How To Use Inanimate In A Sentence
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The word ‘article’ means something inanimate which is not and never has been alive.
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Remember, your PJs can be a fomite an inanimate object that will transmit disease.
Margie Goldsmith: When Traveling, B Is for "Bedbug," not "Baggage"
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It's still very much inanimate objects and a television screen and jolly old books and things like that.
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Shooting far, really far, in the mountains at inanimate targets with safe backstops is challenging and downright fascinating, even to the most practiced rifleman.
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It's strange how inanimate objects can resonate with different emotions depending on the situation in which they are viewed.
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For his opening move — in which "Oh" would have been a feasible if less canonic alternative (fully licensed by the dictionary) — is a line that negotiates in process between the vocal base line of expressive oralilty, on the near hand, and, at expression's farthest reach, the vocative asymptote of natural communion with inanimate energy.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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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.
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God, that raised inanimated dust and clay into a living creature by
Leviathan
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This is clear evidence that viruses are unlike any known living thing and are much more like inanimate than animate matter.
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It's weird how attached you can get to an inanimate collection of metal and plastic, isn't it?
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He loved everything there, animated or inanimated; the very mud of the riverside; the very alligators, enormous and stolid, basking on it with impertinent unconcern.
An Outcast Of The Islands
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Lirael thought she could possibly do better herself, though she wasn't particularly adept at working magic on inanimate objects.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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the inorganic world is inanimate
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For, instance, inanimate objects are typically easier to identify than animate objects.
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A bacteriostat is a substance that inhibits the growth of bacteria in inanimate environments, preventing, say, rotting or odor of textiles or deterioration of paint.
HOME COMFORTS
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If love, an enduring human ideal, formed the subject of this show, this ideal was counterbalanced by the weight of inanimate things: stones, earth.
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And third, does not anthropomorphism require the transposition of human qualities onto an inanimate object?
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A rock is an inanimate object.
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All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks.
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Objects started morphing into other objects, inanimate ornaments and utensils came to life, and an out-of-body experience turned into a going-out-of-my-mind fuckup.
Fallin’ Up
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Inanimate things, as a church, a hospital, a bridge, may be personated by a rector, master, or overseer.
Leviathan
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Black was standing holding the inanimated body of the sentry in his arms.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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Singular they is of great help as a means of avoiding gender assignment when translating into English from many languages where not only inanimate nouns are gender sensitive, but all agreeing antecedents, verbs (past tense in Slavic languages), adjectives and participles also take syntactic forms of the corresponding gender.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
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Despite this similarity, there are still elemental differences between being alive and deceased, and between the animate and inanimate.
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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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A stone is an inanimate object.
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the word `car' is inanimate
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So it is, too, with inanimate things; for of these, too, some are really silver and others gold, while others are not and merely seem to be such to our sense; e.g. things made of litharge and tin seem to be of silver, while those made of yellow metal look golden.
On Sophistical Refutations
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Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri.
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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.
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In fact I have heard that good chess masters now study computer games and learn new strategies from those inanimate models.
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[3] The term motive is applicable in all cases where the regular operations of inanimate matter are superseded by the interference of intelligence.
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
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The Tibetan medicine system believes that all phenomena (both animate and inanimate) are comprised of five fundamental elements.
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When spirits inhabit inanimate objects, they cease being inanimate.
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For, instance, inanimate objects are typically easier to identify than animate objects.
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It may have something to do with animacy whereby an inanimate noun (which hil is proven to be in Etruscan due to plural hilχva attested in the Liber Linteus) probably cannot be treated as the subject of a transitive verb and therefore is dethroned to a position after the verb to specify mere agent of the action instead (like a kind of 'afterthought', let's say) while still treated as an unmarked nominative noun.
Archive 2008-04-01
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RegRead, Animate, HKCU, Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics, MinAnimate outputdebug animate is currently set to % animate%
AutoHotkey Community
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Hallucinatory content can include inanimate objects, people, animals, plants and bunches of flowers, trees, and complete scenes.
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The animate and the inanimate, human and objects and finally cinema and painting had been exquisitely juxtaposed for superb equivocal effect.
