What is "bodies"

Body \Bod"y\, n.; pl. Bodies. [OE. bodi, AS. bodig; akin to OHG. botah. [root]257. Cf. Bodice.]

1. The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

   Absent in body, but present in spirit.
   --1 Cor. v. 3

   For of the soul the body form doth take. For soul is form, and doth the body make.
   --Spenser.

2. The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc.

   Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together?
   --Shak.

   The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the prince.
   --Clarendon.

   Rivers that run up into the body of Italy.
   --Addison.

3. The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow.

   Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
   --Col. ii. 17.

4. A person; a human being; -- frequently in composition; as, anybody, nobody.

   A dry, shrewd kind of a body.
   --W. Irving.

5. A number of individuals spoken of collectively, usually as united by some common tie, or as organized for some purpose; a collective whole or totality; a corporation; as, a legislative body; a clerical body.

   A numerous body led unresistingly to the slaughter.
   --Prescott.

6. A number of things or particulars embodied in a system; a general collection; as, a great body of facts; a body of laws or of divinity.

7. Any mass or portion of matter; any substance distinct from others; as, a metallic body; a moving body; an a["e]riform body. ``A body of cold air.''
   --Huxley.

   By collision of two bodies, grind The air attrite to fire.
   --Milton.

8. Amount; quantity; extent.

9. That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

10. The bed or box of a vehicle, on or in which the load is placed; as, a wagon body; a cart body.

11. (Print.) The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated); as, a nonpareil face on an agate body.

12. (Geom.) A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

13. Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

    Note: Colors bear a body when they are capable of being ground so fine, and of being mixed so entirely with oil, as to seem only a very thick oil of the same color.

14. (A["e]ronautics) The central, longitudinal framework of a flying machine, to which are attached the planes or a["e]rocurves, passenger accommodations, controlling and propelling apparatus, fuel tanks, etc. Also called fuselage. After body (Naut.), the part of a ship abaft the dead flat. Body cavity (Anat.), the space between the walls of the body and the inclosed viscera; the c[ae]lum; -- in mammals, divided by the diaphragm into thoracic and abdominal cavities. Body of a church, the nave. Body cloth; pl. Body cloths, a cloth or blanket for covering horses. Body clothes. (pl.)

    1. Clothing for the body; esp. underclothing.

    2. Body cloths for horses. [Obs.]
       --Addison.

       Body coat, a gentleman's dress coat.

       Body color (Paint.), a pigment that has consistency, thickness, or body, in distinction from a tint or wash.

       Body of a law (Law), the main and operative part.

       Body louse (Zo["o]l.), a species of louse ( Pediculus vestimenti), which sometimes infests the human body and clothes. See Grayback.

       Body plan (Shipbuilding), an end elevation, showing the conbour of the sides of a ship at certain points of her length.

       Body politic, the collective body of a nation or state as politically organized, or as exercising political functions; also, a corporation.
       --Wharton.

       As to the persons who compose the body politic or associate themselves, they take collectively the name of ``people'', or ``nation''.
       --Bouvier.

       Body servant, a valet.

       The bodies seven (Alchemy), the metals corresponding to the planets. [Obs.]

       Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe (=call), Mars yren (=iron), Mercurie quicksilver we clepe, Saturnus lead, and Jupiter is tin, and Venus coper.
       --Chaucer.

       Body snatcher, one who secretly removes without right or authority a dead body from a grave, vault, etc.; a resurrectionist.

       Body snatching (Law), the unauthorized removal of a dead body from the grave; usually for the purpose of dissection.

n. (body English).

Bodies is a British television medical drama produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC. Created by Jed Mercurio, the series began in 2004 and is based on his book Bodies. In December 2009, The Times ranked Bodies in 9th place in its list of "Shows of the Decade". The Guardian has ranked the series among "The Greatest Television Dramas of All-Time".

"Bodies" is the first episode of the 14th season of Law & Order, and 302nd episode overall.

Bodies is the first novel written by the British doctor-turned- novelist and - scriptwriter Jed Mercurio. It was published in 2002 and formed the basis of the award-winning BBC medical drama Bodies.

Bodes is the debut extended play (EP) by Australian singer songwriter Celia Pavey. It was announced on 4 August 2014, along with a tour of Australia's east coast. The EP was released on 29 August 2014.

In an interview leading up to the EPs release, Pavey said; “I’m a very honest person so I like to write about real things that are happening in my life rather than make up stories. I write a lot about the people in my life. Most of my songs are about love or the habits people share.”

The EP peaked within the top 20 on the Australian iTunes chart and was on-track to chart within the Australian ARIA top 40, but did not feature on the chart that following week.

"Bodies" is a Sex Pistols song about the shock of abortion from the 1977 album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols. The lyrics contain very graphic imagery about a terminated fetus and feature a great deal of profanity for the time: the third and final verse begins with a couplet in which the word fuck is repeated five times in rapid succession. Along with the later " Belsen Was a Gas," it is probably the most graphic and controversial Sex Pistols song in both its subject matter and style. Musically, it is also the fastest and heaviest song in the Sex Pistols canon — characterized by thudding drums, droning buzzsaw guitar, and shouted vocals. As such, it can be considered a significant antecedent to the genres of hardcore, thrash, and speed metal that was to emerge in the mid-to-late-1980s.

