inanimate
adjective
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/ɪˈnæn.ɪ.mət/ us
/ɪˈnæn.ə.mət/Meaning of inanimate in English
(Definition of inanimate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
inanimate | American Dictionary
an inanimate object
Examples of inanimate
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Collections are 'typically inanimate', they occur 'readily in the plural, but when singular cannot contract plural concord with the verb'.
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Similarly, the existence of state class failed to show a significant difference between the two auxiliaries, both in the animate and the inanimate variant.
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For the existence of state class, both animate and inanimate subjects were tested.
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If the subject refers to an inanimate entity affecting a human direct object, the genitive is obligatory for the direct object.
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For inanimate matter, this protoconsciousness is something so simple and primitive that we would hardly recognize it as consciousness at all.
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We also noted that o-mano counts as inanimate.
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The vehicles represented inanimate objects, possessing wheels and more straight line contours.
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Participants judged whether a word referred to a living thing (an ' 'animate' ' entity) or to non-living thing (an ' 'inanimate' ' entity).
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Far from being the inanimate stuff typically envisioned by modern thought, materials in this original sense are the active constituents of a world-in-formation.
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The great majority of noun modifiers are again, throughout the various time intervals, inanimate.
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Nor, finally, is whose avoided with inanimate antecedents.
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As animate entities were both more conceptually and lexically accessible retrieval of these entities from memory should be faster than retrieval of the inanimate agent.
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As noted before, impersonal passives were less acceptable for inanimate subjects but this difference failed to reach significance (see figure 5).
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Broadly considered, selection does occur in the inanimate world, often providing a formative step in the production of order.
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Table 3 lists the absolute frequencies of animate versus inanimate subjects in the cor pus.
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cansız, ölü…
inanimé…
levenloos…
neživý…
død…
tidak hidup…
ซึ่งไม่มีชีวิต…
vô tri…
nieożywiony…
inte levande, livlös, död…
tidak hidup…
leblos…
død, livløs…
неживий, бездушний…
неодушевленный…
