corps
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a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entitytypes:administration, gouvernementthe persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering somethingécolea body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teacherscoloniea body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of governmentdirectionthe body of people who lead a groupjurya body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of lawprofessionthe body of people in a learned occupationexécutifpersons who administer the lawcommandement en chefthe highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military)type of:groupe socialpeople sharing some social relation
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an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objectssynonyms: astretypes:chromosomea threadlike strand of DNA in the cell nucleus that carries the genes in a linear orderparticulea body having finite mass and internal structure but negligible dimensionsparticule subatomique, particule élémentaire(physics) a particle that is less complex than an atom; regarded as constituents of all matterfermionany particle that obeys Fermi-Dirac statistics and is subject to the Pauli exclusion principleiona particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electronstype of:objet naturelan object occurring naturally; not made by man
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the dead body of a human being
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the property of holding together and retaining its shapetypes:viscositéresistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)épaisseurresistance to flowdouceurthe property of giving little resistance to pressure and being easily cut or moldedviscositéthe property of sticking to a surfaceviscositéthe property of being cohesive and stickycompacitéthe consistency of a compact solidtype of:
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the body excluding the head and neck and limbstype of:partie du corpsany part of an organism such as an organ or extremity
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a natural object consisting of a dead animal or persontypes:charognethe dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human foodcadavrethe dead body of a human beingtype of:objet naturelan object occurring naturally; not made by man
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the entire structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)synonyms: structure organiquetypes:anatomiealternative names for the body of a human beingpersonnea human body (usually including the clothing)type of:objet naturelan object occurring naturally; not made by man
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Vocabulary lists containing corps
Learn these words that derive from the Latin word corpus, meaning "body." Want to dissect more English words related to anatomy? Here are links to our complete set of Body Language lists: Corp ("Body") / Capit, Capt ("Head") / Or, Os ("Mouth") / Dent, Dont ("Tooth") / Gastr, Gastro ("Stomach") / Neur ("Nerve") / Man ("Hand") / Ped, Pod ("Foot") / Derm ("Skin") / Carn ("Flesh") / Os, Osteo ("Bone") / Cor, Cord, Cardio ("Heart") / Psych ("Mind")
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