(bodies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Your ~ is all your physical parts, including your head, arms, and legs.
The largest organ in the ~ is the liver.
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2.
You can also refer to the main part of your ~, except for your arms, head, and legs, as your ~.
Lying flat on the floor, twist your ~ on to one hip and cross your upper leg over your ~.
= torso, trunk
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3.
You can refer to a person’s dead ~ as a ~.
Officials said they had found no traces of violence on the ~ of the politician.
= corpse
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4.
A ~ is an organized group of people who deal with something officially.
...the Chairman of the policemen’s representative ~, the Police Federation.
...the main trade union ~, COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions.
= organization
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5.
A ~ of people is a group of people who are together or who are connected in some way.
...that large ~ of people which teaches other people how to teach.
= group
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6.
The ~ of something such as a building or a document is the main part of it or the largest part of it.
The main ~ of the church had been turned into a massive television studio...
= bulk
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7.
The ~ of a car or aeroplane is the main part of it, not including its engine, wheels, or wings.
The only shade was under the ~ of the plane.
= shell
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8.
A ~ of water is a large area of water, such as a lake or a sea.
It is probably the most polluted ~ of water in the world.
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9.
A ~ of information is a large amount of it.
An increasing ~ of evidence suggests that all of us have cancer cells in our bodies at times during our lives.
= quantity
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10.
If you say that an alcoholic drink has ~, you mean that it has a full and strong flavour.
...a dry wine with good ~.
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11.
see also foreign ~ , heavenly ~