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noun

an animal, especially a nonhuman: the creatures of the woods and fields; a creature from outer space.

anything created, whether animate or inanimate.

person; human being: She is a charming creature. The driver of a bus is sometimes an irritable creature.

an animate being.

a person whose position or fortune is owed to someone or something and who continues under the control or influence of that person or thing: The cardinal was a creature of Louis XI.

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Scot. and Older U.S. Use. intoxicating liquor, especially whiskey (usually preceded by the): He drinks a bit of the creature before bedtime.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English creature < Late Latin creātūra act of creating. See create, -ure

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It's certainly not a kind or sweet thing to do to a creature.

The creature it belonged to ploughed against the current for a while, and then disappeared.

It's blue, comes from a creature more ancient than dinosaurs, and saves countless human lives.

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It's certainly not a kind or sweet thing to do to a creature.

The creature it belonged to ploughed against the current for a while, and then disappeared.

It's blue, comes from a creature more ancient than dinosaurs, and saves countless human lives.

Looks cool and creepy but how is it a zombie creature thingamobob.

After its wings harden, over the course of several hours to several days, the creature will become a remarkable aerialist.

The cute little creature requires a lot of ingenuity to foil because he is persistent, intelligent, and skillful.

Oklahoma paleontologists discover what may have been the largest creature ever to walk the earth.

We're sedentary people devoted to our creature comforts.

But this fashionable creature is a little more down-to-earth than the darlings of the catwalk.

Tell students that you will provide clues about a specific feature or creature that can be found on public lands.

And an active warm-blooded creature can exceed it's predicted metabolic rate by as much as a factor of ten.

Given its size, the creature should be hard to miss.

Death of a small creature that you've grown close to never gets easier.

But the key to any truly superlative creature design is to surprise us and make us marvel at a new vision made real.

Proust knew that memory is a skittish creature that peeks from its hole only when it isn't being sought.

And while no living creature has ever cheated death, there is a tiny jellyfish that comes close.

It is not a mythical creature or someones nightmares coming to life.

Each new birth for this extremely rare creature means another small step away from extinction.

So that creature would survive long enough to have babies.

We can't imagine any creature more intimating than the beast in this video….

Unable to scramble out, the creature thrashes around, seemingly drowning.

Her find is met with much skepticism, as no one believes a creature with such a long neck could actually have existed.

Always rare, the flytrap is now in danger of becoming the mythical creature it sounds as if it should be.

When her craft would bump a creature, the creature would light up.

Oh, right: those more concerned with creature comforts and spending fee money on the wrong things.

The creature is believed to be the extinct aquatic ancestor of scorpions and possibly of all arachnids.

Biscardi said this is likely from a stomach sample and that the creature might have eaten an opossum.

Every market research firm worth its salt has spent some time studying this peculiar creature known as the iPhone user.

The family of the archeologist was his team, and his granddaughter had found the creature and was feeding it with a baby bottle.

According to legend, the salamander was a creature which thrived in fire, but died when exposed to air.

Human intelligence is unmatched by that of any other creature.

Dart was sure he had found a creature which closed the gap between apes and the first humans.

The sandcastle worm, as the creature is known, lives in a mineral shell.

It afflicts every creature on this planet, and everyone dreams of an antidote.

The roof is made of a thin membrane that can be pushed down onto the creature.

Leu and his fellow researchers to see if students would be misled into believing in this mythical creature.

The creature can vary the contrast of the lenses by controlling this fluid.

By fiddling with the genetic toggles of birds, scientists might be able to reverse-engineer a dinosaurian creature.

It would be great if all interested in getting into tortoises or any living creature really would put this much thought into.

I'll draw a big spider on the board and ask if anyone knows the scientific name for such a creature.

It is, after all, a creature that devotes much of its energy to rolling excrement into.

Down in the ocean's depths, nearly every creature turns into a living glowstick, by converting chemical energy into light.

Yoga maintains that the sloth bear is a shy creature.

But introducing one creature to control another can also backfire.

Not only does the creature lack eyesight, but it also spends the majority of its life.

And hardly a creature is stirring who isn't clutching that bright icon of the holiday season, the shopping bag.

And its babies would either have better adaptability than that creature or worse adaptability.

As for appointments committees: remember the definition of a committee as a creature with six or more pairs of legs and no brain.

The sail-backed creature is a staple of museum displays, boxes of sugar-saurus cookies, and sets.

Pesticides can't stop the world's strongest, and arguably strangest looking, creature from devastating crops.

The way the water is laying and the content/peaceful look of this creature is amazing.

But the hunks do have a phosphate-rich composition that hints the fecal matter came from a creature that had fed on bony.

Chinese are trading creature comforts for more jobs.

The researchers decided that the creature was sufficiently different from known primates to warrant a new genus.

The creature rapidly fluttered its wings in a desperate attempt to arrest the fall, much as a fledgling bird would.

The bird is not another creature struggling to exist in a snowfield but an opportunistic mugger from the polar wastes.

That, is probably why that kind of creature is sanctified and secures high-profile in this uncaring regime.

Life is going to present special challenges to any creature named for a deadly sin.

The people came up with a plan to scare the dragon away with an even fiercer creature and thus the lion dance was born.

The determined creature inside pecks its way out of the.

They want to work in the coastal metropolitan regions where they can find the creature comforts they enjoy.

But a curious creature would soon reinsert some uncertainty.

It's hard to blame people for wanting to kill a predatory creature that goes after your livestock or your pets.

Though it seems logical that a creature with more grey and.

Bacteria has an ability to adapt better than any other creature on this earth, but it has never evolved.

It doesn't look lame at all, the creature in the image is clearly ambulatory.

Fishermen slice the fin off the shark and toss the creature back.

But once a creature is multicellular, things are more complex.

Each biological creature does indeed have a preprogrammed life span that better health can help attain.

Aps in comparsion are lmited in the scope of the intelegence and abilties but they are a simplied creature that is much like.

It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce.

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Collins

World English Dictionary

creature (ˈkriːtʃə)

—n
1.	a living being, esp an animal
2.	something that has been created, whether animate or inanimate: a creature of the imagination
3.	a human being; person: used as a term of scorn, pity, or endearment
4.	a person who is dependent upon another; tool or puppet

[C13: from Church Latin crēatūra, from Latin crēare to create]

'creatural

—*adj*

'creaturely

—*adj*

'creatureliness

—n

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Word Origin & History

creature

late 13c., "anything created," also "living being," from L. creatura "thing created," from pp. stem of creare "create." Meaning "anything that ministers to man's comforts" (1610s), after I Tim. iv 4, led to jocular use for "whisky" (1630s).

Easton

Bible Dictionary

Creature definition

denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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