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# body

«body» in Mova's school dictionary: **All of a person or an animal: head, arms, legs and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m1)

2) The main part of a person or animal, not the head, arms or legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m2)

3) A dead person or animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m3)

4) The main part of something, like the body of a letter or a car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m4)

5) An object or a group: a body of water, a heavenly body, the student body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#m5)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x1)
- Exercise keeps your body strong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x2)
- The body of an insect has three parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x3)
- Your body belongs to you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x4)
- A lake is a body of water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x5)
- Write the body of your letter here. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x6)
- Drink water to help your body cool down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x7)
- The car's body was painted red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x8)
- She was wriggling her body in distress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/10/)
- [A local anaesthetic only numbs one part of the body, and the person stays awake.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/10/)
- [When a person dies, their body stops working for ever; it is not sleep, and they do not come back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/1/)
- [Being dead means the body has stopped working for ever; it is not the same as sleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/10/)
- [They share memories, sing or pray, and then the body is buried or cremated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/25-funerals-and-remembering/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «body» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/body/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.