What is a case?Approximately everyone knows this, since this word is actively used in speech. Let's learn more about all its meanings, as well as about the origin and peculiarities of the formation of the plural for the noun "corpus".
Like most concepts of foreignorigin, the term appeared in the Russian language under Peter I. It was borrowed from Latin (from the word corpus), through the mediation of either Polish or German noun korpus. In those days, the Poles actively enriched their vocabulary with German terms, so today it is already impossible to pinpoint exactly where this name first came from.
The first written use of the word "corpus" dates back to 1705. Probably, in oral speech, it appeared much earlier.
First of all, this noun has becomeuse in medicine, speaking of the torso of a human or animal. And today this value continues to be relevant, but it is more often used in official documentation, while ordinary people use its synonyms instead of the word “body” - torso and torso.
In addition to medical books and reports of forensic examinations, in this sense the term is often used by trainers of fitness centers, dance schools and sanatoriums and dispensaries.
What other answer can be heard on the question:"What is a body?". So called the hard outer shell of something. For example, any technology or electronic devices. Many people have such stable phrases as “computer case”, “cell phone case”, “watch case” and others.
By the way, today the manufacture of casesfor various devices - this is a business area, and very profitable. Thanks to the development of modern technologies, especially 3D printing, everyone can order plastic cases for anything from a USB flash drive or keyring to a sewing machine and not only for a modest fee. Of course, the housing for the device can also be made from other materials, for example, from wood or metal. And they will be much stronger. However, plastic cases are by far the cheapest and easiest to manufacture.
Often a building is called a specific building, located among several similar ones, as well as an isolated large part of the building.
Стоит помнить, что дом и корпус – это не одно и the same, there is a difference between these words. In theory, buildings are parts of a single house that do not have direct access to the main street where the building is located. But in practice, often each of them is a fully-fledged structure. It is ranked in a specific building in order not to change the numbering of houses along the whole street.
So, for example, on Kievskaya Street there are 10houses: 5 on the even side and 5 on the odd side. After some time, another similar building is being built between houses 3 and 5. Of course, he can be given a separate number, but because of this, he will have to renumber the whole street - and this is a huge paperwork and a lot of problems with changing the address for the inhabitants of other houses.
In order not to create this confusion, the new structure"Attributed" to one of the nearest houses: for example, to the third, and give him a letter (in this case, "a"). The address of the new building is formed: Kievskaya Street, house 3-a (the letter indicates that this is not the main building, but its separate building). The street thus grows, but it’s not necessary to change house numbers. By the way, if over time, 2 more buildings appear next to the same third building, they will be numbered - building 3-b and 3-c.
This term is also very actively used in military terminology.
There are a number of other interpretations of this noun, not so often used:
Having dealt with the fact that such a corpus and where this word came from in Russian, you should pay attention to its plural number.
The fact is that in the Russian language this term has 2 variants of the plural: corpus and corpus. In order not to be mistaken with the choice, one must clearly know in which lexical meaning the word is used.
