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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
creature
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
creature comforts
shy creatures
▪ Deer are shy creatures.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
beautiful
▪ His doe's a beautiful creature, too.
▪ Dominic remains, I would say, a preposterously beautiful creature.
▪ The Copper Beech Naiads were the most beautiful creatures any of them had ever seen.
▪ To me, Dominic was always a beautiful creature.
▪ It is the same with visual responses to light and darkness, to summer and winter, to beautiful creatures or plants.
▪ They were beautiful creatures with red legs, black head and thorax, and black white-ringed antennae.
▪ Even if I break your cage, I can't reach you, beautiful creature!
▪ At the sight they forgot the goddess and turned in pursuit of the beautiful creature.
different
▪ We can not say that there is a separate, solid, objective world which different creatures perceive in different ways.
▪ In each different place, he caught different furry creatures that I would never have known existed.
▪ You control our heroine Jill as she battles with different creatures in her search for weapons, gems and health giving food.
▪ Online services are very different creatures from Internet service providers.
▪ He was Mr Summerchild - an entirely different creature.
▪ There are many sequences of eyes in different creatures.
▪ Strange alloys can be made with ingredients from different creatures.
furry
▪ Pozzo was a small black furry creature that, years ago, had belonged to Henry.
▪ In each different place, he caught different furry creatures that I would never have known existed.
▪ Read in studio A pet lover with a passion for hamsters has let the furry creatures take over her terraced house.
▪ Edward Koren, whose furry creatures often defy links to any known species?
▪ You might see a group of these furry creatures in fields beside railway tracks.
large
▪ We know they were not large creatures and, probably, sought security by congregating.
▪ What is the largest air-breathing creature ever to inhabit the earth?
▪ This must be considered a bonus to the food resources available to any larger creatures.
▪ Consequently, the larger creatures that prey on them, the raptors, are fleeing starvation too.
▪ Simply by growing larger, creatures suffer a continual decrease in relative surface area.
▪ I crawl into my sleeping bag and drift off, listening to large creatures moving nearby in a dark sea.
▪ The invertebrates include quite large creatures, such as freshwater shrimps and crayfish.
little
▪ They are strange little creatures with a shell-like carapace and clinging feeler-like attachments.
▪ These little creatures are mostly white, in the tradition of the popular white child-like Snowbabies.
▪ And indeed the little creature merely sighed before lying motionless, the fateful twitching stilled at last.
▪ That little creature must have had a strength to survive that we can only guess at.
▪ These days, there is little doubt that creatures possess a mind structure.
▪ These tough little creatures had just walked a thousand kilometers or so on nothing but milk, chilli and flour.
▪ It means they can learn more about the lifestyle of the little creatures.
▪ I was beyond fury at this little creature, who had spoiled my chances at amassing a fortune of pink clay.
living
▪ This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.
▪ The positive forms of living creatures express the internal pressure of their circulatory systems.
▪ The sensory and motor indriyas are an integral part of the internal mind configuration of all living creatures.
▪ Whether or not a particular form of radiation has any effect on a living creature depends upon three factors.
▪ The same, of course, applies to all interactions between living creatures, including human to human.
▪ The last thing I want is to impale this dancing, living creature upon the stake of meaning.
▪ That men are living creatures is a contingent fact.
▪ Like all living creatures because House Dust Mites eat, they also excrete.
other
▪ Many other creatures feed on the animals that feed in this way, or upon the animals that feed on them.
▪ Amuletic wands were carved from its teeth with the object of deterring snakes and other noxious creatures.
▪ So plants, quite naturally, have the ability to protect themselves from predators, just as all other creatures do.
▪ The other creatures screeched nervously, but they weren't running away.
▪ For Descartes, only humans had souls, animals and other creatures did not.
▪ There was a seal there in some water, a great herring gull with a damaged foot, and other creatures.
▪ Warriors of Chaos, human outcasts from the wars, flocked to join the Beastmen and other creatures of Chaos.
▪ But it was a place that drew other creatures to its calm, to rest awhile and find their strength again.
poor
▪ My poor creature, you see, is not like all the other grim shades who have preceded him.
▪ Oh, come in, come in, you poor creature.
▪ The poor creature must have wondered what was going on, as it was already fully airworthy!
▪ The poor creature lifted itself up on its wobbly front legs and then dragged its hindquarters behind it.
▪ She gave the poor creature a kick, then smiled at me with toothless gums.
▪ I shall do everything in my power to help these poor creatures.
▪ No doubt several of these poor creatures died.
▪ What d' you think you're doing exploiting the poor creature like this?
shy
▪ These shy creatures may sometimes be seen and have been known to stray on to the road, startling passing motorists.
▪ Would such a shy creature really prey on human offspring?
▪ The panda is a shy creature, not used to being in contact with other animals, particularly humans.
