Creature vs. Animal

Creature and Animal Definitions
Creature
A living being, especially an animal
Land creatures.
Microscopic creatures in a drop of water.
Animal
Any of numerous multicellular eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Metazoa (or Animalia) that ingest food rather than manufacturing it themselves and are usually able to move about during at least part of their life cycle. Sponges, jellyfishes, flatworms, mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates are animals.
Creature
A human.
Animal
An animal organism other than a human, especially a mammal.
Creature
An imaginary or fantastical being
Mythological creatures.
A creature from outer space.
Animal
A person who behaves in a bestial or brutish manner.
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Creature
One dependent on or subservient to another.
Animal
A human considered with respect to their physical nature, as opposed to rational or spiritual nature.
Creature
Something created.
Animal
A person having a specified aptitude or set of interests
“that rarest of musical animals, an instrumentalist who is as comfortable on a podium with a stick as he is playing his instrument” (Lon Tuck).
Creature
A living being; an animal.
Animal
Relating to, characteristic of, or derived from an animal or animals, especially when not human
Animal cells.
Animal welfare.
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Creature
An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
Animal
Relating to the physical as distinct from the rational or spiritual nature of people
Animal instincts and desires.
Creature
A human.
Animal
(science) 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).
A cat is an animal, not a plant. Humans are also animals, under the scientific definition, as we are not plants.
Creature
A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
Animal
(loosely) Any member of the kingdom Animalia other than a human.
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Creature
A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
Animal
Any land-living vertebrate (i.e. not fishes, insects, etc.).
Creature
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.
God's first creature was light.
On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extolHim first, him last, him midst, and without end.
And most attractive is the fair resultOf thought, the creature of a polished mind.
Animal
(figuratively) A person who behaves wildly; a bestial, brutal, brutish, cruel, or inhuman person.
My students are animals.
Creature
A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
The world hath not a sweeter creature.
Animal
(informal) A person of a particular type.
He's a political animal.
Creature
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.
Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.
Animal
, thing.
A whole different animal
Creature
A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
Animal
Of or relating to animals.
Animal instincts
Creature
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
Animal
Raw, base, unhindered by social codes.
Animal passions
Creature
A human being; `wight' is an archaic term
Animal
Pertaining to the spirit or soul; relating to sensation or innervation.
Creature
A person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else
Animal
Excellent
Animal
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.
Animal
One of the lower animals; a brute or beast, as distinguished from man; as, men and animals.
Animal
Of or relating to animals; as, animal functions.
Animal
Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites.
Animal
Consisting of the flesh of animals; as, animal food.
Animal
A living organism characterized by voluntary movement
Animal
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
Animal
Of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from an animal or animals;
The animal kingdom
Animal instincts
Animal fats
Decaying vegetable matter