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As nouns the difference between body and cover

is that body is a bodysuit , chiefly worn by women and children while cover is cover version, cover song.

body

English

(wikipedia body)

Noun

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  • Physical frame.
  • # The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
  • 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.
  • The body is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
  • # A corpse.
  • Her body was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
  • #
  • #* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), , Folio Society 1973, p. 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.
  • #* , chapter=5
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}
  • What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here?
  • Main section.
  • # The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail).
  • The boxer took a blow to the body .
  • # The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • # A bodysuit.
  • # (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
  • In many programming languages, the method body is enclosed in braces.
  • Coherent group.
  • # A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
  • I was escorted from the building by a body of armed security guards.
  • # An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
  • The local train operating company is the managing body for this section of track.
  • # A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
  • We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
  • Material entity.
  • # Any physical object or material thing.
  • All bodies are held together by internal forces.
  • # (uncountable) Substance; physical presence.
  • #* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, 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.
  • # (uncountable) Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
  • 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.
  • The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
  • (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

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Derived terms

    * acetone body * administrative body * after body * amygaloid body * anococcygeal body * asteroid body * astral body * Barr body * black body * bodice * bodily * body armour * body bag * body blow * body-build * bodybuilder * bodybuilding * body cavity * body-centered * body check * body clock * body coat * body conscious * body contact * body count * body-hugging * body image * body louse * body mass index * body odour * body politic * bodyshell * body shop * body snatcher * body-surf * bodysuit * bodywork * car body * dead body * foreign body * heavenly body * mind-body * out-of-body * over my dead body * real body * subtle body * student body * zebra body (body)

    See also

    * corporal * corporeal

    Verb

  • To give body or shape to something.
  • To construct the bodywork of a car.
  • To embody.
  • * 1955 , Philip Larkin, Toads
  • I don't say, one bodies the other / One's spiritual truth; / But I do say it's hard to lose either, / When you have both.

    References

    * Compact Oxford English Dictionary * MSN encarta

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    Anagrams

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    cover

    English

    (wikipedia cover)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lid.
  • A hiding from view.
  • A front and back of a book or magazine.
  • A top sheet of a bed.
  • A cover charge.
  • A setting at a restaurant table or formal .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=
  • , title=(The Celebrity) , chapter=1 citation , passage=When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.}}
  • (music) A rerecording of a previously recorded song; a cover version; a cover song.
  • (cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
  • (topology) A set (more often known as a family ) of sets, whose union contains the given set.
  • (philately) An envelope complete with stamps and postmarks etc.
  • (military) A solid object, including terrain, that provides protection from enemy fire.
  • (legal) In commercial law, a buyer’s purchase on the open market of goods similar or identical to the goods contracted for after a seller has breached a contract of sale by failure to deliver the goods contracted for.
  • (insurance) An insurance contract; coverage by an insurance contract.
  • (espionage) A persona maintained by a spy or undercover operative, cover story
  • The portion of a slate, tile, or shingle that is hidden by the overlap of the course above.
  • (Knight)
  • In a steam engine, the lap of a slide valve.
  • Derived terms

    * cover board * cover charge * cover letter * cover story * cover version * take cover * tonneau cover

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
  • (music) Of, pertaining to, or consisting of cover versions.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  • :
  • :
  • To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect.
  • :
  • *
  • *:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Charles T. Ambrose
  • , title= Alzheimer’s Disease , volume=101, issue=3, page=200, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—
  • To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  • :
  • To set upon all of, so as to completely conceal.
  • :
  • To invest (oneself with something); to bring upon (oneself).
  • :
  • *(John Brougham) (1814-1880)
  • *:the powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland
  • (label) To discuss thoroughly; to provide coverage of.
  • :
  • To deal with.
  • *2010 (publication date), "Contributors", , ISSN 0274-7529, volume 32, number 1, January–February 2011, page 7:
  • *:Richard Morgan covers science for The Economist'', ''The New York Times'', ''Scientific American'', and ''Wired .
  • To be enough money for.
  • :
  • :
  • (label) To act as a replacement.
  • :
  • (label) To have as an assignment or responsibility.
  • :
  • :
  • (label) To make a cover version of (a song that was originally recorded by another artist).
  • To protect using an aimed firearm and the threat of firing; or'' to protect using continuous, heaving fire at or in the direction of the enemy so as to force the enemy to remain in cover; ''or to threaten using an aimed firearm.
  • To provide insurance coverage for.
  • :
  • To copulate with (said of certain male animals such as dogs and horses).
  • :
  • :
  • To protect or control (a piece or square).
  • :
  • Derived terms

    * coverage * cover up * cover one's bases * coverer * discover * duck and cover * recover * uncover

    Descendants

    * German: (l)