Animal
['ænɪm(ə)l] or ['ænɪml]
Definition
(noun.) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement.
(adj.) marked by the appetites and passions of the body; 'animal instincts'; 'carnal knowledge'; 'fleshly desire'; 'a sensual delight in eating'; 'music is the only sensual pleasure without vice' .
Typist: Loretta--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
(n.) One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
(a.) Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
(a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
(a.) Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Creature, living being, created being.[2]. Beast, BRUTE, irrational creature, dumb creature, beast of the field, fowl of the air, denizen of the deep.
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Definition
n. an organised being having life sensation and voluntary motion—it is distinguished from a plant which is organised and has life but not sensation or voluntary motion: the name sometimes implies the absence of the higher faculties peculiar to man.—adj. of or belonging to animals: sensual.—n. Animalisā′tion the act of converting into animal substance or of endowing with animal attributes: brutalisation.—v.t. An′imalise to endow with animal life: to convert into animal matter:—pr.p. an′imalīsing; pa.p. an′imalīsed.—n. An′imalism the state of being actuated by animal appetites only: the exercise or enjoyment of animal life as distinct from intellectual: brutishness: sensuality: (rare) a mere animal being.—adv. An′imally physically merely.—Animal spirits nervous force: exuberance of health and life: cheerful buoyancy of temper: (Milton) the spirit or principle of volition and sensation.
Typist: Rudy
Examples
- Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The animal was not there at all, only the heavy, broken beauty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The room was charged with excitement and strong, animal emotion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How a living animal obtains its quantity of this fluid, called fire, is a curious question. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Volta of Pavia, took decided issue with Galvani and maintained that the pretended animal electricity was nothing but electricity developed by the contact of two different metals. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Trolley circuits are usually 500 volts, and will kill an animal, but are not necessarily fatal to man. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A fish is a vertebrated animal that breathes by gills and can live only in water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gerald looked at him, and with a slight revulsion saw the human animal, golden skinned and bare, somehow humiliating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The case, however, is different when an animal, during any part of its embryonic career, is active, and has to provide for itself. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He therefore concluded that the stored-up fat in the animal was then converted into cream, and that it was practicable, therefore, to convert beef fat into butter fat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The flag drops and covers the eyes of the animal so that he is at a loss what to do; it is jerked from him and the torment is renewed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The monkey was killed, and an order made, that no such animal should be kept about the palace. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- From 10 to 15 minutes only are required to convert the living animal into dressed pork. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- What is it but the worst and last form of intellectualism, this love of yours for passion and the animal instincts? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. Plato. The Republic.
- We can clearly discern this in the case of animals with simple habits. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I will go and select one before the choice animals are all taken. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Hadn't they better be animals, simple animals, crude, violent, ANYTHING, rather than this self-consciousness, this incapacity to be spontaneous. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On a meat dietary men can live without salt, but grain-consuming people need it just as herbivorous animals need it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While I am speaking of animals, I will mention that I have a horse now by the name of Jericho. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Receiving this reply, Mr. Godfrey Ablewhite did, what all animals (human and otherwise) do, when they find themselves caught in a trap. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- A few days of rest were necessary to recuperate the animals and also to have them shod and put in condition for moving. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This is the order of nature, to prevent animals being infected by their own perspiration. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Out of the question, sir,' remarked Sam Weller, coming to assist in the conference; 'it's a cruelty to animals, sir, to ask 'em to do it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A set of animals, with their organisation but little diversified, could hardly compete with a set more perfectly diversified in structure. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The skins of the larger animals were the original materials of clothing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We have all heard of certain animals sleeping through the long winter months and most of us have probably wondered what happens to them when they do this. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Nay, the very animals in a democratic State have a freedom which is unknown in other places. Plato. The Republic.
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