animate

verb (animate, animates, animated, animating); adjective (animate)

«animate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

verb: To make drawings or models seem to move in a film or cartoon. tree →
verb: To make something more lively or interesting. tree →
adjective: Alive, living (opposite: inanimate). tree →

In the lessons

In art and computing lessons, pupils animate characters frame by frame; in science, animate things are living, inanimate are not. Phrases: «animate a cartoon», «animated film», «animate and inanimate».

Examples

We animated a dancing robot in computing. tree →
A smile animated her whole face. tree →
Plants and animals are animate; rocks are inanimate. tree →
It takes many drawings to animate one second. tree →
His stories animated the boring lesson. tree →
Clay figures were animated for the film. tree →

Note

Verb said «AN-i-mate», adjective «AN-i-mit». Noun: animation; adjective «animated» also means lively.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «animate» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«animate» in the school dictionary on Mova free.

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