Body-Mass-Index

body Noun

— A body is the main part of a person, animal, physical object, or organisation. After falling out of the tree, his arm was broken and his body hurt all over. The governing body of the UN meets in Geneva. — A body is a dead person or animal. The police found her body after she had been missing for three days. — A body is a group of people. The senate is an important legislative body in the United States. — A body of something is a lot on it together in one place. Lake Michigan is a large body of water. — A body is a thing that all moves together. The moon is a body in orbit around Earth.

mass Noun

— A measure of how much material is in something. The Earth has much more mass than the moon. The spacesuit weighed 75 pounds on Earth but here in outer space it weighed nothing, although its mass was exactly the same. — Much material. A mass of dirty branches stopped the river. — A Christian ceremony in memory of . He goes to mass every Sunday. — A crowd of people. A mass of protesters gathered at city hall.

index Noun

— An index is an alphabetical (A to Z) list, usually at the back of a book, where you can find the pages in a book that talk about particular things or words. Look in the index to see where they talk about Chomsky. — An index shows the level of prices, wages, etc. so you can compare them with those of an earlier date. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones index closed 10 points up at 2,731.23.

index Verb

— If you index something, you make an index (guide) for it. — If you index something to a certain price level, you make it go up or down with that level.