animal vs transient

animal

adj
  • Excellent 

  • Of or relating to animals. 

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

  • Raw, base, unhindered by social codes. 

noun
  • Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human. 

  • A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person. 

  • Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.). 

  • A person of a particular type. 

  • A eukaryote of the clade Animalia; 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). 

  • Matter, thing. 

transient

adj
  • Intermediate. 

  • Occasional; isolated; one-off 

  • having a positive probability of being left and never being visited again. 

  • Passing or disappearing with time; transitory. 

  • Decaying with time, especially exponentially. 

  • Operating beyond itself; having an external effect. 

  • Passing through; passing from one person to another. 

  • Remaining for only a brief time. 

noun
  • A relatively loud, non-repeating signal in an audio waveform that occurs very quickly, such as the attack of a snare drum. 

  • A homeless person. 

  • homestay 

  • A transient phenomenon, especially an electric current; a very brief surge. 

  • A module that generally remains in memory only for a short time. 

  • Something that is transient. 

  • A person who passes through a place for a short time; a traveller; a migrant worker. 

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