →
- She was wriggling her body in distress. tree →
note
Plural "bodies" (y → ies). "Somebody", "nobody", "anybody", "everybody" mean a person. "Body language" means messages we send with face and movement. Your body needs sleep to grow.
In the corpora
- A scan picture is made by a machine that uses sound waves to see the baby inside the body without hurting.
- A local anaesthetic only numbs one part of the body, and the person stays awake.
- When a person dies, their body stops working for ever; it is not sleep, and they do not come back.
- Being dead means the body has stopped working for ever; it is not the same as sleep.
- They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «body» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.