Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The human body excluding the head and limbs; trunk.
- noun A statue of the human body with the head and limbs omitted or removed.
- noun A truncated or unfinished thing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In sculpture, the trunk of a statue, without, or considered independently of, the head and limbs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The part of the (
human )body from theneck to thegroin , that is, the body excluding the head andlimbs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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And the scar that runs the length of my torso is the markings of an earthquake
Eve Ensler: The Gift of Cancer Eve Ensler 2010
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And the scar that runs the length of my torso is the markings of an earthquake
Eve Ensler: The Gift of Cancer Eve Ensler 2010
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And the scar that runs the length of my torso is the markings of an earthquake
Eve Ensler: The Gift of Cancer Eve Ensler 2010
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And the scar that runs the length of my torso is the markings of an earthquake
Eve Ensler: The Gift of Cancer Eve Ensler 2010
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And the scar that runs the length of my torso is the markings of an earthquake
Eve Ensler: The Gift of Cancer Eve Ensler 2010
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Step four: Bend over at the waist till your torso is paralell to the ground. (consult someone MUCH smarter than you are to explain what paralell means and what a torso is)
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Image Credit WikimediaThe upper torso is hard and has a Primary Life Support System attached to it.
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It looked down at the sensor-shaped burn marks dotting its main torso and then up into my lenses.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » September : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Michael Phelps 'remarkably long torso is like the hull of a boat, his coach says, allowing him to ride high on the water.
Built to swim, Phelps found a focus and refuge in water 2008
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Her torso is too long for the jacket or too short for the dress.
Rightsize Me 2007
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