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More appropriately, in animism, these objects have never been ‘inanimate’ - they are always already ‘possessed’.
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I figured this could be a quick replacement before I buy another serious pair that follows the "anything under $400 will be an inanimate hideosity" rule.
I'm considering buying a pair of Cabela's Pine Ridge roof prism binoculars.
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Those of you who have visited my photoblog may think that my passion in photography lies in capturing scenery, landscapes and inanimate objects.
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Sometimes a player will drop or throw a couple of errant balls and keep staring at his cesta, uttering unknown phrases at this inanimate object.
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My claim that noun gender lacks a symbolic function (at least with respect to inanimate nouns) should not be taken to imply that noun gender is utterly arbitrary and unmotivated.
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Although the system works decently, it has an annoying tendency to lock onto either an inanimate object or another enemy all on its own.
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The viruses associated with the cold and flu can survive on inanimate objects and skin for up to three hours.
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What makes this almost parodic is the self-conscious whimsy that conjoins animate and inanimate in a gesture of closeness conventionally reserved for animate beings alone, an archness that often cloys in Hunt but that points to a more serious scrambling of subjects and objects in bibliophilic writing generally, where books repeatedly turn into quasi-subjects and persons into quasi-objects.
Bibliographic Romance: Bibliophilia and the Book Object
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At this age, children are still unable to distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.
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Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri.
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The evening really belongs, however, to the unseen Kieve who can make inanimate objects skim through the air, and who finally has Gary Wilmot as a choric tramp locked in a trunk only to reappear seconds later at the back of the stalls.
The Invisible Man – review
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Maisie's ‘wondering’ consciousness becomes the medium of a perverse animation, an uncanny crossover or transmutation between animate and inanimate, person and thing.
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The word denotes two phenomena: first, something visible to the eye that is fixed and does not move, which is implied by the root geezh, and the inflection ik, which seems applicable to all inanimate substances, to denote the fact of their substantivity.
Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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Museums, too, have been transformed from hushed halls of inanimate objects and glass cases into spaces where unexpected things happen.
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Wind chill does not affect inanimate objects, nor does it affect people who are sheltered from the wind.
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Trees, plants, flowers and all the vegetable world fall under his particular observation: nor is inanimated nature his only study.
Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776
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And still the numbers and names of the dead ‘hammer through his mind, inanimate as nails’.
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De Man called this biographical trope personification, prosopopoeia, literally "giving face" to an inanimate collection of words, transforming them into the features of a human life.
The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur
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He is isolated from human contact and immersed in the inanimate scene.
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In comparison, implanted biomaterials, prosthetics, and devices have inanimate surfaces.
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Also, for Aristotle, movement in a broad sense, which he termed kinesis, separated the animate from the inanimate, and without kinesis there would be no soul, and thus no kind of consciousness or intuition.
SPACE
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Genes are not conscious and do not choose to cooperate; they are inanimate molecules switched on and off by chemical messages.
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He thought of the baby almost as an inanimate object.
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My spidey senses are telling me something disturbing though, that a noun that ends in a patientive suffix -aχ used to make derivative nouns from verbs, that uses an l-genitive normally given to feminines & neuters, and that is attested in the inessive three times screams like an inanimate object more than the term for a person.
Archive 2007-12-01
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While secondary stress would have once donned most instances of the agglutinated deictics *-sa and *-ta in MIE, it wouldn't have naturally done so in unstressed MIE *kʷai-ta *kʷittᵊ PIE *kʷid "what?" yet the inanimate pronominal marker shows voicing nonetheless.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Of a carpet or any inanimate subject we should say, "It lies on the floor," "A knife _lies_ on the table," not _lays_.
How to Speak and Write Correctly
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Voice is abusively attributed to irrational and inanimate beings; thus we improperly call the neighing of horses or any other sound by the name of voice.
Essays and Miscellanies
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Rather than receding, the hunger to recall what's passed imbues meaning in everything, animating the inanimate, impregnating empty space, and bending time.
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It is not an inanimate thing, like a house, to be pulled down or enlarged or structurally altered at the caprice of the tenant or owner; it is a living thing.
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There may also be inappropriate use of toys, obsessive spinning of objects or attachment to inanimate objects.
