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How to sign: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
Similiar / Same: organism
Categories: animate thing, living thing
Within this category: aerobe, amphidiploid, anaerobe, animal, animalcule, atavist, benthos, clone, commensal, conspecific, denizen, diploid, eukaryote, haploid, heteroploid, heterotroph, host, hybrid, individual, katharobe, mascot, microorganism, mutant, myrmecophile, nekton, nonvascular organism, parasite, person, plankton, plant, polymorph, polyploid, prokaryote, relative, relict, saprobe, saprophyte, sitter, stander, utterer, zooid
How to sign: be identical to; be someone or something
"The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house";
Similiar / Same: is, am, are, be
How to sign: the state or fact of existing
"a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries";
Similiar / Same: beingness, existence
Categories: state
Within this category: actuality, animation, coexistence, eternity, life, life, possibility, preexistence, presence, subsistence, transcendence