body vs corps

body

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

  • 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. 

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

  • A bodysuit. 

  • 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. 

corps

noun
  • An organized group of people united by a common purpose. 

  • A battlefield formation composed of two or more divisions. 

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