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Every death is ugly and undignified, as life is wrenched away, leaving an inanimate, waxen corpse.
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Between a stone, which is part of the body of the earth, and a leaf which is part of the body of a plant, and a lock of hair which is part of the body of a man, there may be certain unimportant chemical differences, justifying us in using the terms animate and inanimate.
The Complex Vision
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Triggered by an inanimated object's breakdown my computer crashed and lost a lot of important financials as it was in the midst of a long, complicated process by one of the programs, my outrage has turned to other events over the last few weeks.
One hand waving...
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Singular they is of great help as a means of avoiding gender assignment when translating into English from many languages where not only inanimate nouns are gender sensitive, but all agreeing antecedents, verbs (past tense in Slavic languages), adjectives and participles also take syntactic forms of the corresponding gender.
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar
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My understanding is that animism does not start from the premise that objects are inanimate.
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The overtly sexual nature of the body compels the viewer into the position of voyeur, only to reveal itself as an inanimate object.
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He looks at me as if I'm an inanimate object.
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It is one thing to be able to connect on an inanimate target at a known distance from a solid target shooting position.
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All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks.
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Its good, its proactive and there's no time to sink into the mire of self doubt and hopelessness if you are expending energy (preferably on inanimate objects).
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My attentive readers may have noticed that I've already asserted several times on this blog that -va a plural inanimate ending is an allomorph of -χva.
Archive 2008-05-01
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The faceless, inanimate riot police are far more imposing and formidable than the passionate workers.
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The whole Universe animate and inanimate, past, present and future is within me.
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In those desert regions, where man is constantly in strife with animated or inanimated nature, they daily speak of similar or corresponding means by which it is possible to escape from a tiger, a great boa, or a crocodile.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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Explaining the logic of numerology, he says, everybody and everything, animate or inanimate, has vibrations.
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First, it's a document, a mighty one, but still an inanimate object.
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an inanimate body
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He changed himself into the form of an old woman, and, inquiring the cause of Baldur's invulnerability, was told by Frigga that all things, animate and inanimate, had sworn not to harm him, with the exception of one little shrub, the misletoe.
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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It is this quality that makes Griffiths' poetry good - that touching distance between the animate and the inanimate, life and words, that can be breached by poetry.
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They assume the form of inanimate objects such as bird droppings, tree bark and leaves to protect themselves.
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Another part of it is that consciousness CREATES space-time and from that creation comes particularity and from that ability of particularity to exist gradually emerge both inanimate and inanimate life forms all of which dwell within the larger context of the space-time continuum which itself is a veritable ocean, if you will, of 'consciousness' in which the whole kit and caboodle continuously swims.
Another Look
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The viruses that cause herpes and pink eye thrive on moist, inanimate objects - making a pot of lip gloss, foundation, or eye shadow a perfect breeding ground.
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One of the other themes that run through your work is anthropomorphic or inanimate objects that come to life in some way.
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We are faced with a "universe," then, made up entirely of living souls, manifested in so-called animate, or so-called inanimate bodies.
The Complex Vision
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By this solution, I'm also suggesting that the case system was governed by an underlying animacy hierarchy1 of definite animate indefinite animate inanimate.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Carinthia, suddenly wedded, passionately grateful for humbleness exalted, virginly sensible of treasures of love to give, resembled the inanimate and most inspiring, was mindless and inexpressive, past memory, beyond the hopes, a thing of the thrilled blood and skylark air, since she laid her hand in this young man's.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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Among the Allophylian nations, on the other hand a rude and sensual superstition prevailed, which ascribed life and mysterious powers to the inanimate objects.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844
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A successful actor-network brings together animate and inanimate objects and resources into a complex, everchanging resilient heterogeneous network.
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It may be inanimate and made from pine, but it has shared so many good times with me.
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But the single biggest cause of snowmobiling casualties are inanimate objects.
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In comparison, implanted biomaterials, prosthetics, and devices have inanimate surfaces.
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The forward cylinder was depending on that unknown force men call the pertinacity of materials, which now and then balances that other heartbreaking power, the perversity of inanimate things.
