Meaning

5 senses
  1. A collection of written or spoken texts.

    a collection of writings

  2. A collection of written or spoken texts.

    (specifically)Such a collection in form of an electronic database used for linguistic analyses.

    Korpus, Textkorpus

    ко́рпусkórpus, собра́ниеsobránije

    ко́рпусkórpus, збі́рникzbírnyk

  3. A structure of a special character or function in the animal body.

    the corpus of the uterus

  4. (uncommon)A collection or body of objects with similar characteristics.

  5. (archaic)The body of a man or animal.

Examples

61 sentences
  1. Tatoeba's corpus is heterogeneous in many dimensions.

  2. What is there a corpus maintainer for?

    deWofür gibt es hier einen Korpuspfleger? — GuidoW

  3. Those didn't add anything to the corpus.

  4. We need to improve the corpus together.

  5. This corpus is just a giant compilation of independent clauses.

    deDieses Korpus ist nur eine riesige Sammlung unabhängiger Sätze. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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linguistics: collection of writings:
Русский
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linguistics: collection of writings:
Deutsch
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linguistics: collection of writings:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.

Borrowed from Latin corpus (“body”). Doublet of corpse, corps, and riff.

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