▪ This simple test showed that all mankind was one; but it was difficult to do with exotic or shy creatures.
▪ In the main they are shy creatures, though their speed, strength and agility demand a healthy respect.
▪ The plan will involve studying the behaviour of these shy nocturnal creatures which live in the thickest parts of woods.
small
▪ Some grew to a length of two metres and were armed with immense pincers with which they seized smaller creatures.
▪ Or is it simply the way most adults have learned to approach small creatures?
▪ The many small creatures of the oriental forests support a population of small predators.
▪ Then she notices a lady-bug or some such small creature and can not help but become fascinated by it.
▪ The bird, a small creature, abruptly fled.
▪ Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures.
▪ In the kitchen I scoured the cupboards, and poured disinfectant over small black creatures like woodlice.
▪ It is absolutely crucial to the lives of the small creatures that the rock is returned precisely where it was found.
strange
▪ They are strange little creatures with a shell-like carapace and clinging feeler-like attachments.
▪ The strange but arresting creatures become instant celebrities.
▪ He simply had no idea what these strange creatures could look like in the flesh.
▪ From there, he studied this strange creature more closely.
▪ Soon all my master's neighbours were talking about the strange little creature he had found in a field.
▪ But no person could command these strange creatures more than three times.
▪ What makes us strange creatures tick, Liz, do you know?
▪ Spinning bodies, eyes popping out of heads, hair standing on end, characters morphing into strange creatures.
tiny
▪ It was not possible that such a tiny creature could be showing such fearful strength; and yet it did.
▪ Directly below her were some tiny creatures crawling over the surface.
▪ How can a tiny creature like you have such inhuman, cruel ideas?
▪ Jackie sat on the edge of his bed, a tiny, spiky creature, utterly alone.
▪ Inside, the tiny creature skidded to a halt on the marble floor, terrified by the sudden din of the gathering.
▪ Maggie stared at people walking about far below, tiny creatures that could hardly be recognized.
▪ She loved this tiny creature so much she didn't know how to contain it, or how to show it enough.
▪ The sheer mass of Snotlings can overwhelm or tie down an enemy unit even if the tiny creatures don't cause many casualties!
wild
▪ The pair of them were wild, undisciplined creatures.
▪ Where great, wild creatures ranged, the vermin prosper.
▪ All wild creatures behave in the same way when presented with a cache of food and plenty of competition for it.
▪ They need help, my dear, as our wild creatures have needed help, and that is why I must go.
▪ Oh, wild creature, it's you I've dared to demand in the garden of paradise.
▪ The results are frequently fatal to the wild creatures.
▪ And be quick, watchful, clever, like a wild creature that must elude the hunters.
▪ They would tear to pieces the wild creatures they met and devour the bloody shreds of flesh.
■ NOUN
comfort
▪ His attitude towards creature comforts was demonstrated by his regimen in Downing Street.
▪ The crews made on-the-spot modifications to increase protection, firepower, or creature comforts.
sea
▪ It was like being the first sea creature to crawl on to the shore and discover his gills had become lungs.
▪ A gray gull carries some sea creature high up over the beach, drops it from its beak.
▪ Also unearthed - perfectly preserved examples of the food they lived off - literally hundreds of ammonites and other small sea creatures.
▪ As so often seemed to be the case, the cavorting sea creatures heralded bad weather.
▪ The sense of a deep sea creature, defined only by light, is very strong.
■ VERB
live
▪ Our perception of parrots as somehow our rightful property has been destructive for the living creature in its natural environment.
▪ This stated that living creatures multiply at a rate that exceeds the capacity of the environment to maintain them.
▪ And so on down the catalog of living creatures.
▪ There are many other ways of being a living creature.
▪ It was evening; not a house, not a living creature, was to be seen.
▪ Other odd patterns appear as different genes band together-as they must-to build a living creature.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dumb animals/creatures
▪ We would become like dumb animals, oxen, or go crazy, and probably both.
▪ Would that as many animal lovers were as quick to speak and defend dumb animals instead of staying silent as so many do.
▪ You don't have to look far to see these dumb creatures crawling across the branches of many organizations today.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ creatures of the deep
▪ The Housing Board was a creature of Mayor Beller's design.
▪ The movie's about creatures from outer space.
▪ They found a fossil of a small, sparrow-like creature.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But they, like all creatures, clearly have their own inner life.
▪ Great big and fearsome Dimetrodon, a species of dinosaur, was the most powerful creature.
▪ Higher still up the Sizewell natural food chain is another creature we had gone especially to find-marine skuas.
▪ Jainism, a Hindu reform church, prohibits the killing of any living creature.
▪ The pull of the invisible creature grew stronger.
▪ The scale and spirit of the iron creatures on display brought to mind one image: mechanical dinosaurs without skin.
▪ They were rare, complex creatures of overwhelming confidence, persistence and ambition.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Creature

