non-living thing

collocation in English

meaningsofthing

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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 ofthingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Participants judged whether a word referred to a living thing (an ' 'animate' ' entity) or tonon-livingthing(an ' 'inanimate' ' entity).
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The line can phase through anynon-livingthing, and sense living things in the immediate vicinity.
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Lesions affecting the sensory units lead to marked impairments in identifying living things; lesions affecting the functional units affected non-living things more than living things.
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Before 1828 scientists thought there was material distinction, that the constituents of life could be distinguished from those of non-living things.
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The contingent existence of living and non-living things can be thought of in terms of dispositions and conditionals.
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Some of the most common category-specific agnosias involve recognition impairments for living things, but not non-living things, or human faces, as in prosopagnosia.
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For example, deficits in recognizing stimuli can be as specific as familiar human faces or as diffuse as living things or non-living things.
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The king agreed, and told him that he may bring with him three non-living things into the castle.
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Kaitlin develops a hugging machine after researching how autistic people enjoy the sensation of pressure from non-living things on their skin.
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Human beings function as subject in or to all aspects, animals as subject up to the sensitive aspect, plants up to the biotic, and non-living things up to the physical.
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