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animal
 I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a human/animal/plant cell
▪ the structure of plant cells
animal experiments (=experiments using animals)
▪ I think most animal experiments are cruel and unnecessary.
animal husbandry
animal instinct
▪ It's animal instinct to attack the leader of the herd when his strength begins to fail.
animal lovers
▪ animal lovers
animal rights activists/campaigners/groups etc
▪ Bill has been involved in the animal rights movement for years.
animal rights
▪ Animal rights campaigners say the dogs are being bred in terrible conditions.
animal rights
▪ Bill has been involved in the animal rights movement for years.
bird/animal/plant species
▪ You can see many different bird species on the canal.
farm animals
▪ It is used mainly for feeding farm animals.
human/animal anatomy
▪ Knowledge of human anatomy is essential to figure drawing.
human/animal behaviour
▪ the scientific study of human behaviour
▪ detailed observations of animal behaviour
human/animal bones
▪ They dug up a lot of human bones from under the castle.
pack animal
party animal
plant/animal ecology (=the animals, plants etc that live in a particular place)
▪ a new book about the plant ecology of this fascinating area
political/gay/animal rights etc activist
stuffed animal
the higher animals/mammals/organisms etc (=animals etc that are more intelligent or advanced than others)
wild animals
▪ wild animals
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
 ADJECTIVE
domestic
▪ The founding of these organisations gave real impetus to a movement directed towards improving the lot of domestic animals.
▪ Although the afflicted creatures do not behave aggressively, Fosco said, they still pose a threat to domestic animals.
▪ Diseases similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy have recently been reported in several species of domestic and zoo animals.
▪ Familiarity alone prevents our seeing how universally and largely the minds of our domestic animals have been modified by domestication.
▪ The economy was mixed with remains of wheat, grinding stones and iron sickles indicating agriculture alongside the remains of domestic animals.
▪ Such rules serve to distinguish further basic social categories: friends from enemies, domestic animals from wild beasts, and so on.
▪ The lack of fish remains and the presence of bones of domestic animals suggests that food supply was no problem.
▪ The trouble is that Barbary apes are not domestic animals.
large
▪ Cleo staggered back from the loving assault being bestowed upon her by the two larger animals.
▪ And then I see a large brown animal.
▪ There was a noise in the room, like the breathing of some large animal.
▪ The basic food of herbivores is plants, so even the largest carnivorous animals are indirectly dependent on plants.
▪ Generally the larger the animal, the greater the concern with its ill-treatment.
▪ When there is a severe food shortage, the first to suffer are the larger animals.
▪ Drove roads have wide verges originally to accommodate large numbers of animals on the move.
▪ The method adopted by larger animals to speed up the distribution of essential materials is to force carrier-fluid through transport systems.
small
▪ Larger animals require more food than smaller animals, but smaller animals have a higher metabolic rate.
▪ That brush is a shelter for small animals and birds as well as a critical repository of seeds from native plants.
▪ In all of these places you will find a wide variety of interesting small animals.
▪ At first it was too dark to make out the small animal, but eventually I made out two white-throated sparrows.
▪ Put these in a shallow dish and look for small animals on the stems and on the underside of leaves.
▪ In early days the packs had concentrated on the caribou, but the semi-domestic, smaller animals were easier prey.
▪ The quarters of a small animal were wrapped in a leather sack and tied to a tree's branch.
▪ It sounded like small animals running up and down.
wild
▪ A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
▪ The cypress was sacred to her; and all wild animals, but especially the deer.
▪ The philosophy of animal rights calls for an end to the capture and training of wild animals, for purposes of entertainment.
▪ The Cro-Magnon cave paintings demonstrate that wild animals also can be part of the family.
▪ Once I used a gun to shoot a wild animal.
▪ So what accounts for the enduring appeal of wild animal patterns?
▪ To be tom apart by wild animals.
▪ Many of the stringed instruments imitate the sounds of horses; wind instruments imitate the sounds of birds and other wild animals.
NOUN
farm
▪ Under increasing public pressure, farmers are taking a greater interest in free-range systems which give a fairer deal to farm animals.
▪ The farm animals begin to stir, the roosters consider crowing.
▪ The next shelf we stopped on was filled with farm animals.
▪ If you use straw as bedding for farm animals, generally speaking you improve the welfare of those animals.
▪ Read in studio Farm animals have been killed and thousands of bales of hay destroyed in a barn fire.
▪ Look out for our forthcoming profile of Sir Richard Body, and articles on farm animal welfare.
▪ There have also been cases where children have experienced food poisoning after touching farm animals.
kingdom
▪ The animal kingdom does not display a linear pattern of species linking the lowest forms to humankind.
▪ Such a crude lie can surely be perceived by that genius of the animal kingdom, humans.
▪ It is possible that the entire animal kingdom is the inevitable by-product of the process.
