What's the difference between animal and animus?

Animal


Definition:

  • (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.
  • (n.) One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
  • (a.) Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
  • (a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
  • (a.) Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
  • (2) This trend appeared to reverse itself in the low dose animals after 3 hr, whereas in the high dose group, cardiac output continued to decline.
  • (3) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (4) The animals were sacrificed every 12 hr from D12.0 through D17.0.
  • (5) Nutritionally rehabilitated animals had similar numbers of nucleoli to control rats.
  • (6) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
  • (7) Spectrophotometric determination of the sulfhydryl content in the animal tissue before (control) and after using 6,6'-Dithiodinicotinic acid is applied.
  • (8) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
  • (9) Increased dietary protein intake led to increased MDA per nephron, increased urinary excretion of MDA, and increased MDA per milligram protein in subtotally nephrectomized animals, and markedly increased the glutathione redox ratio.
  • (10) Measurement of the intraspinal monoamine level revealed a decrease in the intraspinal norepinephrine level in the treated animals.
  • (11) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
  • (12) A group I subset (six animals), for which predominant cultivable microbiota was described, had a mean GI of 2.4.
  • (13) As the percentage of rabbit feed is very small compared to the bulk of animal feeds, there is a fair chance that rabbit feed will be contaminated with constituents (additives) of batches previously prepared for other animals.
  • (14) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
  • (15) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
  • (16) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
  • (17) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
  • (18) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (19) In the present investigation we monitored the incorporation of [14C] from [U-14C]glucose into various rat brain glycolytic intermediates of conscious and pentobarbital-anesthetized animals.
  • (20) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.

Animus


Definition:

  • (n.) Animating spirit; intention; temper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He comes across as remarkably lacking in political bloodlust or even tribal animus.
  • (2) The satirical animus is what vibrates the molecules.
  • (3) The level of animus was the Miliband brothers on speed.
  • (4) But having said that, I have no animus in my heart, I have no hatred, no bitterness in my heart, for people that have a different view.” Rubio tried to make a similar argument by drawing a comparison to how divorce is viewed by the Catholic faith.
  • (5) Whatever the reasons, he has frequently exported personal animus into the foreign arena, too.
  • (6) The report continues: “The racial animus and stereotypes expressed by these supervisors suggest that they are unlikely to hold an officer accountable for discriminatory conduct or take any steps to discourage the development or perpetuation of racial stereotypes among officers.
  • (7) There appears to be a clear animus to the Christian faith and to Judeo-Christian values.
  • (8) Sue The thing is, it was only these two [Mary and Paul] who had that raw sexual animus.
  • (9) In this atmosphere of racial animus and class contempt, political dislocation and electoral opportunism, the space for the arguments we need to have about immigration, democracy and austerity simply did not exist.
  • (10) The sums are so paltry that the animus seems deliberate.
  • (11) But the county is not a destination stop for connoisseurs of political animus.
  • (12) An animus entered the relationship between the former friends and the bitter narrative was maintained until the last race of the season, when Hamilton secured his second world championship in Abu Dhabi.
  • (13) How anyone can read any of these passages and object to claims that Harris' worldview is grounded in deep anti-Muslim animus is staggering.
  • (14) Chinese people's long-standing animus toward their erstwhile colonial overlord is, of course, very real.
  • (15) But Bloom holds a special animus for Fox News and Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox .
  • (16) He continues: “Inside our borders, the nation of e pluribus unum [out of many, one] threatens to be fractured across ethnic lines by racial animus and divisive multiculturalism.
  • (17) That’s not a statement of animus or prejudice against anyone,” he said.
  • (18) It is an act of respect for the will of the American people, a respect that is every American leader’s first responsibility.” The animus between Clinton and Trump was clear throughout the debate – once again, they did not shake hands – and in some of the more heated exchanges , with Clinton accusing Trump of being a “a puppet” of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
  • (19) It seems to me that his animus derives much more from a profound antipathy towards the subject matter of this research than from a concern about the scientific methods used to investigate it.
  • (20) Principle and power struggles aside, there is also personal animus.