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Corpus
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- 1 Corpus Christi (city in Texas) informal
- 2 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
- 3 Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
- 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."
- 2 the main part of an organ or other bodily structure wordnet
- 3 A collection of written or spoken texts.; Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses. specifically
"Text corpora are being used in most current lexicographic projects. Applied linguistic research is another field where text corpora are welcome as an inexhaustible source of empirical information, a polygon for testing various linguistic tools – spell-checkers, OCRs, machine translation systems, NLP systems, etc."
- 4 a collection of writings wordnet
- 5 A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.
"the corpus of the uterus"
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- 6 capital as contrasted with the income derived from it wordnet
- 7 A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics. uncommon
"About a hundred years ago in Germany, the publishing of corpuses of the ancient Greek coinages was started. […] The significance of those, and some other corpuses is exclusive, because they allowed an enormous amount of numismatic material kept in museum and private collections all over the world, to be studied and systematized."
- 8 The body of a man or animal. archaic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.
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