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单词 animator
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animatorn.

Brit. /ˈanᵻmeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈænəˌmeɪdər/
Forms: 1500s anymator, 1500s– animator.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin animator.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin animator person who animates (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian) < classical Latin animāt- , past participial stem of animāre animate v. + -or -or suffix. Compare animater n.In sense 1b probably after French animateur animateur n.
1.
a. A person who or thing which animates, gives life, enlivens, or inspires; †an encourager (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > inspiring > one who or that which
inspirerc1450
quickenera1500
animator1565
breathera1586
animater1597
inspirator1624
inspirationalist1895
1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 127v He was the anymator of the Rebelles spoken of in the fourth yere of this kynges reigne.
c1566 J. Stow Hist. Memoranda in J. Gardner Three 15th-cent. Chron. (1880) 139 They were the moaste ernyste withstondars of ye lawes,..and ye greatyst animators of ye wholl citie to do the lyke.
1611 T. Coryate Coryates Crambe sig. E The principall animator of my whole band of soldiers to ioyne their hands, their hearts and their purses with me.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells i. Argt. 3 Of all that liue sole Animator.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. 58 Bodyes..conforme themselves to situations, wherein they best unite unto their Animator . View more context for this quotation
1725 W. Whiston Astron. Princ. Relig., Nat. & Reveal'd viii. 196 Pythagoras held there was One God of the whole Universe,..the Illuminator, Animator and Quickner of the whole.
1795 tr. L. S. Mercier Fragm. Politics & Hist. II. 8 A false computation..hinders not luxury..from being the spur of labour, the animator of empires, and the comforter of the human race.
1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey IV. vii. iii. 365 This resurrection-man of science..being merely the accidental animator of the corpse.
1836 W. S. Landor Pericles & Aspasia II. 153 The nobler animators of the frame, the brain and blood.
1927 A. B. Dodd Talleyrand v. 70 The Duc de Choiseul was himself the leading spirit, the animator of this brilliant, discursive talk.
1967 S. Appelbaum & C. C. Strowbridge tr. J. Marías Hist. Philos. 99 Plotinus speaks of a ‘world soul’, the vivifier and animator of the entire world.
2007 Independent 13 Jan. 35/3 These luckless advisers are referred to by the UN as ‘social animators’.
b. spec. = animateur n.
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1946 G. Amberg Art in Mod. Ballet 23 It became obvious that the body of the company would not survive the spirit of its animator by a day, and there was indeed sad truth in the fear that with Diaghilev his ballet would pass away.
1954 Yale French Stud. No. 14. 20 Generally speaking, these animators are not exclusively administrators and directors. They are actors, too, or once were, or they train actors.
1984 Dance Theatre Jrnl. May 10/2 Other schools and polytechnics are way behind with training community dance animators.
2002 Independent 23 Jan. (Neighbourhood Renewal section) 2/3 Stage one involved the appointment of community ‘animators’—residents who would help the consultation process.
2. Film. A maker of animated films; esp. an artist who produces drawings, images, or models for an animated film; (more widely) anyone concerned with the production of an animated film.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > filming unit or team > [noun] > film-maker > types of
animator1918
documentarist1953
documentarian1976
1918 A. R. Wells Cycl. 20th Cent. Illustr. 265/1 The action leading up to each scene is depicted by two or three scores of patient artists called animators.
1936 A. Jenkinson Amer. came my Way xvii. 142 The ‘originals’ drawn by the animators are traced on to celluloid by the tracers.
1970 E. Barnouw Hist. Broadcasting in U.S. III. iii. 206 The animators who had flocked to television had become a sizable industry of small and large units.
2000 Cutting Edge: Encycl. Adv. Technol. 53/1 Without a doubt, computer animation has changed the way that professional animators do their jobs.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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