Animal vs. Mortar

Animalnoun

In scientific usage, a multicellular organism that is usually mobile, whose cells are not encased in a rigid cell wall (distinguishing it from plants and fungi) and which derives energy solely from the consumption of other organisms (distinguishing it from plants).

‘A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.’;

Mortarnoun

(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.

Animalnoun

In non-scientific usage, any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.

Mortarnoun

A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.

Animalnoun

In non-scientific usage, any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).

Mortarnoun

(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

Animalnoun

(figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.

‘My students are animals.’;

Mortarverb

(transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.

Animalnoun

(informal) A person of a particular type.

‘He's a political animal.’;

Mortarverb

(transitive) To pound in a mortar.

Animalnoun

, thing.

‘a whole different animal’;

Mortarverb

To fire a mortar (weapon).

Animaladjective

Of or relating to animals.

‘animal instincts’;

Mortarnoun

A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.

Animaladjective

Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.

‘animal passions’;

Mortarnoun

A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45°, and even higher; - so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.

Animaladjective

Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.

Mortarnoun

A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; - used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.

Animaladjective

Excellent

Mortarnoun

A chamber lamp or light.

Animalnoun

An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity.

Mortarverb

To plaster or make fast with mortar.

Animalnoun

One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.

Mortarnoun

a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range

Animaladjective

Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.

Mortarnoun

used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall

Animaladjective

Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.

Mortarnoun

a bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle

Animaladjective

Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.

Mortarverb

plaster with mortar;

‘mortar the wall’;

Animalnoun

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Mortarnoun

a short smooth-bore gun for firing shells (technically called bombs) at high angles

‘mortars and machine guns’; ‘nine civilians died in a horrific mortar attack’;

Animaladjective

of the appetites and passions of the body;

‘animal instincts’; ‘carnal knowledge’; ‘fleshly desire’; ‘a sensual delight in eating’; ‘music is the only sensual pleasure without vice’;

Mortarnoun

a device used for firing a lifeline or firework.

Animaladjective

of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals;

‘the animal kingdom’; ‘animal instincts’; ‘animal fats’; ‘decaying vegetable matter’;

Mortarnoun

a cup-shaped receptacle in which ingredients are crushed or ground, used in cooking or pharmacy

‘a pestle and mortar’;

Animalnoun

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

‘wild animals adapt badly to a caged life’; ‘humans are the only animals who weep’;

Mortarnoun

a mixture of lime with cement, sand, and water, used in building to bond bricks or stones.

Animalnoun

an animal as opposed to a human being

‘are humans superior to animals, or just different?’;

Mortarverb

attack or bombard with a mortar

‘at first light the mortaring and sniping started’; ‘the Commando positions were being heavily mortared’;

Animalnoun

a mammal, as opposed to a bird, reptile, fish, or insect

‘the snowfall seemed to have chased all birds, animals, and men indoors’;

Mortarverb

fix or join using mortar

‘the pipe can be mortared in place’;

Animalnoun

a person without human attributes or civilizing influences, especially someone who is very cruel, violent, or repulsive

‘those men have to be animals—what they did to that boy was savage’;

Animalnoun

a particular type of person or thing

‘property development was a different animal altogether’; ‘I am a political animal’;

Animaladjective

relating to or characteristic of animals

‘animal welfare’; ‘the evolution of animal life’;

Animaladjective

of animals as distinct from plants

‘tissues of animal and vegetable protein’;

Animaladjective

characteristic of the physical and instinctive needs of animals; of the flesh rather than the spirit or intellect

‘a crude surrender to animal lust’;

Animaladjective

relating to or denoting the pole or extremity of an embryo that contains the more active cytoplasm in the early stages of development.

Animal

Animals (also called Metazoa) are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals consume organic material, breathe oxygen, are able to move, can reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of cells, the blastula, during embryonic development.