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colony vs body

body vs colony

colony and body both are nouns.

colony is not a verb while body is a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
colony Yes No No No
body Yes No Yes No
As nouns, body is a hypernym of colony; that is, body is a word with a broader meaning than colony:
  • colony: a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
  • body: a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
colony (noun) body (noun)
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government the external structure of a vehicle
a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together a resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin)
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell the property of holding together and retaining its shape
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country the main mass of a thing
a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being)
the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person
the central message of a communication
a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
a collection of particulars considered as a system
an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects
colony (verb) body (verb)
invest with or as with a body; give body to
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