1. имя существительное 1) животное; зверь Например: to domesticate an animal — приручать животное to tame / train a wild animal — дрессировать дикое животное to trap an animal — загнать зверя в ловушку to hunt wild animals — охотиться на диких зверей to butcher / slaughter animals (for food) — убивать зверей (для употребления в пищу) to skin an animal — снимать шкуру с животного to stuff an animal — набивать чучело животного to neuter an animal — кастрировать животное carnivorous / flesh-eating animal — плотоядное животное domestic animal — домашнее животное herbivorous animal — травоядное животное predatory animal — хищник wild animal — дикое животное reservoir animal — животное - носитель возбудителя инфекции в природе Синоним(ы): beast 2) [используется в разговорной речи] скотина Синоним(ы): brute 2. прилагательное 1) животный, относящийся к животному миру Синоним(ы): brutish, bestial 2) животноводческий Например: animal breeding — животноводство 3) животный; чувственный, плотский Например: animal bones — костная мука (удобрение) animal spirits — жизнерадостность, бодрость
зоология животное
I. noun Etymology: Latin, from animale, neuter of animalis animate, from anima soul — more at animate 1. any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation 2. a. one of the lower animals as distinguished from human beings b. mammal; broadly vertebrate 3. a human being considered chiefly as physical or nonrational; also this nature 4. a person with a particular interest or aptitude Example: a political animal 5. matter, thing Example: the theater…is an entirely different animal — Arthur Miller; also creature 1c • animallike adjective II. adjective 1. of, relating to, resembling, or derived from animals 2. a. of or relating to the physical or sentient as contrasted with the intellectual or rational b. sensual, fleshly 3. of or relating to the animal pole of an egg or to the part from which ectoderm normally develops Synonyms: see carnal • animally adverb