Creature \Crea"ture\ (kr[=e]"t[=u]r; 135), n. [F. cr['e]ature, L. creatura. See Create.]

  1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

    He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him.
    --Fuller.

    God's first creature was light.
    --Bacon.

    On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
    --Milton.

    And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
    --Cowper.

  2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.

    The world hath not a sweeter creature.
    --Shak.

  3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

    A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.
    --Shak.

    Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.
    --Macaulay.

  4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

    Creature comforts, those objects, as food, drink, and shelter, which minister to the comfort of the body.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
creature

late 13c., "anything created," also "living being," from Old French creature (Modern French créature), from Late Latin creatura "thing created," from creatus, past participle of Latin creare "create" (see create). Meaning "anything that ministers to man's comforts" (1610s), after I Tim. iv:4, led to jocular use for "whiskey" (1630s).

Wiktionary
creature

n. (context now rare English) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.

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WordNet
creature

  1. n. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna]

  2. a human being; `wight' is an archaic term [syn: wight]

  3. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: tool, puppet]

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Wikipedia
Creature

Creature is often used as a synonym for animal. Creature or creatures may also refer to:

Creature (album)

Creature is the second studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Moist, released in 1996. It featured the singles "Leave it Alone", "Resurrection", "Tangerine", and "Gasoline".

Creature (1985 film)
This entry is for the film in 1985. For the film that was aired as Creature on SciFi UK, see Alien Lockdown

Creature (aka The Titan Find or Titan Find) is a 1985 science fiction horror film directed by William Malone, featuring Stan Ivar, Wendy Schaal, Lyman Ward, Robert Jaffe and Diane Salinger. It features early special effects work by Robert and Dennis Skotak, who would go on to design the special effects for Aliens.

Creature (band)

Creature is a Canadian pop rock band formed in 2004 in Montreal.

Creature (miniseries)

Creature is a 1998 miniseries starring Craig T. Nelson, Kim Cattrall and Matthew Carey. The movie is based on the 1994 novel White Shark (re-published as Creature in 1997 concurrent with the film) by Jaws author Peter Benchley. The film is about an amphibious shark-like monster terrorizing an abandoned secret military base and the people who live on the island where it is located.

