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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
corpus
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
habeas corpus
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
habeas
▪ The Senate added restrictions on habeas corpus, or the right of prisoners to appeal against death sentences.
▪ Kennedy and other opponents of habeas corpus reform made a last-minute appeal to have the provision stripped from the bill.
▪ Yet the bill that has emerged from conference still includes the habeas corpus restrictions and the easier deportation rules.
▪ His petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by the circuit court.
▪ His writ of habeas corpus was filed one day late, &038;.
large
▪ Each combination was given a probability score based on its occurrence in a large corpus.
▪ The use of longer transitions requires a larger training corpus, increased storage for the transition matrices and is computationally more demanding.
▪ A larger tagged corpus would allow the creation of a more accurate syntactic model.
■ NOUN
lob
▪ This contrasts the number of possible transitions of each order with the actual number found in the million word LOB corpus.
▪ The composition of the test corpus and the reduced LOB corpus is shown in table 4.3.
▪ A 521 word text was written from a randomly selected business text, not associated with the LOB corpus.
▪ Many types occur just once in the LOB corpus.
▪ The only way in which one could incorporate such fine-grained information from the Text710 would be to completely re-tag the LOB corpus.
▪ However many of the tags used exclusively in the LOB corpus can be retained.
▪ When faced with the same problem the compilers of the LOB corpus opted for a statistical approach.
▪ The tags in the LOB corpus and Text710 dictionary were then substituted for those of the combined tagset.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ablation of capsaicin sensitive afferent neurones was verified by a depletion of calcitonin gene related peptide from the gastric corpus wall.
▪ Both the Text710 and the corpus contain information about words and their grammatical tags.
▪ But habeas corpus is in fact a federal civil proceeding, where much broader rules apply.
▪ But the corpus is a singular specimen, whose like is seldom seen on screen.
▪ His writ of habeas corpus was filed one day late, &.
▪ If there is no ovulation, then there is no corpus luteum formation and no cyclic rise in pregnanediol levels. 347.
▪ The concept of charity is elusive, moving, embodied in a corpus of decided cases built up over centuries.
▪ This operation involved cutting the main fibre tract that joins the two halves of the brain, the corpus callosum.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corpus

Corpus \Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl. Corpora (-p[-o]*r[.a]). A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.

Corpus callosum (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl. Corpora callosa (-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain.

Corpus Christi (kr[i^]s"t[imac]) [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.

Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx.

Corpus delicti (d[-e]*l[i^]k"t[imac]) [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime.

Corpus luteum (l[=u]"t[-e]*[u^]m); pl. Corpora lutea (-[.a]). [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary.

Corpus striatum (str[-i]*[=a]"t[u^]m); pl. Corpora striata (-t[.a]). [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
corpus

(plural corpora), late 14c., from Latin corpus, literally "body" (see corporeal). The sense of "body of a person" (mid-15c. in English) and "collection of facts or things" (1727 in English) both were present in Latin. Corpus Christi (late 14c.), feast of the Blessed Sacrament, is the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Also used in various medical phrases, such as corpus callosum (1706, literally "tough body"), corpus luteum (1788, literally "yellow body").

Wiktionary
corpus

Etymology 1 n. 1 body 2 (context linguistics English) a collection of writings, often on a specific topic, of a specific genre, from a specific demographic, a single author etc. Etymology 2

n. (context German printing dated English) (altname long primer nodot=1).

WordNet
corpus
  1. n. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it [syn: principal, principal sum]

  2. a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus"

  3. the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

  4. [also: corpora (pl)]

Gazetteer
Wikipedia
CORPUS

CORPUS is an international reformist organization in the Roman Catholic Church. They support allowing married and single people of both sexes to become priests. See Clerical celibacy and Women's ordination.

CORPUS was started in Chicago in 1974 and is one of the oldest Catholic reformist groups in the United States.

Corpus (album)

Corpus was the second album by Sebastian Santa Maria, released posthumously in 1997.

Corpus (dance troupe)

Corpus is a Canadian dance company whose work often combines humour with dance. Besides major productions, they often perform in schools, and are co-creators of the Treehouse TV series 4 Square. They have performed thousands of shows internationally since their founding in 1997 by David Danzon and Sylvie Bouchard.

