body vs character

body

noun
  • The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. 

  • A person. 

  • A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed. 

  • A corpse. 

  • The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. 

  • A bodysuit. 

  • A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. 

  • A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone. 

  • An organisation, company or other authoritative group. 

  • The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. 

  • A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. 

  • The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. 

  • Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). 

  • The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). 

  • Any physical object or material thing. 

  • The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated). 

  • The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. 

  • Substance; physical presence. 

  • What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here? 

  • An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable. 

verb
  • To embody. 

  • To murder someone. 

  • To give body or shape to something. 

  • To construct the bodywork of a car. 

  • To utterly defeat someone. 

  • to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by. 

character

noun
  • A written or printed symbol, or letter. 

  • Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; moral strength. 

  • A complex number representing an element of a finite Abelian group. 

  • A being involved in the action of a story. 

  • A person or individual, especially one who is unknown. 

  • Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty. 

  • One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character. 

  • A distinguishing feature; characteristic; trait; phene. 

  • A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type. 

  • A unique or extraordinary individual; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits, especially charisma. 

How often have the words body and character occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )