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Definition of inanimate in English: inanimateadjective ɪnˈanɪmətɪnˈænəmət 1Not alive. inanimate objects like stones 像石头那样无生命的物体。 Example sentencesExamples - The viruses associated with the cold and flu can survive on inanimate objects and skin for up to three hours.
- I personally think it's the people who pull the triggers that kill people, guns are just inanimate objects, machines that can only work with a person present.
- One important distinction within the natural world is found in the fact that some natural substances are alive and others inanimate.
- The dolls are inanimate objects given life and the creation of more of them lets the artists give flesh to the worries of the audience.
- When spirits inhabit inanimate objects, they cease being inanimate.
- First, it's a document, a mighty one, but still an inanimate object.
- I know it's not normal to shout and swear at the television - it is, after all, an inanimate object - but that is what I do.
- In fact I have heard that good chess masters now study computer games and learn new strategies from those inanimate models.
- And third, does not anthropomorphism require the transposition of human qualities onto an inanimate object?
- Wind chill does not affect inanimate objects, nor does it affect people who are sheltered from the wind.
- The national poll to choose a flower for each county mirrors the US, where each state lays claims to a series of inanimate objects as their own.
- Even when we are a little the worse for wear through drink, our natural inclination to apologise to pets and inanimate objects comes to the fore.
- Those of you who have visited my photoblog may think that my passion in photography lies in capturing scenery, landscapes and inanimate objects.
- There may also be inappropriate use of toys, obsessive spinning of objects or attachment to inanimate objects.
- But the single biggest cause of snowmobiling casualties are inanimate objects.
- All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks.
- The word ‘article’ means something inanimate which is not and never has been alive.
- I still have occasional empathy with inanimate objects.
- One of the other themes that run through your work is anthropomorphic or inanimate objects that come to life in some way.
- Hallucinatory content can include inanimate objects, people, animals, plants and bunches of flowers, trees, and complete scenes.
- 1.1 Showing no sign of life; lifeless.
无生命迹象的,无生气的,无精打采的 he was completely inanimate and it was difficult to see if he was breathing 他毫无生命迹象,难以看出他是否还在呼吸。 Example sentencesExamples - In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background.
- His limbs were inanimate, leaving motion only to his prickly black hair dancing to the silent hum of the ocean.
- And still the numbers and names of the dead ‘hammer through his mind, inanimate as nails’.
Synonyms lifeless, insentient, insensate, without life, inert, motionless inorganic, non-organic, mineral dead, defunct, extinct rare exanimate, abiotic
Derivativesadverb Relentlessly, she stared at the phone sitting inanimately on her desk, willing it to ring because there was no way she'd sacrifice her own pride and call Chris herself. Example sentencesExamples - My eyes wandered to the phone sitting inanimately, as it should have been, on my nightstand right beside my picture frame, which held a collage of pictures from over the years.
- Raine yelped in pain as her body hit the wall like a rag-doll, falling to the ground inanimately.
- The two men had stood there for what must have been an hour, staring inanimately at the carcass that lay before them.
- He proceeded to remain there, almost inanimately, for the whole of the class.
noun -ˈmeɪʃ(ə)n
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin inanimatus 'lifeless', from in- 'not' + animatus (see animate). Definition of inanimate in US English: inanimateadjectiveinˈanəmətɪnˈænəmət 1Not alive, especially not in the manner of animals and humans. 无生命的(尤指不似动物和人那样具有生命的) inanimate objects like stones 像石头那样无生命的物体。 Example sentencesExamples - And third, does not anthropomorphism require the transposition of human qualities onto an inanimate object?
- I personally think it's the people who pull the triggers that kill people, guns are just inanimate objects, machines that can only work with a person present.
- But the single biggest cause of snowmobiling casualties are inanimate objects.
- All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks.
- There may also be inappropriate use of toys, obsessive spinning of objects or attachment to inanimate objects.
- Those of you who have visited my photoblog may think that my passion in photography lies in capturing scenery, landscapes and inanimate objects.
- Hallucinatory content can include inanimate objects, people, animals, plants and bunches of flowers, trees, and complete scenes.
- I know it's not normal to shout and swear at the television - it is, after all, an inanimate object - but that is what I do.
- The dolls are inanimate objects given life and the creation of more of them lets the artists give flesh to the worries of the audience.
- The viruses associated with the cold and flu can survive on inanimate objects and skin for up to three hours.
- The national poll to choose a flower for each county mirrors the US, where each state lays claims to a series of inanimate objects as their own.
- I still have occasional empathy with inanimate objects.
- Even when we are a little the worse for wear through drink, our natural inclination to apologise to pets and inanimate objects comes to the fore.
- When spirits inhabit inanimate objects, they cease being inanimate.
- One important distinction within the natural world is found in the fact that some natural substances are alive and others inanimate.
- Wind chill does not affect inanimate objects, nor does it affect people who are sheltered from the wind.
- First, it's a document, a mighty one, but still an inanimate object.
- One of the other themes that run through your work is anthropomorphic or inanimate objects that come to life in some way.
- The word ‘article’ means something inanimate which is not and never has been alive.
- In fact I have heard that good chess masters now study computer games and learn new strategies from those inanimate models.
- 1.1 Showing no sign of life; lifeless.
无生命迹象的,无生气的,无精打采的 he was completely inanimate and it was difficult to see if he was breathing 他毫无生命迹象,难以看出他是否还在呼吸。 Example sentencesExamples - His limbs were inanimate, leaving motion only to his prickly black hair dancing to the silent hum of the ocean.
- And still the numbers and names of the dead ‘hammer through his mind, inanimate as nails’.
- In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background.
Synonyms lifeless, insentient, insensate, without life, inert, motionless
OriginLate Middle English: from late Latin inanimatus ‘lifeless’, from in- ‘not’ + animatus (see animate). |