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animālis — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • animal noun A living, moving organism that feeds on other organisms rather than making its own food, as distinct from plants and fungi.
  • animate verb To bring something to life, or to make a picture or object appear to move on its own.
  • living adj Alive, currently existing (as opposed to dead or extinct).

Senses

animālis is used for these senses in English:

animal — full definition

  1. noun A living, moving organism that feeds on other organisms rather than making its own food, as distinct from plants and fungi.
  2. noun Any creature other than a human, especially a mammal.
  3. noun Informal: a person who acts in a wild, brutal, or uncontrolled way.
  4. adj Relating to animals, or driven by raw physical instinct rather than reason.

animate — full definition

  1. verb To bring something to life, or to make a picture or object appear to move on its own.
  2. verb To give energy, purpose, or excitement to something.
  3. adj Alive, or full of energy and movement.

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