body vs selvage

body

verb
  • To give body or shape to something. 

  • To embody. 

  • To murder someone. 

  • 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. 

selvage

verb
  • To give a selvage to (fabric). 

noun
  • Any edge of fabric finished so as to prevent raveling. 

  • The edge of a woven fabric, where the weft (side-to-side) threads run around the warp (top to bottom) threads, creating a finished edge. 

  • Clay-like material found along and around a geological fault. 

  • That part of a lode adjacent to the walls on either side. 

  • A distinct border of a mass of igneous rock. It is usually fine-grained or glassy due to rapid cooling. 

  • The edge plate of a lock, through which the bolt passes 

  • The excess area of any printed or perforated sheet, such as the border on a sheet of postage stamps or the wide margins of an engraving. 

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