(n.) The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.
(n.) The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.
(n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.
(n.) A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.
(n.) A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.
(n.) A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.
(n.) Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an aeriform body.
(n.) Amount; quantity; extent.
(n.) That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.
(n.) The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.
(n.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.
(n.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.
(n.) Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.
(v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite shape; to embody.
Example Sentences:
(1) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
(2) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
(3) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(4) This effect was more marked in breast cancer patients which may explain our earlier finding that women with upper body fat localization are at increased risk for developing breast cancer.
(5) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(6) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(7) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(8) The 40 degrees C heating induced an increase in systolic, diastolic, average and pulse pressure at rectal temperature raised to 40 degrees C. Further growth of the body temperature was accompanied by a decrease in the above parameters.
(9) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(10) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
(11) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
(12) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
(13) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(14) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
(15) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
(16) The BMDs of the DM-HD group were lower in these areas and whole body than that in the non-DM,HD group.
(17) Our results show that large complex lipid bodies and extensive accumulations of glycogen are valuable indicators of a functionally suppressed chief cell in atrophic parathyroid glands.
(18) Abruptly changing cows from one feeding system to another did not influence milk yield, milk composition, or body weight gain.
(19) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
(20) Our previous study demonstrated that acupuncture increased pain threshold of the body, especially in the inflammatory area.
Disembodied
Definition:
(a.) Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
(imp. & p. p.) of Disembody
Example Sentences:
(1) We're not just disembodied wombs in jars, like in Tales of the Unexpected.
(2) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(3) Almost all elements of psychotic thought including beliefs in disembodied spirits, synchronicity (meaningful coincidences), and the possibility of non-material, actions-at-a-distance can be found among respected Western philosophers, psychiatrists, religious leaders and quantum physicists.
(4) The process of theorizing, creating theoretical explanations, and disseminating theoretical perspectives is most frequently discussed in terms of disembodied ideas.
(5) "I can't separate the business from the personal," he grumps over a shot of an oil painting depicting him as a jubilant 18th-century nobleman surrounded by his children's whooping disembodied heads.
(6) Oh, and not to forget Flying Cyrus – Wrecking Ball , which combines Flappy Bird and a disembodied, extra long-tongued Miley Cyrus head.
(7) Nasty Nick taken to task by socialist democracy BB1 Remember the days when Big Brother was a genuine social experiment and housemates attempted to solve their own problems without the disembodied voice stirring things up even more?
(8) Although the results for the head and back surfaces supported the notion of a "disembodied eye" behind the individual, other frames were needed: On the forward-facing surfaces below the waist, the prevailing perception was 180 degrees rotated, as if the subjects were looking at the surface by bending forward.
(9) They return with a new show that offers a romantic dinner for disembodied heads.
(10) Photograph: Sweet Toof “These walls were our playground,” says Sweet Toof , who has worked in the area for the past 15 years, adorning buildings with his trademark disembodied gnashers.
(11) Inevitably, Misterman has traces of Samuel Beckett's disembodied dramatic monologues, particularly Krapp's Last Tape , which Murphy describes as "definitely a distant cousin".
(12) Disembodied voices rear up on the soundtrack, each with their own pet theory, their own lurid conspiracy.
(13) And Blair's disembodied voice floating out of a speaker, still mouthing the buzzwords of globalisation.
(14) (The disembodied voices of Jedi ghosts do have a way of making it back into these films, after all.)
(15) Photograph: Sam Zhu Blessed with a naturally deep, expressive and erotic voice, Johansson turned in an extraordinarily deft and beautiful, yet totally disembodied, performance that won her the best actress award at the Rome film festival and has some critics calling for Oscar plaudits ( though the Golden Globes have already excluded her from contention ).
(16) The Star Wars movies have regularly witnessed C-3PO in various states of disembodiment.
(17) The resulting disembodiment of their mouth-guff will have an air of the supernatural or even divine.
(18) "You have got tax systems that are national, rooted in an old economy, and now we have got these new corporate Goliaths that operate in this disembodied way, particularly in the digital sector, who quite unsurprisingly think they can exploit the best deal for themselves in the cracks and crevices between the national tax systems.
(19) The sound of the future had arrived in that most cosmic of years, exactly as it might have been imagined by Stanley Kubrick: spacy, disembodied, oddly beautiful.
(20) Though I doubt they'd allow you on, I've never seen an contestant with a disembodied voice.