corpus

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A collection of written or spoken texts.

   • No one suggests that Browning intended to mean vagina when he wrote “owls and bats, / Cowls and twats,” because the context does not allow for it, nor does the greater context of the Browning corpus.
   • A corpus approach is a useful methodology for observing, describing and interpreting the stylistic features of language in literary and non-literary texts.
   • Today, computer databases and corpora infinitely increase the ease of this type of research, but the collecting process remains essentially the same.
2. 2

   A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.

   • the corpus of the uterus
3. 3

   A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.

   • An assessment in 1991 proposed publication of the results of this work in three stages: […] secondly, a corpus of the Roman pottery to present the type series and to discuss the fabrics and forms recovered, […]
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   1. 4

      The body of a man or animal.

   2. 5

      Corpus Christi (city in Texas)

   3. 6

      Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

   4. 7

      Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

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