The Day's Work - Volume 1
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Shooting far, really far, in the mountains at inanimate targets with safe backstops is challenging and downright fascinating, even to the most practiced rifleman.
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The society of the _sexes_, which answers the purpose of propagation; and next, that more _general society_, which we have with men and with other animals, and which we may in some sort be said to have even with the inanimate world.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
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Dr. SPELLBERG: You know, all of these organisms can be spread by contact directly with a source patient who's carrying them but can also be spread by what are called fomites, which are simply inanimate objects someone touches, leaves a trace of the bacteria on it.
NPR Topics: News
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Remember how Driesch and his supporters fought for recognition that life transcends physics and chemistry, by arguing that the powers of regeneration in the sea urchin embryo were not explicable by a machinelike structure, and how the controversy has continued, along similar lines, between those who insisted that regulative “equipotential” or “organismic” integration was irreducible to any machinelike mechanism and was therefore irreducible also to the laws of inanimate nature.
Polanyi: morphogenetic field
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These sculptures managed to encapsulate a whole range of dualities: culture/nature, male/female, soft/hard, animate/inanimate.
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This and other inanimate thematic stems exhibit interesting effects such as the curious disappearance of *m in the locative case e.g. *yugóm "a yoke" but *yugó-i "among a yoke" which leads many to assume that this was a functional ending rather than the product of misanalysis and missegmentation by early Indo-European speakers.
Inanimate thematics that failed to be converted in Pre-IE?
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They are commonplace, inanimate, drab, rough, omnipresent, thoroughly boring and often a nuisance.
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I still have occasional empathy with inanimate objects.
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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.
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This is a valid point, Karenne, and is supported by proponents of “cognitive grammar” who argue that there are fairly universal ways of thinking about things, e.g. that animate beings can affect inanimate objects, and that grammar is mostly easily learned and applied when it maps on to these cognitive schemata, as in The boy kicked the ball.
E is for Error « An A-Z of ELT
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There were besides mirrors on the other three walls of the room, all hung with such careful intent for the exercise of their vocation that the apartment, in spots, extended indefinitely; the brilliant chandelier was thereby quadrupled, and the furniture and ornaments multiplied everywhere and most unexpectedly into twins and triplets, producing such sociabilities among them, and forcing such correspondences between inanimate objects with such hospitable insistence, that the effect was full of gaiety and life, although the interchange in reality was the mere repetition of one original, a kind of phonographic echo.
Balcony Stories
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The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE.
Archive 2009-11-01
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And, for that part of religion which consisteth in opinions concerning the nature of powers invisible, there is almost nothing that has a name that has not been esteemed amongst the Gentiles, in one place or another, a god or devil, or by their poets feigned to be inanimated, inhabited, or possessed, by some spirit or other.
Chapter XII. Of Religion
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There is a creature found in traditional Jewish folklore called the golem, an animate humanlike being fashioned completely from inanimate material.
Queen's Journal: Latest stories
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For years, labels were dominated by inanimate objects, like chateaus in France, and gobs of text.
Look-Alike Wines Featuring Look-Alike Marsupials Duke It Out
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One important distinction within the natural world is found in the fact that some natural substances are alive and others inanimate.
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Yet he could not command his memories that came crowding round him in that evil-smelling hut, while Babalatchi talked on in a flowing monotone, nothing of him moving but the lips, in the artificially inanimated face.
An Outcast Of The Islands
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Once in a while, later in the evening, when alcohol seems to have worked some reanimation charm, some of the zombies will start to emulate human beings, leaving only the most inanimate standing vacantly in front of the band.
Modern Bands and Zombies « Colleen Anderson
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Its two main ver - sions will be further defined as abiogenesis, or the production of living things from nonorganic matter, and heterogenesis, or the rise of living things from organic matter, both animate and inanimate, without genetic resemblance or continuity.
SPONTANEOUS GENERATION
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They had been "fluked" by the bull-whale, whose fan-shaped tail-fins, striking the boat in an upward direction, had shattered it as easily as an eggshell, tossing the fragments, along with the contents, both animate and inanimate, several feet into the air.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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Gerald stared at it as if it was something inanimate, unconnected with him.
