A Topical Dictionary: Search for torso

Dictionary Results For "torso" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Pronunciation

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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɔː(r)səʊ|-ɔː(r)səʊ

Noun

torso (plural torsos)

The part of the (human) body from the neck to the groin, that is, the body excluding the head and limbs.

Synonyms

trunk

Translations

Chinese Characters: 胴
Chinese: 軀幹, 躯干 (qūgàn)
Czech: {{t-|cs|trup|m}}, {{t-|cs|torzo|n}}
Dutch:
Finnish: ,
French: {{t+|fr|torse|m}}
German: {{t+|de|Torso|m}}
Greek: {{t+|el|κορμός|m|tr=kormós|sc=Grek}}
Hungarian:
Italian: {{t-|it|torso|m}}

Japanese: 胴 (どう, dō), 胴体 (どうたい, dōtai)
Korean: 몸통 (momtong)

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Italian

Noun

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torso

Category:Anatomy Category:it:Anatomy

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Torso \Tor"so\, n.; pl. E. Torsos, It. Torsi. [It. torso,
probably fr. L. thyrsus a stalk, stem, thyrsus, Gr. ?; cf.
OHG. torso, turso, a stalk, stem, G. dorsche a cabbage stalk.
Cf. Thyrsus, Truss.]
The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in
sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and
limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet torso
n : the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved
their arms and legs and bodies" [syn: trunk, body]
[also: torsi (pl)]

Moby Dictionary
anatomy , body , bones , carcass , clay , clod , corpus , figure , flesh ,
form , frame , hulk , material body , person , physical body , physique ,
soma , trunk