0 having none of the characteristics of life that an animal or plant has:
1 possessing none of the characteristics of life that an animal or plant has:
an inanimate object
Collections are 'typically inanimate', they occur 'readily in the plural, but when singular cannot contract plural concord with the verb'.
Similarly, the existence of state class failed to show a significant difference between the two auxiliaries, both in the animate and the inanimate variant.
For the existence of state class, both animate and inanimate subjects were tested.
If the subject refers to an inanimate entity affecting a human direct object, the genitive is obligatory for the direct object.
For inanimate matter, this protoconsciousness is something so simple and primitive that we would hardly recognize it as consciousness at all.
We also noted that o-mano counts as inanimate.
The vehicles represented inanimate objects, possessing wheels and more straight line contours.
Participants judged whether a word referred to a living thing (an ' 'animate' ' entity) or to non-living thing (an ' 'inanimate' ' entity).