THE WHITE DOVE
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The truth of the matter is that we are very fragile, transient creatures, totally dependent on the complexity of those around us, human and non-human, animate and inanimate.
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A child uses many things when externalizing - both animate and inanimate objects are innocently used to promote and protect individual core identity.
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If you played D&D or are Jewish, you know that a golem is a living creature animated out of inanimate material, in this case clay.
Archive 2005-12-01
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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.
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Frankly, I never used to feel guilty about disappointing inanimate objects.
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How it ever kept going now was a miracle, and for the last three months it had been stuck, inanimate and unmoving, in the student car lot.
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Divested of their humanity, these nameless men, women and children were recorded in their master's ledgers as mere property, and accorded a dollar value on a par with inanimate objects such as plows and hammers.
Corpses in the Garden
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The source of the comma, is the difference between a human singing voice, and an inanimate object: a monochord.
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A stone is an inanimate object.
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Noosphere (source: wiki): In the original theory of Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a succession of phases of development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life).
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: Noosphere of Naiveté
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But equally essential to making sense of the chaos of the world and our place in it, is our ability to distinguish between objects and different kinds of things, so living or dead, animate or inanimate.
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Cricket world's first digital trophy up for grabs during Lanka tri-series COLOMBO - The trophy to be given to the winner of the tri-Series between Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand in Colombo is no longer just an inanimate object that will gather dust in a cricket boardroom cabinet.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
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And yet an inanimate universe brought forth life and all its variety, because that was a necessary step in the evolution from a great cloud of gas to the final clinkered vacuum.
The Long Way Home
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I am late coming to this understanding of the creative power of art to touch us in unexpected ways but so grateful to finally feel the beat of animate life in the inanimate object.
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A necropsy is the term for a post-mortem examination performed on an animal or inanimate object.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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-- Animism may have arisen out of or simultaneously with animatism as a primitive explanation of many different phenomena; if animatism was originally applied to non-human or inanimate objects, animism may from the outset have been in vogue as a theory of the nature of man.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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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.
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Likely it'll turn out a waste of time, and I just want you close so I don't waste my energy kicking summat inanimate.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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For, instance, inanimate objects are typically easier to identify than animate objects.
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In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background.
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Likely it'll turn out a waste of time, and I just want you close so I don't waste my energy kicking summat inanimate.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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‘I do seem to have a real sense for the animate implications of inanimate objects,’ says Gurganus when confronted with this kinky moment.
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Schopenhauer believes that the various species of animate and inanimate things in the world are eternal and static.
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-- To what cause are we to impute this frigid silence -- this torpid indifference -- this cold inanimated conduct of the otherwise warm and generous Americans?
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
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So I shall set out on another long drive today, and while I drive I shall ponder the general unhelpfulness of inanimate things.
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Zen also builds, however, on the East Asian, especially the Taoist, naturalist view that ultimate reality is manifested in each and every concrete phenomenon, including animate and inanimate beings.
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It's always fascinating to return to something that everyone claims to cherish and feigns familiarity with, but that is simultaneously so apotheosized and abstracted as to become cold and inanimate.
Adam Hanft: A Geek's Fourth of July: Reading the Declaration of Independence
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Whereas human personality is present in bodies, divine personality is present in what is inanimate also.
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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 is the extreme mobility of which man is capable, owing to his peculiar organization, that distinguishes him from other beings that are called insensible or inanimate; the different degrees of this mobility, of which the individuals of his species are susceptible, discriminate them from each other; make that incredible variety, that infinity of difference which is to be found, as well in their corporeal faculties, as in those which are mental or intellectual.
The System of Nature, Volume 1
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And of course we become attached more easily to self moving things and creatures it's a pity the term automobile is taken in a way that is less common with plants and inanimate objects.
HCI and Human Robot Interaction
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Leopold is an eminent plant physiologist who discovered the essential metabolic process that allows seemingly inanimate seeds to quicken and spring to life with revivifying moisture.
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MY beloved daughter imposes on me a task, which however agreeable to myself, may not, perhaps be entirely so to you; as the cold inanimate prolixity of an old woman, will form a great contrast between her descriptions, and that of so sprightly and elegant a penwoman as Mrs. Butler: you must however, accept of my wish to indulge her, and gratify you; and take matter for manner.
Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale
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Indeed, for de Man, language actively participated in undoing its own figures of personification, disfiguring the human face by transforming it into an inanimate statue or by reducing it to the lines from an epitaph.
The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur
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Singh manifests myriad hues creating a symbiosis between animate and inanimate objects.
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Around her, the huge house remained silent, inanimate yet with a presence of its own.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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I accept that a golf ball is inanimate.
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Gradually as the intellectual sight became overclouded, these gay visions became obscure, like the dying hues of sunset, until they were at last lost in total oblivion; and Sir Kenneth lay extended at the feet of El Hakim, to all appearance, but for his deep respiration, as inanimate a corpse as if life had actually departed.
The Talisman
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Sometimes there are notices warning of inanimate dangers such as the invariably poorly-designed curves, sharp-edged shoulders that drop off into nothingness or shoulders that don't exist at all, perilous intersections, and traffic lanes that turn from two into one or from one into none, snail-paced farm implements and, inevitably, roads under repair.
Free riding the roads of Mexico
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It groaned and stretched as if just being awakened, then slowly took a step out of the once again inanimate pile to peer through the cracks in the boarded window.
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Some of these souls possess what we name animate bodies, others possess what we name inanimate bodies.
The Complex Vision
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The word denotes two phenomena: first, something visible to the eye that is fixed and does not move, which is implied by the root _geezh_, and the inflection _ik_, which seems applicable to all inanimate substances, to denote the fact of their substantivity.
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
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For a non-sentient inanimate object, the companion cube soon becomes a trusted ally in the game and the puzzle which requires you to 'euthanise' one of them is strangely disturbing.
Archive 2007-12-01
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It has a reverence for nature, a belief that life energy exists in all things, both animate and inanimate.
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His limbs were inanimate, leaving motion only to his prickly black hair dancing to the silent hum of the ocean.
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In any case, the covers themselves are pretty enough, and in a nice, sparkly yarn might even add a tantalizing “you can glimpse the zill, but you cannot touch it” piquance to the zill-dancing experience, or perhaps that is only for those who identify too closely with inanimate brass objects, not that we know anyone like that around here.
Finger cymbals too loud? problem solved: crocheted zill covers « raincoaster
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Earthy Substance of earthy substance, first of the earthy substance, the entire body of me, N.N. son of N.N., completely formed by an honorable arm and an immortal right hand in the lightless and illuminated world, in the inanimated and the animated.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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As this column has outlined in the past, corporate boardrooms have long been plagued by the problem of dead or otherwise inanimate board members.
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The fall back to the beast and beyond even that-to mere inanimate existence-is complete.
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Lamb recognizes that to talk of inanimate objects as having beliefs and emotions is not far from panpsychism.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I can assume any form you please, animate or inanimate.
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In both photographs the inanimate face is shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a blank background.
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The unfortunate problem with Etruscan, Lemnian and Rhaetic (and probably too with Eteo-Cypriot and Eteo-Cretan) is that no personal endings appear to be attached to verbs in these languages despite the fact that many features like the 1ps and its oblique form (mi and mini), demonstratives and the declensional system (ie. the demonstrative accusative, s-genitive, animate and inanimate plural endings) all find direct connections to PIE.
A modification of Indo-Aegean, plus some new grammatical ideas on Minoan
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Natural love or hatred, is that sympathy or antipathy which is to be seen in animate and inanimate creatures, in the four elements, metals, stones, gravia tendunt deorsum, as a stone to his centre, fire upward, and rivers to the sea.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The flayed skin in The Last Judgment has the status of a mask; an entire body, putatively that of the author, has been turned into a larva, an empty and inanimate persona void of inspiriting energy.
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Wallace in the "Westminster Review," July, 1867, page 37, on the protection to the female insect afforded by its resemblance either to an inanimate object or to another insect protected by its unpalatableness.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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inanimate objects
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Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord.
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We know that the embryo is alive, not dead or inanimate.
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Bacterial attachment to inanimate surfaces generally requires that a surface be conditioned by organic deposits, such as collagen, laminin, fibrin, and fibrinogen.
