(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.
Shimmy
Definition:
(n.) A chemise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having given his marker the slip, Sturridge picked up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, turned Antonio Luna inside-out, then somehow shimmied his way around Brad Guzan and fired the ball high into the roof of the net in order to avoid two defenders who'd rushed back to man the line.
(2) 14 min: Zabaleta gets on the end of a beautifully angled David Silva pass on the right-hand side of the Dortmund penalty area and tries to shimmy and wriggle his way towards goal from the goal-line.
(3) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(4) 3.34pm BST 34 mins: Brilliant build up play by Suarez outside the box, as he drops a shoulder to create some space, then shimmies past one defender, but his left-footed shot is scuffed and straight to Krul for an easy save.
(5) The cerebral midfielder shimmies this way and that, hoping to prise United open somehow, but the red line holds firm.
(6) The man whose idea of small talk was once endogenous growth theory shimmied round the dance floor, swayed his hips and ran his hands up and down his (strangely non-shrinking) body, mouthing the words: “Oooooooooooh, sexy laaaydeee …” We all had high hopes for Balls on Strictly, but none of us could have ever predicted these dizzying highs – not even his wife Yvette Cooper , who watches every week with the expression of a mother watching her over-enthusiastic toddler at a dancing display.
(7) He dinks into Vargas, who looks to shimmy a yard of space, but Javi Martinez's tackle bobbles a foot or so wide.
(8) 65 min: Di Maria dances, shimmies, shakes and makes other disco-friendly movements down the right, before cutting inside, romping into the area, and whacking a low shot goalwards.
(9) Trochowski shimmies down the left and lifts a cross into the centre for Klose, who sidefoots a dropping ball into the bottom-left corner.
(10) ET21: Shimmying down the left, Kaka tries to muscle his way around the the back of the Bayern Munich defence.
(11) As Kalaba had a free-kick glance just wide off Cheik Tioté, there were shimmies and shuffles all over, almost as though they were determined to rile Ivory Coast.
(12) I can see myself speaking – it’s humiliating.” With that, she shimmies away to the far end of the couch.
(13) His songs were the soundtrack to my life: a quavering New York voice with little range singing songs of alienation and despair, with flashes of impossible hope and of those tiny, perfect days and nights we want to last for ever, important because they are so finite and so few; songs filled with people, some named, some anonymous, who strut and stagger and flit and shimmy and hitch-hike into the limelight and out again.
(14) They came in all different price points and in all different styles: round elephants reminiscent of French cartoons from the 1960s, and strange pseudo-sexual shimmies, and with 1920s straw boater hats leading parades.
(15) Those pre-ordering now get an instant download of the excellent Almost Like the Blues , a sombre lyric full of suffering set to a classy shimmy.
(16) A shirtless young man shimmied down a lamppost after scrawling "Leave you murderer" across a billboard of the president's face.
(17) Hey, nothing says "rave" quite like the CEO of Barclaycard shimmying around a chocolate teardrop in black tie get-up.
(18) No problem – depression, sexual frustration, genocide – it seemed, was so big that it couldn't be solved by a spontaneous shimmy.
(19) Anyone who missed a cinema ad in which a glass of Baileys gloop is transformed into scores of shimmying beauties, so as "to celebrate the spirit of modern womanhood", can still catch its festive promotion, "spend time with the girls this Christmas", in which three modern women, discovering that they prefer the beverage to any amount of testosterone, illustrate how positive action can be cute and fun.
(20) Backed up by a few handheld cameras and 22 radio mikes, they capture the ups and downs of academic life, from the maths teacher singing One Direction to himself as he shimmies down the corridor, to the lies told by a year 11 pupil as she successfully pins the blame on another pupil for a fight she had a hand in starting.