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

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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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. Miyoko Sakashita:

   The oil spill just shows how dirty and dangerous oil drilling is, and oil that gets into the water, it’s impossible to clean it up so it ends up washing up on our beaches and people come into contact with it and wildlife comes in contact with it, it has long-lasting effects on the breeding and reproduction of animals.

2. Oliver McCaughran:

   These animals feel pain, they feel fear, and their lives are spent confined in cages or as tools in cruel experiments.

3. Sana Jamal:

   The animals have been suffering, whenever we have visited, there was no food and water in most of the enclosures. That's the main reason we wanted to pressurize the ministry to officially take over.

4. Stas Malavin:

   Our report is the hardest proof as of today that multicellular animals could withstand tens of thousands of years in cryptobiosis, the state of almost completely arrested metabolism.

5. Matt Johnson:

   People are paying a lot more for these dead animals, they have some notion that these animals are being treated well.

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