body vs figure

body

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. 

noun
  • 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 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. 

figure

verb
  • To embellish. 

  • To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize. 

  • To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords. 

  • To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. 

  • To enter into; to be a part of. 

  • To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. 

  • To embellish with design; to adorn with figures. 

  • To come to understand. 

  • To be reasonable. 

noun
  • A visible pattern as in wood or cloth. 

  • A number, an amount. 

  • A drawing or diagram conveying information. 

  • A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body. 

  • A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment. 

  • The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term. 

  • A figure of speech. 

  • The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person. 

  • A person or thing representing a certain consciousness. 

  • A numeral. 

  • A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses. 

  • Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression. 

  • The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body. 

  • A shape. 

  • Any complex dance moveᵂ. 

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