Noun

• S: (n) body, organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)) "he felt as if his whole body were on fire"
• S: (n) body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity) "the whole body filed out of the auditorium"; "the student body"; "administrative body"
• S: (n) body, dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person) "they found the body in the lake"
• S: (n) body (an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects) "heavenly body"
• S: (n) torso, trunk, body (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs) "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"
• S: (n) body (a collection of particulars considered as a system) "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) system, scheme (a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole) "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going"
• S: (n) language system (a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language)
• S: (n) judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system (the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government)
• S: (n) economy, economic system (the system of production and distribution and consumption)
• S: (n) ecosystem (a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment)
• S: (n) social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure (the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships) "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
• S: (n) dragnet (a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals)) "caught in the police dragnet"
• S: (n) machinery (a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions) "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"
• S: (n) network, web (an interconnected system of things or people) "he owned a network of shops"; "retirement meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been part of my life"; "tangled in a web of cloth"
• S: (n) nonlinear system (a system whose performance cannot be described by equations of the first degree)
• S: (n) subsystem (a system that is part of some larger system)
• S: (n) organism (a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body) "the social organism"
• S: (n) syntax (a systematic orderly arrangement)
• S: (n) body (a collection of particulars considered as a system) "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
• S: (n) shebang (an entire system; used in the phrase `the whole shebang')
• S: (n) solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)
• S: (n) water system (a river and all of its tributaries)
• S: (n) rootage, root system (a developed system of roots)
• S: (n) consistency, consistence, substance, body (the property of holding together and retaining its shape) "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"
• S: (n) body (the central message of a communication) "the body of the message was short"
• S: (n) body (the main mass of a thing)
• S: (n) soundbox, body (a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin))
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) body (the external structure of a vehicle) "the body of the car was badly rusted"

Verb

• S: (v) body, personify (invest with or as with a body; give body to)