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Definition of Body type
1. Noun. A category of physique.
Generic synonyms: Body-build, Build, Habitus, Physique
Specialized synonyms: Asthenic Type, Ectomorphy, Endomorphy, Pyknic Type, Athletic Type, Mesomorphy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Type
Literary usage of Body type
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Modern Gasoline Automobile: Its Design, Construction, Maintenance and by Victor Wilfred Pagé (1915)
"Outline of Exaggerated Torpedo body type, Seldom Seen Except in Racing Cars.
viously, a practical touring car cannot be designed on exactly the same lines ..."
2. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1909)
"Lists are usually set in type that is at least 2 points smaller than the body
type used in the advertisement. If the body matter, for example, is in 8-point ..."
3. Handbook for Newspaper Workers, Treating Grammar, Punctuation, English by Grant Milnor Hyde (1921)
"Through the fact that in display type, the face is not placed in the same position
on the shoulder as in body type (the base line is higher), the two kinds ..."
4. A Course in Journalistic Writing by Grant Milnor Hyde (1922)
"(e) Size of body type. Column width governs to a large extent the size of body
... With average body type of various sizes, the maximum and minimum column ..."
5. Collected Studies on Immunity by Paul Ehrlich (1906)
"be represented by immune body type 6, which is activated by a different complement
also ... Immune body type a is present in ten times the amount of type b. ..."
6. Textbook of Printing Occupations by Clifford Wilson Hague (1922)
"Body Matter — Composition in straight paragraph form, set with body type, ...
body type—Plain face type, less than 18 pt., used for body matter is called ..."
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