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Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- (sciences) Any member of the kingdom Animalia of multicellular organisms that are usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing them from plants and fungi) and which derive energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (further distinguishing them from plants).
- (loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
- (loosely) A higher animal; an animal related to humans.
- (colloquial) A tetrapod; a land-dwelling nonhuman vertebrate.
- A warm-blooded animal; a mammal or bird.
- A non-human mammal.
- (figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
- (informal) A person of a particular type specified by an adjective.
- (informal) Matter, thing.
Adjektiivi
- Of or relating to animals.
- Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
- Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
- (slang, Ireland) Excellent.
Esimerkit
- A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.
- Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
- My students are animals.
- a political animal
- animal instincts
- animal passions
- 2003, To explain what activated the flesh, ‘animal spirits’ were posited, superfine fluids which shuttled between the mind and the vitals, conveying messages and motion. — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 47)
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