Animate Thing (Noun)
Meaning
A living (or once living) entity.
Classification
Unique beginner for nouns.
Examples
- The tiny creature in the garden was the smallest animate thing he had ever seen.
- Her job was to study and classify each animate thing in the vast collection of specimens.
- In her experience, every animate thing was a link in the delicate and intricate web of life.
- It was difficult to determine whether the fossilized remains represented an animate thing that was long extinct.
- In his dream, he was an animate thing of pure energy, able to pass through walls and move through time.