being vs animate thing

being and animate thing both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
being	Yes	No	No	No
animate thing	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, animate thing is a hypernym of being; that is, animate thing is a word with a broader meaning than being:

being: a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
animate thing: a living (or once living) entity

Other hypernyms of being include living thing, causal agency, causal agent, cause.

being (noun)	animate thing (noun)
a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently	a living (or once living) entity
the state or fact of existing