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
Table 3 lists the absolute frequencies of animate versus inanimate subjects in the cor pus.
Broadly considered, selection does occur in the inanimate world, often providing a formative step in the production of order.
As noted before, impersonal passives were less acceptable for inanimate subjects but this difference failed to reach significance (see figure 5).
As animate entities were both more conceptually and lexically accessible retrieval of these entities from memory should be faster than retrieval of the inanimate agent.
Nor, finally, is whose avoided with inanimate antecedents.
The great majority of noun modifiers are again, throughout the various time intervals, inanimate.
Far from being the inanimate stuff typically envisioned by modern thought, materials in this original sense are the active constituents of a world-in-formation.
Participants judged whether a word referred to a living thing (an ' 'animate' ' entity) or to non-living thing (an ' 'inanimate' ' entity).
