Significado de creature en inglés

creature

noun [ C ]

/ˈkriː.tʃər/ us

/ˈkriː.tʃɚ/

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any large or small living thing that can move independently:

Rainforests are filled with amazing creatures.

living creature Don't all living creatures have certain rights?

Blue whales are the largest creatures ever to have lived.

used to refer to a life form that is unusual or imaginary:

The unicorn is a mythical creature.

The film was about creatures from outer space.

The duck-billed platypus is a truly bizarre creature.

used to refer to a person when an opinion is being expressed about them:

poor creature These poor creatures were starving and dressed in rags.

He's an odd creature in many ways.

He seemed to think that women were mysterious creatures.

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The unicorn is a fabulous creature.
Strangely, no one believed us when we told them we'd been visited by a creature from Mars.
We saw many creatures of the forest.
His book examines the symbolism of many mythical creatures.
The log was home to all sorts of little creatures.

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be the creature of someone/something

creature of habit

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creature

noun [ C ]

/ˈkri·tʃər/

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any living thing, esp. an animal

A creature can be a person when an opinion is being expressed about them:

It seems clear to me that people are creatures of emotion.

Expresión

creature of habit

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Ejemplos de creature

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The front cover is graced by a group of indisputably bird-like creatures.

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Moral accomplishments, in a world of creatures immune to harm, would not matter.

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Suppose the best world a given omnipotent and omniscient creator could actualize contains creatures who endure incredible amounts of pain.

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The apparent alternative is not to create any free creatures or else not leave them significantly free.

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He believes that: "the field needs some application successes, tools to understand biological systems, and the consideration of features of biological creatures such as metabolism".

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Another, less ambitious, possibility is that creatures' actions merely satisfy the principles.

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Many virtual creatures are intended by their human creators as computer simulations of real life.

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The alleged incoherence thus consists in being committed to holding that creatures are both continuants and non-continuants.

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Such creatures would be ' perfectly reasonable ' in the sense that they could never be weak-willed in their pursuit of the good.

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I see no reason to suppose that an omnipotent creator would be unable to produce creatures like these.

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What understanding of the creature's causal contribution will allow us to maintain that such theories really are co-operative ?

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Of two creatures in nature it is the one with a more truthful and reliable picture of the world that survives and propagates its genes.

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After all, such beings would want their creatures to know all sorts of things about them.

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Sightings of man-like creatures that continued to be reported, by both sailors and fishermen, fuelled the many folk legends that developed.

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His creatures are interactive with other machines, commencing with simple patterns of behaviour and evolving to more complex ones.

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alien creature

The object of having the alien creature is, so we are told, to improve access to justice.

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aquatic creature

The moment any small aquatic creature touches the inside of the bill -- an insect, crustacean, or tiny fish -- it is snapped shut.

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beautiful creature

It was clearly the husband's fault; he marched off with some beautiful creature leaving the wife and children and everything else.

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