Corpus (Bernini)

Corpus (The Body) is a life-size bronze sculpture of the crucified Jesus by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Cast in 1650, Bernini held onto it in his private collection for 25 years.

Corpus is considered one of the artist's "long-lost masterpieces". It is believed that Bernini cast three versions of Corpus. One version was destroyed during the French Revolution, one belonged to the official collection of the royal family of Spain, and one that was recorded in the Perugia region of Italy in 1790 before going missing. The Corpus donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto was long believed to have been cast by an unknown French artist. In 2004, following new scholarly studies of the work, Corpus was attributed to Bernini, who cast the sculpture for his personal collection.

After being "lost" for over one hundred years, Corpus surfaced in Venice in 1908. Later it fell into private hands in the United States, but by that time it was misidentified as a work from the school of Giambologna. At an auction in 1975, it failed to sell for the very low price of $200. It was not until 2002 that it was recognized as a Bernini. And it took until 2005 for the provenance to be definitely and directly linked to Bernini.

In January 2007, Toronto real estate developer Murray Frum negotiated to buy the sculpture from an art dealer in the United States, and then donated the sculpture to the Art Gallery of Ontario. Corpus is said to be worth $50 million in the current art market.

Corpus (museum)

The Corpus Museum is a human biology interactive museum, located near Oegstgeest in the Netherlands.

Billed as "a journey through the human body", the museum provides both education and entertainment through a combination of permanent and variable collections.

Opened in 2008 by Queen Beatrix, the museum is the world's first museum of its type.

Usage examples of "corpus".

Yet there are a very few strange forms in our corpus that look like aorists by their ending, but still show a long stem-vowel, e.

He was, indeed, while President, violently denounced by the opposition as a tyrant and a usurper, for having gone beyond his constitutional powers in authorizing or permitting the temporary suppression of newspapers, and in wantonly suspending the writ of habeas corpus and resorting to arbitrary arrests.

Whereas an insurrection exists in the State of Florida, by which the lives, liberty, and property of loyal citizens of the United States are endangered: And whereas it is deemed proper that all needful measures should be taken for the protection of such citizens and all officers of the United States in the discharge of their public duties in the State aforesaid: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham LINCOLN, President of the United States, do hereby direct the commander of the forces of the United States on the Florida coast to permit no person to exercise any office or authority upon the islands of Key West, the Tortugas, and Santa Rosa, which may be inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of the United States, authorizing him at the same time, if he shall find it necessary, to suspend there the writ of habeas corpus, and to remove from the vicinity of the United States fortresses all dangerous or suspected persons.

Pepe Boltana, CEO of the Banco de Corpus Cristi whose head office is on Grand Cayman.

AFI was there, ministries of agriculture and so forth, and one of the banks the Columbians use, the Madrid and Grand Cayman Banco de Corpus Cristi Internacional.

Associated Foods International and the Banco de Corpus Cristi Internacional have played parts in at least three earlier novels of mine.

Corpus Christi was founded in 1352 because fees for celebrating masses for the dead were so inflated after the plague that two guilds of Cambridge decided to establish a college whose scholars, as clerics, would be required to pray for their deceased members.

Split-brain animal with the chiasm and corpus callosum cut is first trained with the left eve blindfolded.

Zipser walked down Free School Lane past the black clunch walls of Corpus.

In these animals modified by heredity, the two eyes generally protruded, although in the parents usually only one showed exophthalmia, the lesion having been made in most cases only on one of the corpora restiformia.

During his reign, the Habeas Corpus Act was passed and feudalism was practically abolished.

They had Habeas Corpus and Chemistry with them, as well as certain supplies Doc had requested.

Last, and almost squealing in his delight, despite orders to the contrary, was Habeas Corpus.

Lincoln had been willing to defy Justice Taney on habeas corpus in this state, but if he wanted to prevent a vote of secession, he would have to expand his powers far beyond any ever considered in a democracy.

If arrested, they would have been discharged on habeas corpus, were the writ allowed to operate.