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body
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)
- Physical frame.
- 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.
- 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.
- A corpse. [from 13th c.]
- Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- (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?
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 463:
- (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.
- 1999, Devon Carbado, Black Men on Race, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Reader (page 87)
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. [from 9th c.]
- Main section.
- 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.
- 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.
- (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.
- The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. [from 17th c.]
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A bodysuit. [from 19th c.]
- (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.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). [from 9th c.]
- Coherent group.
- 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.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group. [from 17th c.]
- The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. [from 17th c.]
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. [from 16th c.]
- Material entity.
- Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- (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.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1
- (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). [from 17th c.]
- The red wine, sadly, lacked body.
- 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.
- 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:
- Any physical object or material thing. [from 14th c.]
- (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.
- (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)
- 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.
- To construct the bodywork of a car.
- (transitive) To embody.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To murder someone.
- (transitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, by extension) To utterly defeat someone.
- (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)
- bodysuit, leotard
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
body
- 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)
- A leotard.
- Body, substance.
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?body/, [?bo?dy]
- IPA(key): /?bodi/, [?bo?di]
- Rhymes: -ody
- Homophone: bodi
- Syllabification: bo?dy
Noun
body
- snapsuit, diaper shirt, onesies (infant bodysuit)
Declension
Pronunciation ?body:
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?.di/
Noun
body m (invariable)
- 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)
- body
- person, human being
Spanish
Noun
body m (plural bodys or bodies)
- bodysuit
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jam
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /?d?æm/
- (Southern England, Australia) IPA(key): /?d?æ?m/
- - fruit spread
- - verb
- Rhymes: -æm
- Homophone: jamb
Etymology 1
First attested in the early 18th c. as a verb meaning “to press, be pressed, be wedged in”. Eventually onomatopoeic, perhaps identical with Middle English cham (“to bite, to gnash one's teeth”), whence modern champ.
Noun
jam (countable and uncountable, plural jams)
- A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.
- Synonyms: (US) conserve, jelly, preserve
- (countable) A difficult situation.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation
- (countable) Blockage, congestion.
- (countable, popular music) An informal, impromptu performance or rehearsal.
- (countable, by extension, informal) A song; a track.
- 2001, Jet (volume 100, number 22, page 25)
- The result is an outstanding assortment of sophisticated, sexy and hip-hop-tinged R&B grooves, ballads and party jams.
- 2001, Jet (volume 100, number 22, page 25)
- (countable, by extension) An informal event where people brainstorm and collaborate on projects.
- (uncountable, slang) That which one particularly prefers, desires, enjoys, or cares about.
- (countable, baseball) A difficult situation for a pitcher or defending team.
- (countable, basketball) A forceful dunk.
- (countable, roller derby) A play during which points can be scored.
- (climbing, countable) Any of several maneuvers requiring wedging of an extremity into a tight space.
- (Britain, slang) luck.
- (slang) sexual relations or the contemplation of them.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Czech: džem
- ? Japanese: ??? (jamu)
- ? Korean: ? (jaem)
- ? Russian: ???? (džem)
- ? Serbo-Croatian: dž?m, ????
- ? Slovak: džem
Translations
See also
- jelly
- marmalade
Verb
jam (third-person singular simple present jams, present participle jamming, simple past and past participle jammed)
- To get something stuck, often (though not necessarily) in a confined space.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, 1719, p. 226,[1]
- The Ship, which by its Building was Spanish, stuck fast, jaum’d in between two Rocks; all the Stern and Quarter of her was beaten to Pieces with the Sea […]
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, 1719, p. 226,[1]
- To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze.
- 1779, George Colman, Farewell Epilogue, spoken at Wynnstay after the representation of Cymbeline and The Spanish Barber, 22 January, 1779, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 283,[2]
- Since the new post-horse tax, I dare engage
- That some folks here have travell’d in the Stage:
- Jamm’d in at midnight, in cold winter weather,
- The crouded passengers are glew’d together.
- 1779, George Colman, Farewell Epilogue, spoken at Wynnstay after the representation of Cymbeline and The Spanish Barber, 22 January, 1779, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 283,[2]
- To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up"
- To block or confuse a broadcast signal.
- (baseball) To throw a pitch at or near the batter's hands.
- (music) To play music (especially improvisation as a group, or an informal unrehearsed session).
- To injure a finger or toe by sudden compression of the digit's tip.
- (roller derby) To attempt to score points.
