a large or complete collection of writings: the entire corpus of Old English poetry.
the body of a person or animal, especially when dead.
Anatomy. a body, mass, or part having a special character or function.
Linguistics. a body of utterances, as words or sentences, assumed to be representative of and used for lexical, grammatical, or other linguistic analysis.
a principal or capital sum, as opposed to interest or income.
Origin of corpus
First recorded in 1225–75; Middle English, from Latin
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH corpus
core, corps, corpse, corpus
Words nearby corpus
corpsman, Corps of Engineers, corpulence, corpulent, cor pulmonale, corpus, corpus albicans, corpus amylaceum, corpus callosum, corpus cavernosum, Corpus Christi
The researchers also found a “significant amount of fake news” in the training corpus, Sap said.
Your favorite A.I. language tool is toxic|jonathanvanian2015|September 29, 2020|Fortune
Especially with the corpus of cash its digital arm Jio Platforms has amassed just this year.
Will anyone buy TikTok’s business in India?|Ananya Bhattacharya|September 18, 2020|Quartz
Then they can simply be “fine-tuned” on a smaller corpus to improve performance on a specific task—for example, classifying news articles by topic, summarizing paragraphs, or predicting the sentences that follow a given input.
Welcome to the Next Level of Bullshit - Issue 89: The Dark Side|Raphaël Millière|September 9, 2020|Nautilus
In the 20th and 21st centuries, some researchers found the whole corpus callosum is proportionally larger in women on average while others found only certain parts are bigger.
Brain Scientists Haven’t Been Able To Find Major Differences Between Women’s And Men’s Brains, Despite Over A Century Of Searching|LGBTQ-Editor|August 13, 2020|No Straight News
The seizure corpus helped “label” much of the data—somewhat similar to labeling data in supervised machine learning—paving the road for machines to better “read” human electrical brain recordings.
How a Crowdsourcing Challenge Turbocharged Brain Research During Lockdown|Shelly Fan|June 2, 2020|Singularity Hub
The local churches were celebrating The Feast of Corpus Christi by launching brilliantly exploding rockets into the night.
Spirit Tripping With Colombian Shamans|Chris Allbritton|August 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And Rep. Blake Farenthold made it onto the list of “notable people” from Corpus Christi, Texas.
@CongressEdits Helps You Track Your Congressman’s Vanity in Real Time|Tim Mak|July 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There was also a memorable encounter while disembarking at Corpus Christi.
My Big Fat Greek Book Tour: Nia Vardalos Promotes ‘Instant Mom’|Lloyd Grove|May 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Hernandez was well-known in their rough Corpus Christi neighborhood as an unsavory character.
10 Shocking Bits From Book About How Texas Executed an Innocent Man|Ben Jacobs|May 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
So did readers of the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in Texas, the Indianapolis Star and the Pensacola News Journal.
Murdoch’s Other Scandal|Pat Kiernan|July 21, 2011|DAILY BEAST
There was but one reception by a head (Corpus) that was not decidedly kind, and that was only a little cold.
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3)|John Morley
Did not St. Paul assert, Castigo corpus meum et in servitutem redigo?
Curiosities of Olden Times|S. Baring-Gould
I saw the great procession at Antwerp on Corpus Christi day; it was very splendid.
Albert Durer|T. Sturge Moore
The south transept, containing the Corpus Christi and Cellet's chantries, has lost its original character completely.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Churches of Coventry|Frederic W. Woodhouse
After awhile the cavity of the corpus luteum contracts, and the opening into it closes.
A System of Midwifery|Edward Rigby
British Dictionary definitions for corpus
corpus
/ (ˈkɔːpəs) /
nounplural-pora (-pərə)
a collection or body of writings, esp by a single author or on a specific topicthe corpus of Dickens' works
the main body, section, or substance of something
anatomy
any distinct mass or body
the main part of an organ or structure
the inner layer or layers of cells of the meristem at a shoot tip, which produces the vascular tissue and pithCompare tunica (def. 2)
linguisticsa body of data, esp the finite collection of grammatical sentences of a language that a linguistic theory seeks to describe by means of an algorithm
a capital or principal sum, as contrasted with a derived income