Definitions for animals
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1. Animals

   Animals is the tenth studio album by English progressive rock group Pink Floyd, released in January 1977. A concept album, it provides a scathing critique of the social-political conditions of 1970s Britain, and presents a marked change in musical style from their earlier work. Animals was recorded at the band's studio, Britannia Row, in London, but its production was punctuated by the early signs of discord that several years later would culminate in keyboardist Richard Wright leaving the band. The album's cover image, a pig floating between two chimneys on Battersea Power Station, was conceived by bassist and writer Roger Waters, and photographed by long-time collaborators Hipgnosis. The album was released to generally positive reviews in the United Kingdom, where it reached number 2. It was also a success in the United States, reaching number 3 on the Billboard 200, and although it scored on the American charts for only six months, steady sales have resulted in its certification by the RIAA at four times platinum. The size of the venues on the band's In the Flesh tour, and an incident in which Waters spat at a fan, prompted him to conceive the band's subsequent album, The Wall.

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1. Animals

   Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.

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1. animals

   Plural form of the word animal.

   Animals have a heart, soul, mind and body.

   Submitted by MaryC on January 25, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'animals' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1181

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'animals' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1643

Anagrams for animals »

1. Malians

2. maalins

3. aminals

4. laminas

5. Almains

How to pronounce animals?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of animals in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of animals in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of animals in a Sentence

1. Alexis de Tocqueville:

   After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

2. Kathleen Leary:

   People have put their animals in cages, tied them to trees, dumped them in the woods ... and normally they end up dying from starvation.

3. Bakura Moh'd:

   They tied peoples' hands behind their backs and slit their throats like animals.

4. Mark Norell:

   If they based it just on what we know [about] dinosaurs, it would be a pretty boring movie, we're learning more all of the time, but we can't reconstruct these animals and understand them in a way we understand living animals.

5. Frank McGee:

   We can't say it enough : Wild animals are not pets, feeding deer habituates them to humans. They lose their fear of humans and that leads to these outcomes that are tragic for both wildlife and people. Injured and orphaned wildlife should be taken to licensed wildlife rehabilitators.

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