What is the difference between animate and inanimate?

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As adjectives the difference between inanimateand animate

is that inanimate is lacking the quality orability of motion; as an inanimate object whileanimate is that which lives.

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Animate energy is produced for mere subsistenceof human being. So, it is small in scale. Inanimate or freeenergy, having immense potential, is large inscale.

what is animate noun? ANIMATE NOUN. A semantic category of NOUN,referring to a person, animal, or other creature (boy, sheep,worm), in contrast to an inanimate noun, which refers to athing or concept (corn, boyhood, sleep). In general, animatenouns correlate with the pronouns he, she, who and inanimatenouns with it, which.

Subsequently, one may also ask, what does inanimate object mean?

Definition of inanimate object. : a thingthat is not alive, such as a rock, a chair, a book,etc.

What is animate energy?

Animate energy sources, derived from human beingsand draught animals (for example, bullocks), account for the bulkof the energy used in agriculture particularly among smalland marginal farmers.