The meaning of Creature

noun

A living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli.

Usage examples:

Wild animals adapt badly to a caged life

adjective

Relating to or characteristic of animals.

Usage examples:

The evolution of animal life

noun

A living thing that can move and eat and react to the world through its senses, esp. of sight and hearing

Usage examples:

Mammals, insects, reptiles, and birds are all animals., a lion is a wild animal, and a dog is a dom…

noun

An animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one.

Usage examples:

A wild beast

noun

A wild animal

noun

Existence.

Usage examples:

The railway brought many towns into being

verb

Present participle of be.

verb

Exist.

Usage examples:

There are no easy answers

noun

A savagely violent person or animal.

Usage examples:

He was a cold-blooded brute

adjective

Characterized by an absence of reasoning or intelligence.

Usage examples:

A brute struggle for social superiority

noun

A person who is offensive and rude, and often violent

Usage examples:

Historians have portrayed him as a brute who won only because of superior troop strength., they had…

noun

A living creature; an animal.

Usage examples:

Even in my newly adopted home in florida, i am still bewildered to see critters outside animal king…

noun

A creature

Usage examples:

That dog’s a mean old critter.

noun

A person who is given menial tasks to do, especially a junior in an office.

Usage examples:

I got myself a job as typist and general dogsbody on a small magazine

noun

A person who does boring or unpleasant jobs that people who are considered more important do not want to do

Usage examples:

It is possible to become a junior account executive without previous experience - although you woul…

verb

Deceive; trick.

Usage examples:

The newspaper was duped into publishing an untrue story

noun

A victim of deception.

Usage examples:

Men who were simply the dupes of their unscrupulous leaders

verb

Make a duplicate or copy of.

Usage examples:

How to dupe 35 mm slides on to 35 mm film

noun

A liveried manservant or footman.

Usage examples:

Liveried flunkies rushed forward to open the doors, tv lights flared, cameras flashed and the crowd…

noun

A person who does unimportant work or who has few or no important responsibilities and shows too much respect toward his or her employer

Usage examples:

He could snap his fingers and get his flunky to do it.

noun

A person who runs errands, especially on a film set or in an office; a dogsbody.

Usage examples:

He had worked his way from a gofer in the front office to general manager

noun

A person whose job is to take messages or to collect and deliver things for other people

noun

Someone who does boring jobs for other employees, for example carrying messages or making drinks

Usage examples:

David works as a gofer at an independent television production company.

noun

A person employed to do menial work.

Usage examples:

The poorly paid hirelings in their shabby clothes

noun

A tool or implement, especially one for precision work.

Usage examples:

A surgical instrument

verb

Equip (something) with measuring instruments.

Usage examples:

Engineers have instrumented rockets to study the upper atmosphere

noun

An object, such as a piano, guitar, or flute, which is played to produce musical sounds

Usage examples:

He plays saxophone, trumpet, and several other instruments., surgical instruments

noun

A servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant.

Usage examples:

Lackeys were waiting to help them from the carriage

verb

Behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Usage examples:

He had lacqueyed and flattered walpole

noun

A servant or someone who behaves like one by obeying someone else's orders or by doing unpleasant work for them

Usage examples:

He treats us all like his lackeys.

noun

A follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one.

Usage examples:

He gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off

noun

A person who is not important and who has to do what another person of higher rank orders them to do

Usage examples:

He sent one of his minions to do something about it.

adjective

(of a living human being, often in contrast to a divine being) subject to death.

Usage examples:

All men are mortal

noun

A human being subject to death, as opposed to a divine being.

Usage examples:

Capacities only possible of god rather than mortals

adjective

(of living things, esp. people) unable to continue living forever; having to die

Usage examples:

Humans are mortal and we all eventually die., as the ship began to sink, they realized they were in…

noun

An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.

Usage examples:

Fish and other organisms have been destroyed over large areas of the creek

noun

A single living plant, animal, or other living thing

noun

A chess piece of the smallest size and value, that moves one square forwards along its file if unobstructed (or two on the first move), or one square diagonally forwards when making a capture. each player begins with eight pawns on the second rank, and can promote a pawn to become any other piece (typically a queen) if it reaches the opponent's end of the board.

Usage examples:

The game of chess with sword-wielding pawns and deadly queens is both dramatic and mightily beautif…

verb

Deposit (an object) with a pawnbroker as security for money lent.

Usage examples:

I pawned the necklace to cover the loan

noun

An object left as security for money lent.

Usage examples:

The bank did lend money upon pawns at low interest

noun

A dog of a breed (of which there are several varieties) with a curly coat that is often ornamentally clipped. poodle breeds are classified by size.

Usage examples:

The dogs included shih-tzus, dachshunds, lhasa apsos, bearded collies, corgis, chihuahuas, poodles,…

verb

Move or travel in a leisurely manner.

Usage examples:

The chap who just wants to poodle along the road at 50 mph

noun

A type of dog with curly hair that is usually cut only on parts of its body

noun

A movable model of a person or animal that is typically moved either by strings controlled from above or by a hand inside it.

Usage examples:

A puppet show

noun

A thing that holds something in place.

Usage examples:

A guitar string retainer

noun

An amount of money that you pay to someone in advance so that the person will work for you when needed

Usage examples:

He was on a $150,000 retainer from lloyd's of london.

noun

An amount of money that you pay to a lawyer, consultant (= someone paid to give expert advice or training), etc. in order to be sure that they can work for you when you need them to

Usage examples:

The firm retained white as a consultant, paying him a $5,000 retainer., get/be on/receive a retaine…

noun

A person who performs duties for others, especially a person employed in a house on domestic duties or as a personal attendant.

Usage examples:

Financially they were well enough established to be able to employ a domestic servant.

noun

A person who is employed to do work for another person, esp. to work in another person’s home doing jobs such as cooking and cleaning

Usage examples:

A civil/public servant

noun

A female domestic servant who performs menial tasks.

Usage examples:

I found a job as a maid-of-all-work, a skivvy

verb

Do menial household tasks; work as a skivvy.

Usage examples:

I was skivvying for that brixton family

noun

A person, in the past a female servant, who does the dirty and unpleasant jobs in a house, such as cleaning

Usage examples:

He treats me like a skivvy., i wouldn't strip down to my skivvies for any amount of money., skivvy …

noun

The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.

Usage examples:

It ignores all the empirical evidence for animal awareness while resting on an assumption for which…

noun

The part of a person that some people believe continues to exist in some form after the body has died, or the part of a person or thing that expresses the basic qualities that make it what it is

Usage examples:

May her soul rest in peace., he is the soul of honor, and would never intentionally try to deceive …

noun

The spiritual part of a person that some people believe continues to exist in some form after their body has died, or the part of a person that is not physical and experiences deep feelings and emotions

Usage examples:

She suffered greatly while she was alive, so let us hope her soul is now at peace.

noun

A subordinate used by another to do unpleasant routine work.

Usage examples:

Party stooges put there to do a job on behalf of central office

verb

Move about aimlessly; drift or cruise.

Usage examples:

She stooged around in the bathroom for a while

noun

A person who is forced or paid by someone in authority to do an unpleasant or secret job for them

Usage examples:

The newly appointed mayor is widely regarded as a government stooge.

adjective

Lower in rank or position.

Usage examples:

His subordinate officers

noun

A person under the authority or control of another within an organization.

Usage examples:

He was mild-mannered, especially with his subordinates

verb

Treat or regard as of lesser importance than something else.

Usage examples:

Practical considerations were subordinated to political expediency

noun

A gullible or easily deceived person.

Usage examples:

If suckers will actually pay to do the work, more fool them

verb

Fool or trick (someone).

Usage examples:

They got suckered into accepting responsibility

noun

A person who believes everything you say and is therefore easy to deceive

Usage examples:

Josie’s a sucker for burnt almond ice cream., my car won’t start again, and hopefully between the t…

noun

A device or implement, especially one held in the hand, used to carry out a particular function.

Usage examples:

Gardening tools

verb

Impress a design on (leather, especially a leather book cover).

Usage examples:

Volumes bound in green leather and tooled in gold

noun

A piece of equipment that you use to help you do a job, esp. something that you use with your hands to make or repair something

Usage examples:

The only tools you need for this job are a hammer and a screwdriver., we believe the new law will b…

noun

A holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance.

Usage examples:

Liege homage involved the vassal admitting his obligation to pay all services, including the provis…

noun

A person in the middle ages who promises to be loyal to a lord (= a man of high social rank) who will protect him or her

noun

A person who agrees with everything their employer, leader, etc. says in order to please them