| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A number of persons who have come or been gathered together: assemblage, assembly, company, conclave, conference, congregation, congress, convention, convocation, crowd, gathering, group, meeting, muster, troop. Informal : get-together. See COLLECT. 2. A separate and distinct portion of matter: bulk, mass, object. See MATTER. 3. The main part: bulk. Anatomy : corpus. See BIG. 4. The physical frame of a dead person or animal: cadaver, carcass, corpse, remains. Slang : stiff. See BODY. 5. A group of people organized for a particular purpose: corps, crew, detachment, force, gang, team, unit. See GROUP. 6. A number of individuals making up or considered a unit: array, band2, batch, bevy, bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, clutch2, collection, group, knot, lot, party, set2. See GROUP. 7. A member of the human race: being, creature, homo, human, human being, individual, life, man, mortal, party, person, personage, soul. See BEINGS. 8. A measurable whole: amount, budget, bulk, corpus, quantity, quantum. See BIG. | | PHRASAL VERB: | body forth To represent (an abstraction, for example) in or as if in bodily form: embody, exteriorize, externalize, incarnate, manifest, materialize, objectify, personalize, personify, substantiate. See SUBSTITUTE.
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