▪ With man effort not often matched in the animal kingdom, he overcame that considerable obstacle.
▪ They are the tanks of the animal kingdom, and they come in many forms.
▪ This we shall see to be as true of man as of any of his relatives in the animal kingdom.
▪ The animal kingdom gets its fair share of attention as children learn how to care for pets.
▪ The circles were full up, and therefore man was not a part of the animal kingdom at all.
life
▪ The animal life is also very rich.
▪ Strictly speaking, of course, there are no ends in animal life for a Darwinian.
▪ He recognizes his kinship and identity with all men and with all forms of animal life.
▪ To many biologists, it provides the key to explaining the complexities of animal life.
▪ He pedalled along the canal bank quite slowly, keeping his eyes skinned for signs of defunct animal life.
▪ Without oxygen animal life on earth would not be possible.
▪ The growth of the human embryo recapitulated the history of animal life as revealed by the fossil record.
▪ But co-operation and self-sacrifice also exist, even at quite basic levels of conscious animal life.
welfare
▪ Why is the Minister so inconsistent in his approach to animal welfare?
▪ Each year animal welfare groups document instances of cruelty, but prosecutions have been rare.
▪ Look out for our forthcoming profile of Sir Richard Body, and articles on farm animal welfare.
▪ Brigitte, 58, who devotes her life to animal welfare, said she felt 17 again.
▪ That change would be in the best interests of the meat industry, the consumer and animal welfare.
▪ Material also available on animal welfare, patterns of food consumption and grassland utilisation.
▪ Worries about pollution levels from intensive indoor units and growing concern about animal welfare are also motivating factors.
▪ There will also be an increase in humanitarian concerns about animal welfare.
world
▪ His response is to abandon the troubled human mind, and delve into the animal world instead.
▪ It is not true that the will to power alone characterises the animal world.
▪ Our whole vocation is to transcend the baser instincts of the animal world and be stewards and not spoilers of creation.
▪ There is always a lot going on the animal world and not always enough room to print it.
▪ It is the most potent poison known to us from the entire animal world.
▪ Equally vulnerable to human weapons are the armoured giants of the animal world, the rhinos and the elephants.
▪ And it invites the conclusion that rhodopsin-like compounds are a particularly favoured way of going about light detection in the animal world.
▪ The classic form of induced altruism in the animal world is, of course, the bird raising the cuckoo's egg.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dumb animals/creatures
▪ We would become like dumb animals, oxen, or go crazy, and probably both.
▪ Would that as many animal lovers were as quick to speak and defend dumb animals instead of staying silent as so many do.
▪ You don't have to look far to see these dumb creatures crawling across the branches of many organizations today.
the animal/plant/mineral kingdom
▪ It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom.
▪ Its object was to show the comparative structure and functions of organs throughout the animal kingdom.
▪ Molluscs Molluscs belong to the largest phylum in the animal kingdom and are a very varied group of animals.
▪ The circles were full up, and therefore man was not a part of the animal kingdom at all.
▪ They are the tanks of the animal kingdom, and they come in many forms.
▪ This we shall see to be as true of man as of any of his relatives in the animal kingdom.
▪ Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom.
▪ With man effort not often matched in the animal kingdom, he overcame that considerable obstacle.
the natural/animal/plant world
▪ He can live in and accept the natural world, yet his soul lofts upward.
▪ However we have seen that quantum theory places considerable restraint on a plain man's objectivist view of the natural world.
▪ In that casual gesture she trampled upon an awesome human achievement and upon great sacrifices contributed by the natural world.
▪ It is not true that the will to power alone characterises the animal world.
▪ Similarly, these continuing contests in the natural world were leading to areas which were specialised in their functions.
▪ The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world.
▪ We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ farm animals
▪ Get away from me, you animal!
▪ Glycogen is found in a variety of animal tissues, particularly the liver.
▪ wild animals in the jungle
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Animals contract the infection by eating feed that has been supplemented by the tissues of other infected animals.
▪ Apparently the animal can go all winter without food, but it periodically needs real sleep.
▪ Data on experimental animals show that it may be the long term consequence of glomerular haemodynamic abnormalities induced by long term hyperglycaemia.
▪ Go round the animals rather than walking through a group of them.
▪ My gut felt like I had reached my hand into a dying animal.
▪ The animals are, and he's got his comeuppance.
▪ We are merely animals, creatures that are brought kicking and screaming into this world and then die.
▪ We saw it as an opportunity to harvest an animal and help out Fish and Game.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
life
▪ In the end, plant and animal life is choked to death.
▪ They show not the slightest sign of that one essential attribute we think animal life should have: movement.
shelter
▪ While he continued to paint, James had taken a low-paying job at an animal shelter.
▪ Fifteen years ago you never saw a Rottweiler in an animal shelter.
