What's the difference between inanimate and unanimate?
Inanimate
Definition:
(v. t.) To animate.
(a.) Not animate; destitute of life or spirit; lifeless; dead; inactive; dull; as, stones and earth are inanimate substances.
Example Sentences:
(1) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
(2) The rats also had the opportunity to make noncontingent target biting responses on an inanimate target.
(3) The subjects' fears reflected the trauma, they feared inanimate objects, and there were hardly any paranoid ideations.
(4) In standardized tests of huddling behavior, 5-, 10-, 15-, and 20-day-old rat pups spent substantial and equivalent amounts of time with an immobile rat or a heated, fur-covered tube, which suggests that the conspecific and inanimate stimuli were equally attractive to the pups.
(5) The animals learned to discriminate between pictures of faces or inanimate objects, to select the odd face from a group, to inspect a face then select the matching face from a pair of faces after a variable delay, to discriminate between novel and familiar faces, and to identify specific faces.
(6) They are even absorbed by inanimate elements, or by ordinary objects of everyday life.
(7) The chloramphenicol-treated cells, as well as cells of a transposon-generated mutant strain deficient in peripheral EPS formation, remained adhesive to a hydrophobic inanimate surface during the initial 5 h of starvation, whereas nontreated wild-type cells had progressively decreased adhesion capacity.
(8) The use of this technique results in high titers of virus on cover slips, which are inanimate objects requiring minimal manipulation.
(9) Results for inanimate objects agree within 1 percent with comparable measurements by water displacement.
(10) It is highly unlikely that the essence of the process lies in its computational logic and hence it can never be produced by inanimate machines.
(11) The ventilation system, air conditioning plant, air and inanimate sources in the operating theatre were investigated.
(12) The ecosystem encloses all living organisms as well as the inanimate environment (e.g.
(13) Germans are applauded in the language we use to describe well-functioning inanimate objects, such as Mercedes cars, or Miele dishwashers.
(14) In inanimate sources, P4 was predominant in water and sewage effluent.
(15) The usefulness of S. marcescens biotyping was shown by relating several isolates recovered from patients and their inanimate environment and by pointing out the possible existence of infections or colonizations by two unrelated biotypes.
(16) I’ve always been fascinated by how these inanimate objects harness this explosion.
(17) Visual fixation time was compared for events in which an inanimate object moved independently and events in which a human being was the agent.
(18) Texts were carried out on strains derived from the respiratory tract, strains from infection at other sites, and strains from the inanimate hospital environment which were believed not to have been responsible for infection ('environmental' strains).
(19) Infant observation indicated that there is an individual variation in development characterized by orientedness either toward the animate or toward the inanimate world.
(20) Similar to the modern sculptor of inanimate art forms, plastic surgeons have utilized new materials and devised new techniques to achieve aesthetic improvement of the face, trunk, and extremities.
Unanimate
Definition:
(a.) Unanimous.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was with unanimous consent.” He denied that Trump’s tweets had played a part, saying: “No, no, no.
(2) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(3) Sir James Crosby, the ITV senior independent non-executive director, explained why the board had opted to retain Grade's services for an extra year: "It was the unanimous view of ITV's independent non-executive directors that it would be in the best interests of the company and its shareholders to ask Michael to extend his time as executive chairman.
(4) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(5) There is a lack of unanimity regarding the definition, limits, and goals of oral history.
(6) Nobody was surprised when the house agreed unanimously, or at least nem con, to get the whole matter investigated by Mr Bryant's committee.
(7) Iran has vowed to retaliate against the ISA extension, passed unanimously on Thursday, saying it violated last year’s agreement with six major powers to curb its nuclear programme in return for lifting of international financial sanctions.
(8) While the protesters' demands are varied, their unanimous target is Beijing – its creeping influence over the city's boardrooms, newspapers, classrooms and courts.
(9) Advising renegotiation was "a bold recommendation" but showed the depth of backbench feeling on the issue, he added: "This is a joint committee of the Lords and the Commons, with a coalition government majority, and it's a unanimous report."
(10) In New York, the UN security council unanimously called for a ceasefire, while Britain's foreign minister, William Hague, said he would be discussing ceasefire efforts with his American, French and German counterparts on Sunday.
(11) There seems to be unanimous political support,” said Jimmy Morales, Miami Beach city manager.
(12) The main problems are the lack of a uniform terminology and the fact that there is little unanimity concerning definitions and what may be included under individual syndromic rubrics.
(13) Five FTC commissioners voted unanimously to close the case on whether Google used unfair practices in search results, but voted four to one in favor of a settlement after finding that the company used unfair practices in its mobile business.
(14) On the basis of these findings the authors support the function-protective operative treatment of single toxic adenomas, although the causal relationship between isotope treatment and consecutive carcinoma can not be verified unanimously.
(15) Sir Michael Rake, the chairman of easyJet, said: "Following a thorough process involving a number of high calibre candidates we have unanimously chosen a strong chief executive with the strategic ability, operational capability and passion to drive easyJet through the next stage of its development and we look forward to working with Carolyn."
(16) The 178 Republicans unanimously opposed the bill, as did some Democrats.
(17) Panel members were in agreement 98% of the time, unanimously assigning full responsibility in 61% of the cases and no responsibility in 31% of the cases.
(18) The jury decided unanimously Thursday that the Colorado attack was cruel enough to justify the death penalty .
(19) "I expect, actually, it will be a resolution that we're able to reach unanimity on, given the import of the issue … the negotiations are going on, but I think they're going comparatively well."
(20) Last month the House of Commons voted unanimously to strip Green of his knighthood , which was awarded a decade ago for services to retail.