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As a noun body

is a bodysuit , chiefly worn by women and children.

As a proper noun shell is

a diminutive of the female given name michelle .

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

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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

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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)

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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shell

English

(wikipedia shell)

Noun

(en noun)

A hard external covering of an animal.

# The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.

In some mollusks, as the cuttlefish, the shell is concealed by the animal's outer mantle and is considered internal.

Genuine mother of pearl buttons are made from sea shells .

# (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.

# (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.

# The conjoined scutes that comprise the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.

# The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.

The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.

The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.

# The covering, or outside part, of a nut.

The black walnut and the hickory nut, both of the same ''Genus as the pecan, have much thicker and harder shells than the pecan.

# A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris .

# (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.

The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.

The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.

A hollow usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scattered at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.

The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.

Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.

A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.

A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.

(Knight)

(music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.

The first lyre may have been made by drawing strings over the underside of a tortoise shell.

* Dryden

when Jubal struck the chorded shell

(music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.

An engraved copper roller used in print works.

(nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.

(nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.

(nautical) A light boat the frame of which is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.

(computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter.

The name shell originates from it being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the internals of the operating system.

The name "Bash" is an acronym which stands for "Bourne-again shell", itself a pun on the name of the "Bourne shell", an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".

(chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.

An emaciated person.

He's lost so much weight from illness; he's a shell of his former self.

A psychological barrier to social interaction.

Even after months of therapy he's still in his shell .

(business) A legal entity that has no operations.

A shell corporation was formed to acquire the old factory.

Derived terms

* clamshell * clean shell * come out of one’s shell * eggshell * seashell * shellfish * shell script * shell suit * tortoiseshell

Verb

(en verb)

To remove the outer covering or shell of something. See sheller.

To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.

(informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out ).

To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.

To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.

Nuts shell in falling.

Wheat or rye shells in reaping.

(computing) To switch to a shell or command line.

* 1993 , Robin Nixon, The PC Companion (page 115)

Automenu is a good program to try, and offers a fair amount of protection - but, unfortunately, it's one of those systems that allow users to shell to DOS.

Derived terms

* shell out

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