living thing

collocation in English

meaningsoflivingandthing

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living
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ/us
/ˈlɪv.ɪŋ/
alive ...
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thing
noun
uk
/θɪŋ/us
/θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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(Definition oflivingandthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofliving thing

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The nature of anylivingthingis its soul.
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Nolivingthingbut man can do it !
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Participants judged whether a word referred to alivingthing(an ' 'animate' ' entity) or to non-livingthing(an ' 'inanimate' ' entity).
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Within neophtonic cosmologies, song and the spirit had a special magnetic affinity for one another, turning song almost into alivingthing.
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The street is alivingthing.
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Rather, metabolism - in the minimal sense of the term - denotes energy dependency, as a condition for the existence and persistence of thelivingthing.
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Thus, disease becomes a maladjustment-the maladjustment of alivingthingto the environment in which it dwells.
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But the nature of the material stuff is philosophically irrelevant to the status of the physical system as alivingthing.
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The soul is the essence of alivingthing; an expression of the organic material that defines an individual organism.
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The survival of each type oflivingthingwill differ in character from the survival of each other type oflivingthing.
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Industry is alivingthing, constantly changing and, in a dynamic society, constantly growing.
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It would not be thelivingthingit is if it were not constantly changing.
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If music is not alivingthing, it is merely a part of the heritage industry.
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The result will be to destroy not only mankind but ultimately everylivingthingon earth.
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It has been in existence for 400 years, and it is alivingthing.
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Is not that alivingthingwhich is implanted?
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At the end of three months you could not see alivingthingthere at all.
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I know full well that this feeling in the valleys is alivingthing.
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A university course, to be any good at all, has to be alivingthing.
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