- (nautical, transitive) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
- 1887, William Clark Russell, The Golden Hope
- It won't do to jam her,” answered Stone ;" but it might be worth findin' out if th' Hope won't lie closer than t' other can." Half a point ----"
- 1887, William Clark Russell, The Golden Hope
- (Canada, informal) To give up on a date or some joint endeavour; stand up, chicken out, jam out.
Synonyms
- ram
Derived terms
- (to squeeze into a small space): jam-pack
- jammer
- jam band
- jam session
Translations
Etymology 2
Persian or Hindi, meaning "garment, robe;" see ????? (“garment”). Related to pajamas.
Noun
jam (plural jams)
- (dated) A kind of frock for children.
Etymology 3
Noun
jam (plural jams)
- (mining) Alternative form of jamb
References
- jam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- jam at OneLook Dictionary Search
- jam in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- JMA, Maj, Maj., maj.
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *esmi, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésmi (“I am, I exist”), identical with Ancient Greek ???? (eimí), Sanskrit ????? (ásmi), English am. Aorist qeshë from Proto-Indo-European *k?el- (“to turn, revolve”), with a semantic development similar to Germanic *werdan (“to become”), from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jam/
Verb
jam (first-person singular past tense qeshë, participle qenë)
- to be
Conjugation
References
Czech
Etymology
From Portuguese inhame or Spanish iñame, both likely of West African origin.
Noun
jam m
- yam (any Dioscorea vine)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English jam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m/
- Hyphenation: jam
- Rhymes: -?m
Noun
jam m (plural jams, diminutive jammetje n)
- (chiefly Netherlands) jam (congealed sweet mixture of conserved fruits)
Synonyms
- confituur
- marmelade
Derived terms
- aardbeienjam
- jampot
- kersenjam
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin iam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jam/
- Hyphenation: jam
- Audio:
Adverb
jam
- already
Garo
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
jam
- granary, storehouse
Highland Popoluca
Noun
jam
- lime
References
- Elson, Benjamin F.; Gutiérrez G., Donaciano (1999) Diccionario popoluca de la Sierra, Veracruz (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 41)?[3] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., ?ISBN, page 74
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay jam, from Sanskrit ??? (y?ma, “time”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d??am]
- Hyphenation: jam
Noun
jam (first-person possessive jamku, second-person possessive jammu, third-person possessive jamnya)
- hour (Time period of sixty minutes)
- clock (instrument to measure or keep track of time)
- (colloquial) time, particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something
- Synonyms: pukul, saat, waktu
Further reading
- “jam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Interlingua
Adverb
jam (not comparable)
- already
Javanese
Etymology
Ultimately from Sanskrit ??? (y?ma)
Noun
jam
- clock
Latgalian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?jam/
- Hyphenation: jam
Pronoun
jam
- dative singular of jis
References
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, ?ISBN, page 37
Latin
Adverb
jam (not comparable)
- Alternative form of iam
References
- jam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Lindu
Noun
jam
- time
- hour
- clock
Lithuanian
Pronoun
jam m
- (third-person singular) dative form of jis.
- 2007, Jurga (Jurga Šeduikyt?), Angelai
- Jo balti sparnai man tinka
- Jam savo šarvus dovanoju
- His white wings suit me
- I present to him my armor
- 2007, Jurga (Jurga Šeduikyt?), Angelai
Malay
Etymology
From Sanskrit ??? (y?ma, “time”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d??am]
- Rhymes: -d??am, -am
Noun
jam (Jawi spelling ???, plural jam-jam, informal 1st possessive jamku, impolite 2nd possessive jammu, 3rd possessive jamnya)
- hour (Time period of sixty minutes)
- clock (instrument to measure or keep track of time)
Further reading
- “jam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
North Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian j?. Cognate with West Frisian jimme
Pronoun
jam
- you (plural)
- your (plural)
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jam/
Noun
jam f
- genitive plural of jama
Pronoun
jam
- (informal, sometimes proscribed) Combined form of ja +? -m (first person singular pronoun + verb suffix).
Further reading
- jam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Slovene
Noun
jam
- genitive dual/plural of jama
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /j??m/
Noun
jam n
- meow (sound of a cat)
Declension
Related terms
- jama
Anagrams
- Maj, maj
Welsh
Etymology
From English jam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??am/
Noun
jam m (plural jamiau, not mutable)
- jam
- Synonym: cyffaith
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “jam”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
jam c (plural jams)
- jam, fruit preserves
Alternative forms
- sjem
Further reading
- “jam (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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