corpus
- noun
- /ˈkɔrpəs/
- Specialized
- For her thesis, she examined a diverse corpus of texts from various authors in the 19th century.
- a large corpus
- the whole corpus
- a reference corpus
He said, when you say the biblical corpus, do you mean the Bible?
- He said, when you say the biblical corpus, do you mean the Bible?
- So those are some good reasons for delving into his corpus, his body of work.
- So Alan de Lille finds this formula in the Corpus Hermeticum.
- You show it a window of a dozen words on a test corpus.
- By now it's been connected to the rest, rest of the scientific, you know, corpus and you can start to make use of it.
- Seneca also wrote plays and and you could consider those to be part of the Stoic corpus as well if you want to read them.
- So I'm looking at what the work itself is doing and and using that to help define my my corpus or my archive.
- And when it comes to this corpus of law and brand new NFTS, NFTS are going to lose.
- This exhibition, and indeed the corpus of Civil War documents also contains numbers of Diaries and journals.
- But keep in mind that there's some things that could happen because what these machines are doing is reading a human corpus.
- We're aiming for a rich corpus of data that has has as much coverage of the marathon as as is possible.
- So they're fed large corpus of text and some of the words are kind of cut out and the program has to learn to guess the words that are missing.
- So they're they're they're corpus of potentially funny jokes.
Examples
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We then ran this query over our medical corpus, returning a set of 100 passages.
Academic text (2017) -
Winner of the MacArthur Award for his work in helping to compile a corpus of Mayan inscriptions.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's at some point the enormous corpus of literature on the association between writing and suffering becomes relevant.
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So those are some good reasons for delving into his corpus, his body of work.
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The extent to which the reference corpus is a representative sample of community college mission statements is unknown, however.
Academic text (2015) -
The main corpus includes nearly the entire population of community colleges, but the reference corpus represents a convenience sample.
Academic text (2015) -
The remaining two tiers represent a corpus of words otherwise known as academic vocabulary.
Academic text (2015) -
Ernest Hemingway's corpus of novels might well be titled "Reflections on Exile."
Academic text (2017) -
Researchers compiled a comprehensive corpus of Shakespeare's plays to analyze his language.
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The study focused on a large corpus of academic articles related to climate change.
Synonyms
All the published writing about a specific subject, like medical studies
Compounds
- Formal
A court order making police bring a person in jail to a judge to check if keeping them is legal
- Formal
An order to bring a prisoner before a judge to check if being held is legal
- Specialized
A wide band of nerve tissue that joins the left and right sides of the brain
- Specialized
A yellow tissue in the ovary that makes hormones after an egg leaves and goes away unless pregnancy happens
- Specialized
A part of the brain made of two connected areas that helps control movement
- Specialized
An almond-shaped group of brain cells in the front part of the side of the brain that helps control emotions
A Christian feast on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday that celebrates the bread and wine of Communion
- Specialized
Part of the brain that sends visual signals from the eye to the visual area at the back
- Specialized
A part of the thalamus that relays sound signals to the hearing part of the brain
- Specialized
They are small round parts under the brain that help you remember things
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Corpus comes from the Latin corpus, which means 'body', and writers use it for a whole 'body' of texts or works. That is why a corpus of Shakespeare means the complete set of his writings.