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Definition of lichaam in Dutch English dictionary
- body
How much of our body is water?
-Hoeveel van ons lichaam bestaat uit water?
My wet clothes clung to my body.
-Mijn natte kleren plakten tegen mijn lichaam.
- Physical frame
Indeed, if it belonged to a poor body, it would be another thing; but so great a lady, to be sure, can never want it.
- To construct the bodywork of a car
- The part of an email message where you type your message, as opposed to the header or the signature
- You can refer to a person's dead body as a body. Officials said they had found no traces of violence on the body of the politician. = corpse
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- A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure
- A body of water is a large area of water, such as a lake or a sea. It is probably the most polluted body of water in the world
- The body of a car or aeroplane is the main part of it, not including its engine, wheels, or wings. The only shade was under the body of the plane. = shell
- Any physical object or material thing
- a collection of particulars considered as a system; "a body of law"; "a body of doctrine"; "a body of precedents"
- That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs
- the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism
- Tea taster's term to denote strength and viscosity of a brewed tea
- If you say that an alcoholic drink has body, you mean that it has a full and strong flavour. a dry wine with good body. see also foreign body, heavenly body. body armour body modification and mutilation bog body you should have the body mind body problem pineal body
- Sometimes used as a shortened term, mainly by elders, but sometimes by others, for ``body of elders'' or ``body of older men'' <<I think your idea is a good one, but we'd better check with the body before acting >>
- Amount; quantity; extent
- One of the five elements of movement Refers to what the body is doing, which may be described in terms of: whole or partial body actionusing the whole body (e g , whole body stretch), using isolated parts of the body (e g , gesture); cross-lateral (e g , left arm and right leg) type of movement: locomotor (travelling)basic (e g , walk, jump, slide, roll) or combined (e g , step-hop, waltz-run or triplet, grapevine) non-locomotor (on the spot) (e g , curl, stretch, spin) sizesmall, large weight transferlunge, leap, roll balanceon-balance, off-balance; supported, unsupported shapenarrow, wide; angular, curved, twisted; symmetrical, asymmetrical
- The thickness or viscosity of a fluid
- A group of men or people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass