corpus
/ˈkɔrpəs/
noun
- A collection of written texts, especially the complete works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject.
- The scholar spent years studying the entire corpus of Shakespeare's plays.
- The museum's corpus of medieval manuscripts is one of the finest in the world.
- Linguists use a large corpus of spoken English to analyze how people actually talk.
- A collection or body of data, information, or evidence.
- The research team compiled a corpus of thousands of survey responses.
- The company's corpus of customer data was stored securely on their servers.
- The detective examined the corpus of evidence before making an arrest.
- The main body or principal part of something, especially a structure or organ.
- The corpus of the building was completed before the wings were added.
- The corpus of the document contains the key arguments, while the appendix has supporting data.
- In anatomy, the corpus of the stomach is the central part where food is digested.
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