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creature 音标拼音: [kr'itʃɚ] n. 人,动物,创造物,生物 人,动物,创造物,生物 creature n 1: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [ synonym: { animal}, { animate being}, { beast}, { brute}, { creature}, { fauna}] 2: a human being; ` wight' is an archaic term [ synonym: { creature}, { wight}] 3: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [ synonym: { creature}, { tool}, { puppet}] Creature \ Crea" ture\ ( kr[= e]" t[= u] r; 135), n. [ F. cr[' e] ature, L. creatura. See { Create}.] 1. Anything created; anything not self- existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. [ 1913 Webster] He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] God' s first creature was light. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature. [ 1913 Webster] The world hath not a sweeter creature. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool. [ 1913 Webster] A creature of the queen' s, Lady Anne Bullen. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc. [ 1913 Webster] { Creature comforts}, those objects, as food, drink, and shelter, which minister to the comfort of the body. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 222 Moby Thesaurus words for " creature": Adamite, Charlie McCarthy, adherent, aerobic organism, agent, an existence, anaerobic organism, ancilla, animal, apple- polisher, appliance, artifact, ass- licker, autotrophic organism, backscratcher, backslapper, beast, being, bodily, body, bootlick, bootlicker, brainchild, brown- nose, brownie, brute, cat, chap, character, child, clawback, cog, coinage, commonality, commonalty, composition, concoction, contrivance, courtier, creation, creature comforts, creeping thing, cringer, critter, crowning achievement, customer, dependent, device, disciple, distillation, duck, dumb animal, dumb friend, dummy, dupe, earthling, effect, end product, entelechy, entity, essence, extract, fawner, fellow, feudatory, figurehead, flatterer, flunky, follower, footlicker, front, front man, fruit, genetic individual, gillie, go- between, goon, groundling, groveler, guy, hand, handiwork, handmaid, handmaiden, handshaker, hanger- on, head, helot, henchman, heterotrophic organism, hoi polloi, homager, homo, human, human being, implement, individual, inferior, instrument, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, invention, issue, jackal, joker, junior, kowtower, lackey, lay figure, led captain, lever, lickspit, lickspittle, liege, liege man, life, lightweight, living being, living soul, living thing, lower class, lower orders, man, manufacture, masses, masterpiece, masterwork, material, mealymouth, mechanism, mediator, medium, microbe, microorganism, midwife, minion, mintage, monad, morphological individual, mortal, mundane, myrmidon, new mintage, nominal head, nose, object, offspring, one, ont, opera, opus, opuscule, organ, organic being, organism, organization, origination, outcome, outgrowth, party, pawn, peon, person, persona, personage, personality, physical, physiological individual, plaything, product, production, puppet, reptile, result, retainer, satellite, second fiddle, secondary, serf, servant, single, slave, somebody, someone, something, soul, spaniel, stooge, subaltern, subordinate, suck, superficial, sycophant, tellurian, terran, thing, third stringer, thug, timeserver, toad, toadeater, toady, tool, toy, truckler, tufthunter, underling, understrapper, unit, varmint, vassal, vehicle, virus, votary, work, worldling, yeoman, yes- man, zooid, zoon |
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