"Bodies" is one of two songs on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols which original Pistols bassist Glen Matlock did not co-write. It is also the only song on the album on which Sid Vicious actually plays bass, although his part was later overdubbed by Steve Jones, after Matlock refused to return to play the part. The song was, like all other Sex Pistols songs, credited to the entire band, though Vicious was in the hospital with hepatitis when the band wrote it. It is mostly about a fan named Pauline, who was (as the song states) from Birmingham. She had been in a mental institution, where she apparently lived in a tree house, in the garden of the institution. This was where the line 'Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree' comes from. The institution was also where she seems to have been raped by one of the male nurses. When she was released, she travelled to London, where she became a punk rock fan. She had several abortions. According to legend, she showed up once at John Lydon's door wearing nothing but a clear plastic bag and holding an aborted fetus in a clear plastic bag.

According to Lydon's autobiography, she told Lydon about becoming pregnant and then having abortions and she described them in detail to him. This affected Lydon enough to write the song. Most of the band also had experiences with Pauline, but have spoken less about it.

With its repeated mentions of "I'm not an animal," of "Mummy," and of a dying baby, the song is widely interpreted as being anti-abortion. Lydon himself, in an interview with Spin Magazine, said "I don't think there's a clearer song about the pain of abortion. The juxtaposition of all those different psychic things in your head and all the confusion, the anger, the frustration, you have to capture in those words." In 2006, National Review magazine put the song at #8 on its list of the "50 Greatest Conservative Rock songs", citing a pro-life message. So too, music critic Robert Christgau called it "effectively anti-abortion, anti-woman, and anti-sex." Yet in the BBC documentary series "Classic Albums" (2007) about The Sex Pistols' "Never Mind The Bollocks" album Lydon said: "That song was hated and loathed. It's not anti-abortion, it's not pro-abortion. It's: "Think about it. Don't be callous about a human being, but don't be limited about a thing as "morals" either. Because it's immoral to bring a kid in this world and not give a toss about it." Another possible interpretation is that the song is simply about the broken life of Pauline.

The Sex Pistols' album Filthy Lucre Live - recorded at Finsbury Park, London on 23 June 1996, and released on 29 July that year - includes a performance of "Bodies." This same performance is a B-side on the " Pretty Vacant (live)" single, under the title "Buddies," and is a different mix from the track on the live album (the audience noise is mixed much higher, with John Lydon's vocal barely audible under the audience singing the first verse). "Buddies" is a bonus track on the Japanese edition of Filthy Lucre Live.

In 2005, a "barnyard" arrangement by Steve Jones and Scott Weiland was performed on Jones' radio show, with the use of the word "fuck" changed to "pluck".

The song has been covered by grunge-rock band Veruca Salt, Velvet Revolver, Suede, The Almighty, Killing Joke, Sepultura, Raimundos, Peppermint Creeps and Opium Jukebox.

Bodies may refer to:

• The plural of body
• Bodies (TV series), BBC television program
• "Bodies" (Law & Order), 2003 episode of Law & Order
• BODIES... The Exhibition, exhibit showcasing dissected human bodies in cities across the globe
• Bodies (novel), 2002 novel by Jed Mercurio
• Bodies, 1977 play by James Saunders (playwright)
• Bodies, 2009 book by British psychoanalyst Susie Orbach

In music:

• "Bodies" (Drowning Pool song), 2001 metal song by Drowning Pool
• "Bodies" (Sex Pistols song), 1977 punk rock song by the Sex Pistols
• "Bodies" (Little Birdy song), 2007 indie rock song by Little Birdy
• "Bodies" (Robbie Williams song), 2009 pop song by Robbie Williams
• "Bodies" (Cee Lo Green Song), 2010 song by Cee Lo Green
• Bodies (EP), a 2014 EP by Celia Pavey
• "Bodies", a song by Megadeth from Endgame
• "Bodies", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

"Bodies" (often called "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor") is a song by the American rock band Drowning Pool and also is the lead single from their debut album Sinner. Released in May 2001, the song is Drowning Pool's signature song and has been featured in various films, TV programs, and advertisements since its release. It was also the theme song for the 2001 WWF SummerSlam pay-per-view event, as well as that of the ECW brand in 2006 to early 2008.

An early version of "Bodies" appeared in their EP Pieces of Nothing, the version omits the lyrics in the bridge and features a significantly greater amount of screaming.

"Bodies" is a song by Little Birdy from their second album, Hollywood. The song was the second single released from the album, and the fifth in the band's history. The single was released on January 23, 2007. "Bodies" peaked at #68 on the ARIA charts.

The single included four B-sides, including: " Beware Wolf", a cover of a song by a fellow Perth band Gyroscope, and a remix of "Hollywood", by Damien Crosby, from another Perth band The Panda Band.

An additional B-side titled "Clear It Out" was also slated for release on the single but did not appear. It was later briefly available on the band's MySpace page.

In the New South Wales State Parliament in March 2009, the Hon. Robyn Parker cited the song as highlighting

"Bodies" is a song by English recording artist Robbie Williams. It was released on 12 October 2009 by EMI as the lead single from his eighth studio album Reality Killed the Video Star (2009). It received its premiere on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 after an interview with Williams on 4 September 2009 at 8am. It is Williams' first single release as a solo artist since " She's Madonna" in March 2007.

"Bodies" entered and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, selling 89,000 copies in its first week and attaining his best first-week sales since " Rock DJ" in August 2000. Williams was beaten to number 1 by Alexandra Burke, whose single " Bad Boys" (featuring rapper Flo Rida) was released on the same day and sold 187,000 in the same week. The cover art was photographed by Julian Broad.