Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A large collection of writings of a specific kind or on a specific subject.
- n. A collection of writings or recorded remarks used for linguistic analysis.
- n. Economics The capital or principal amount, as of an estate or trust.
- n. Economics The principal of a bond.
- n. Anatomy The main part of a bodily structure or organ.
- n. Anatomy A distinct bodily mass or organ having a specific function.
- n. Music The overall length of a violin.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Literally, a body; matter of any kind. In anatomy: The entire physical body of an animal. See soma. Some part of the body specified by a qualifying term. See phrases below.
- n. A collection, especially a complete one, or an account of such a collection.
- n. The whole content; the material substance.
- n. Same as corpusdentatum .
- n. A somewhat similar mass of gray matter in each olivary body. Also called corpus ciliare.
- n. Principal, as opposed to interest or income: as, these payments should be made out of corpus, and not out of income.
- n. In algebra, a manifold, such that its elements are representable by symbols which can be combined according to the laws of ordinary algebra, every algebraic expression obtained by combining a finite number of symbols by means of a finite chain of rational operations (+, —, ×, /) being capable of interpretation as representing a definite element of the manifold, with the single reservation that division by zero is inadmissible.
Wiktionary
- n. the body
- n. linguistics a collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic, a single author etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
- n. the main part of an organ or other bodily structure
- n. a collection of writings
Etymologies
- From Latin corpus ("body"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The term corpus here denotes a collection of documents; corpus juris,”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“We cannot better explain the signification of the term corpus juris canonici than by showing the successive meanings which were assigned to it in the past and which it usually bears at the present day.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“And habeas corpus is pretty tricky because its jargonistic meaning is so far removed from its literal sense, but it might reasonably be translated as пусть душу представят, I would guess without Googling, or more literally (указаем), чтобы ты представил тело.”
“These concerns have particular bearing upon the Suspension Clause question in the cases now before us, for the writ of habeas corpus is itself an indispensable mechanism for monitoring the separation of powers.”
“Ending habeas corpus is not an infringement of rights because after all the constitution is not a suicide pact.”
“The only way he could support denial of habeus corpus now, when all terrorists taken into custody on U.S. soils during his administration got habeus corpus is if there are more than the official record admits.”
“The continued suspension of habeas corpus is a recruiting tool for Al-Qaida.”
“For example when you say, “most people say” …. how can we make that inference and leap of faith when the corpus is based on written entries?”
“As the seven "Critical Essays 1966-1996" selected by Wilcox clearly attest, London's major corpus is very much alive and well.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘corpus’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Ecce Romani
When in Rome...
salve, ecce, omnis, puella, puer, cannis, equis, domus, quae, postquam, vestemque, suam and 106 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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INTERP - terminology management terms
Terms from the fields of terminology, lexicography, lexicology and corpus linguistics
reworder, rewording, parser, parsing, tagger, tagging, aligner, aligning, content analysis, content analyzer, corpus management, glossary and 546 more...
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• Words I often hear at my workplace
We don't know much of each other. (And this is probably why we still like each other.)
Add a word you hear at your workplace, and increase the mistery.
(One at a time, as in a spy story.)cathemerality, phylogenetics, lead generation, acquisitions, haha response, barcode, arthur or martha ..., venti, pedagogically, symphony product, p and ls, recovery process and 100 more...
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SCIE - neurology
abducens.....draw..., ablation.....carr..., acetylcholine......., adrenalin.....nea..., afferent.....to c..., agnosia.....no kn..., alar.....wing-like, alexia.....no words, alveus.....canal, amacrine.....no l..., ambidextrous........, ambiguus.....doub... and 701 more...
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Can You Stomach This?
These things have to do with the stomach...
stomach, gastric, sphincter, fundus, omentum, pylorus, cardia, chyme, mesogastrium, peristalsis, rugae, curvature and 12 more...
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scholarly writing words
decrement, replete, impel, iterative, subsume, tacit, vex, denote, impart, ascertain, coalesce, extant and 49 more...
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hildjj's Words
bookmarklet, demisemiquaver, zeitgeist, hermeneutics, oligarch, quisling, absinthe, mellifluent, verisimilitude, implacable, necrotic, nacreous and 243 more...
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ecbrenner's list
flatline, luddism, apocalipstick, muttsucker, leviathan of fore..., flint, coryphaeus, donnybrook, bandwidth, bagpipe the mizen, cheesed off, asterism and 525 more...
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ttobba's Words
graph, amore, labrador, sun, boreal, norsk, coffee, cafe, pekin, peking, train, rail and 97 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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words i love
fuss, rhythm, obfuscate, sumptuous, decadence, ethereal, peach, stingy, muscle, wrapper, corpus, dastardly deed and 90 more...
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andystardust's Words
liminal, soporific, solipsism, calumny, sanguine, egregious, inimical, corpus, divulge, a fortiori, salutary, evanescence and 118 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for corpus.

seanahan Now my brain is stuck on porpoise christi. Sep 2, 2009
john I was blathering about dictionaries at some point recently and kad thought I was talking about a porpoise. Aug 31, 2009