Meaning of carcass | Babel Free

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1. The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh.
2. The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh
3. The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc.
4. The physical frame of a dead person or animal:body, cadaver, corpse, remains.
5. The body of a slaughtered animal, stripped of unwanted viscera, etc
6. The body of a dead human, a corpse.
7. a dead body, usually animal, not human. The carcasses of various animals hung in the butcher's shop. karkas جيفَـه животински труп carcaça poražené zvíře der Kadaver ådsel; kadaver κουφάρι res abierta en canal korjus لاشه؛ مردار حیوان raato carcasse גְוִויָה जानवर का कंकाल truplo, kostur tetem bangkai, daging skrokkur; hræ carcassa （動物の）死体、屠殺体 시체 skerdena kautķermenis daging karkaskadaver, åtsel, skrott tusza لاپى، حلال شوى حيوان چه دخوړلودپاره چمتو شوى وى carcassa carcasă туша zabité zviera ...
   usually
8. The body of a dead human, a corpse
9. The body of a live person or animal.
   slang
10. The dead body of an animal, especially one slaughtered for food.
11. The body of a live person or animal
12. The framework of a structure, such as a cabinet, especially one not normally seen.
13. The body of a human.
14. The framework of a structure, such as a cabinet, especially one not normally seen
15. An early incendiary ship-to-ship projectile consisting of an iron shell filled with saltpetre, sulphur, resin, turpentine, antimony and tallow with vents for flame.
16. Remains from which the substance or character is gone: the carcass of a former empire.
17. A framework or basic structure: the carcass of a burned-out house.
18. the dead body of an animal, esp one that has been slaughtered for food, with the head, limbs, and entrails removed
19. informal usually facetious or derogatory a person's body
    informal
20. the skeleton or framework of a structure
21. the remains of anything when its life or vitality is gone; shell

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Examples

“Plate 31, figure B shows a desiccated carcass in the ventral position with a sharp S curvature in the vertebral column. Such pronounced drying-out of a carcass probably happens only when it is quickly carried to a dry place and exposed to the strong rays of the sun.”

“Despite all of the groups' experiences with leopards and carcasses in trees, neither the vervets nor the baboons gave alarm calls at the sight of the carcass alone.”

“Instead, the majority of studies involve freezing the carcasses until time permits the analysis.”

“1961, D. M. Doty, John C. Pierce, Beef Muscle Characteristics as Related to Carcass Grade, Carcass Weight, and Degree of Aging, US Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin No. 1231, page 33, Lean flavor scores for this muscle were lower than those for ribeye, especially in Prime grade carcasses.”

“The most important is the carcass but the liver, kidneys and, to a limited extent, various other visceral components also have value as food items.[…]For example, the carcasses from sheep and cattle have the head removed immediately after slaughter but in pigs this may be delayed until after chilling and further butchery.”

“In some countries, there is still a significant trade in chicken carcasses that have been plucked, but not eviscerated, by the producer. Subsequently, the carcass may be eviscerated by a butcher or in the kitchen of the consumer.”

“And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d: / And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes, / Share equally the gold that bought their liues, / And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]”

“And the carkeiſes of this people ſhall be meate for the fowles of the heauen, and for the beaſts of the earth, and none ſhall fray them away.”

“A Churliſh Envious Curr vvas gotten into a Manger, and there lay Growling and Snarling to keep the Horſes from their Provender. The Dog Eat None himſelf, and yet rather Ventur'd the Starving his Own Carcaſe then he would ſuffer any thing elfe to be the Better for't.”

“"If you saw the care she takes over hoisting her beastly old carcass up and down those stairs, you could make a sure bet against her having another accident there."”

“The tyres used on DC-8s have a tread portion that contains three fabric re-enforcing layers. These layers protect the tyre carcass to some extent against foreign object damage. A tyre tread, however, does not contribute to the carcass integrity^([sic]); even when a tyre is worn to the third fabric layer, the normal change point, it does not lose any structural integrity. The mandatory change point for a tyre is when it is worn to the carcass layer; however, at this point, the tyre could not undergo a retread.”

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