adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
inanimate objects (= things that are not alive )
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scientists studying plants, animals, or inanimate objects
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
object
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This makes the study of human beings different from that of animals and of inanimate objects .
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Some people, for example, take on the persona of an animal or a monster or an inanimate object .
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It forces them to tease out information from inanimate objects .
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Frankly, I never used to feel guilty about disappointing inanimate objects .
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The Bible as holy literature, the oracles of the Logos, has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation.
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If either of these inanimate objects knows you are going to dump it, it will turn on you.
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The distinction applies to nouns which refer to animate beings as well as those which refer to inanimate objects .
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His world was filled with copulating inanimate objects and people getting their faces ripped off.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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How can you get angry with a car? It's an inanimate object!
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Some languages categorise not only living things as masculine or feminine, but inanimate objects as well.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And yes, the baby is just your standard inanimate stage bundle.
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Everything animate and inanimate followed him.
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For, instance, inanimate objects are typically easier to identify than animate objects.
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If we are imaginative enough we can project ourselves inside plants and inanimate objects as well as other animals.
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Only the inanimate objects in view were registered on the plates.
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The fall back to the beast and beyond even that-to mere inanimate existence-is complete.
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The Minoans also regarded certain inanimate objects as incarnations of a deity.
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They seek life's meaning in possessions, and use inanimate objects to tell other Earthlets who they are.