Creature (2011 film)

Creature is a 2011 American monster movie directed by Fred M. Andrews, based on a screenplay written by Andrews and Tracy Morse. The film is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where a group of friends discover a local legend and are in a fight for their survival. The film opened in theaters on September 9, 2011, in the United States and Canada. It stars Mehcad Brooks, Serinda Swan, Amanda Fuller, Dillon Casey, Lauren Schneider, Aaron Hill, Daniel Bernhardt, and Sid Haig. It made headlines for its low gross.

Creature (1999 film)

Creature is a 1999 documentary film that was directed by Parris Patton. The film was released on June 3, 1999 and follows the life of American transgender actor, model, and club personality Stacey "Hollywood" Dean.

Creature (company)

Creature is an advertising agency founded in 2002 with offices in Seattle, Washington and London, England.

The independently held company focuses on design, advertising and innovation to solve business problems for clients. Creature’s office in Washington has a 50-foot long wall, on which the company strategists solve problems and communicate them to clients. Creature clients have included Starbucks, Adidas, Pacífico, Jansport, Dickies, Expedia, moo.com, Seattle’s Best Coffee and the Space Needle.

In 2013 Creature created a tongue-in-cheek campaign “Commercialize Seattle” sponsored by the city of Seattle, Washington to encourage agencies to produce more commercials. In June 2014 Creature hired former Seattle Mayor’s Office Film and Music Director James Keblas as president.

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Usage examples of "creature".

Weavers travelled from town to village to city, appearing at festivals or gatherings, teaching the common folk to recognise the Aberrant in their midst, urging them to give up the creatures that hid among them.

A volley of gunfire tore into the Aberrant creature and it squawked in fury, but it would not let go of its prize.

Tane and Asara were firing on the first Aberrant creature, trying to dissuade it from the panicking manxthwa, but it held fast.

The skin of this young creature, from continual ablutions and the use of mollifying ointments, was inconceivably smooth and soft.

There was a pain as of abrading flesh, and it came up: a fishlike creature with a disk for a head, myriad tiny teeth projecting.

I did not dare to light my lamp before this creature, and as night drew on he decided on accepting some bread and Cyprus wine, and he was afterwards obliged to do as best he could with my mattress, which was now the common bed of all new-comers.

Three months later Madame Costa, the actress whom he had gone to see at Gorice, told me that she would never have believed in the possibility of such a creature existing if she had not known Count Torriano.

Perhaps descendants of coyotes or raccoons, creatures too adaptable ever to need refuge in arks.

I was in despair, and I addressed to myself the fiercest reproaches, upbraiding myself as the cause of the death of that adorable creature.

You are not, adorable creature, my first love, but you shall be the last.

Even when we have demonstrated that all these individual deaths, and the final mass catastrophe, can be blamed on callous aeronautical experiments-perhaps even hostile military demonstrations-carried out by the United States over Mexican territory, some people will remain firmly persuaded that the real responsibility rests on creatures from Jupiter or Polaris, and that somebody is covering up the truth for reasons of policy.

I thought of the afanc, a creature which some have supposed to be the harmless and industrious beaver, others the frightful and destructive crocodile.

In that mysterious region known to explorers as the Sargasso Sea, the youth found a weird metal ship surviving from the lost age of High Atlantis, on which there still lived an Atlantean sorceress, an ageless and beautiful creature called Corenice, who inhabits an eternal and deathless body of impervious metal.

With a gasping shriek the king ape collapsed, clutching futilely for the agile, naked creature nimbly sidestepping from his grasp.

Some of the characters in my tale are present in the Void Which Bind largely as scars, holes, vacancies -- the Nemes creatures are such vacuums, as are Councillor Albedo and the other Core entities -- but I was able to track some of the movements and actions of these beings simply by the movement of that vacancy through the matrix of sentient emotion that was the Void, much as one would see the outline of an invisible man in a hard rain.