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anthropomorphise

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  • verb chiefly UK Alternative spelling of anthropomorphize.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb ascribe human features to something

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Examples

  • And understandable: humans anthropomorphise everything, especially other creatures.

    Link love: language (5) 2009

  • Now, anthropomorphise that shrug, and imagine it dies, but not an exciting death maybe it got caught in a dehumidifier or something.

    This week's new singles 2012

  • Almost half of Japanese would anthropomorphise their robots

    Almost half of Japanese would anthropomorphise their robots 2009

  • They are common, unspectacular and difficult to cutely anthropomorphise.

    Watch this 2010

  • Almost half of Japanese would anthropomorphise their robots

    Home robots wanted by most Japanese women 2010

  • I've never heard of an operation like this being attempted in real life, but it did make me think about our tendency, as dog owners, to anthropomorphise our pets.

    Another view on A Dog's Heart Interview by Laura Barnett 2010

  • For example, players may anthropomorphise a pet to imbue it with qualities that it doesn't have at a a simulationist level; if you can establish that they do this, then you can run tests in the light of this that you couldn't run if you had to show what it was that pets did which made them in the absence of player interpretation behave like real pets.

    Mapping finalized 2010

  • When you anthropomorphise any group of people to speak about them as a single person with intent, that person is nearly always schizophrenic. -- jzap

    Happy Hour Roundup 2009

  • Almost half of Japanese would anthropomorphise their robots

    Almost half of Japanese would anthropomorphise their robots 2007

  • Actually, emotions is one thing animals do have often the way they're expressed is different from the way the same emotion is expressed by a human being; hence - we can't emotionally read some of the stuff, that's why we often anthropomorphise animals in art, etc., it's sometimes missing in humans, though.

    Disturbing animation against global warming « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog 2008

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