▪ Contributions of money will help the league build an animal shelter.
species
▪ They suggested that human cultures might have evolved in a manner analogous to plant and animal species.
▪ This 11-acre sanctuary is home to more than 100 animal species and hundreds of species of plants.
▪ Some aquatic plants and animal species have become extinct.
welfare
▪ The study aims to determine what effect recent developments in technology and slaughterhouse design have had on animal welfare standards.
▪ Many animal welfare groups oppose padded steel-jawed traps.
▪ It is the money-making of animal rights organisations which science threatens, not animal welfare.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the animal/plant/mineral kingdom
▪ It ignores the obvious discriminations which we make between similar treatment of different species within the animal kingdom.
▪ Its object was to show the comparative structure and functions of organs throughout the animal kingdom.
▪ Molluscs Molluscs belong to the largest phylum in the animal kingdom and are a very varied group of animals.
▪ The circles were full up, and therefore man was not a part of the animal kingdom at all.
▪ They are the tanks of the animal kingdom, and they come in many forms.
▪ This we shall see to be as true of man as of any of his relatives in the animal kingdom.
▪ Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom.
▪ With man effort not often matched in the animal kingdom, he overcame that considerable obstacle.
the natural/animal/plant world
▪ He can live in and accept the natural world, yet his soul lofts upward.
▪ However we have seen that quantum theory places considerable restraint on a plain man's objectivist view of the natural world.
▪ In that casual gesture she trampled upon an awesome human achievement and upon great sacrifices contributed by the natural world.
▪ It is not true that the will to power alone characterises the animal world.
▪ Similarly, these continuing contests in the natural world were leading to areas which were specialised in their functions.
▪ The focus today is not the predicted disappearance of order but the abundance of it throughout the natural world.
▪ We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And, accordingly, the two retrievers trained by De Cagny for the film came from an animal rescue program.
▪ Both cut to pieces anything animal in their path, and both have acquired a mystique of terror in their own land.
▪ George Mendonca, a topiary gardener and real-life Edward Scissorhands who clips animal forms from plants.
▪ In the end, plant and animal life is choked to death.
▪ Road protesters, animal liberationists, that sort of thing.
▪ She also was a benefactor to other health support groups and animal charities.
▪ There are constant reminders that we, too, are animal beings and part of nature, not mere observers.
▪ We have also prepared many animal carcasses or parts of them as study specimens.
animal
I. an‧i‧mal1 S1 W1 /ˈænəməl, ˈænɪməl/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Latin; Origin : animalis 'having life', from anima 'soul']
1. a living creature such as a dog or cat, that is not an insect, plant, bird, fish, or person:
▪ furry little animals
wild/domestic/farm animals
▪ cattle, sheep, and other domestic animals
▪ The cosmetics have not been tested on animals.
▪ Beth is an animal lover (=someone who likes animals).
2. any living creature that is not a plant or a person:
▪ He can’t stand cruelty to animals of any sort.
▪ the animal welfare movement in Britain
▪ the enormous diversity of the animal kingdom
3. any living creature, including people:
▪ Man is a highly intelligent animal.
4. informal someone who behaves in a cruel, violent, or very rude way:
▪ Football hooligans are just animals.
5. a (very/completely/entirely) different animal
informal something that is very different from the thing you have mentioned:
▪ Writing email is a very different animal from all other forms of writing.
6. a political/social etc animal
informal someone who is interested in politics, in meeting other people etc:
▪ He is simply not a social animal.
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THESAURUS
▪animal a living thing such as a dog, cow, or tiger, but not an insect, fish, or bird :
▪ farm animals such as cows, sheep, and pigs
▪ People are becoming more concerned about animal welfare.
▪creature /ˈkriːtʃə $ -ər/ an animal – used especially when describing a particular animal’s characteristics or when referring to animals generally :
▪ The cheetah is a magnificent creature.
▪ all the living creatures in the sea
▪beast an animal, especially a large or dangerous one :
▪ To most people, lions are savage beasts.
▪ a wild beast
▪living thing an animal considered as one of a group of things that grow and then die, including humans and plants :
▪ The only living things we saw were dogs and cats.
▪species /ˈspiːʃiːz/ a group of animals whose members are similar and can breed together to produce young animals :
▪ Seven species of birds of prey have been observed.
▪mammal an animal that drinks milk from its mother’s body when it is young :
▪ Humans, dogs, and whales are all mammals.
▪vertebrate a living creature that has a backbone :
▪ viruses that affect chickens, monkeys, and most other vertebrates
▪invertebrate a living creature that does not have a backbone :
▪ earthworms and other small invertebrates
II. animal2 adjective
1. animal urges/instincts etc
human feelings, desires etc that are connected with sex, food, and other basic needs
2. animal products/fats/protein etc
things that are made or come from animals:
▪ a diet rich in red meat and animal fats
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