animatronn.
/ˈanᵻmətrɒn/, U.S. /ˈænəməˌtrɑn/ A robotic model in the likeness of a human, animal, etc., which is programmed to perform intricate, lifelike movements, often in synchronization with a pre-recorded soundtrack. Cf. audio-animatron n.
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1971 Rolling Stone 24 June 35/1 Animatrons were one of Uncle Walt's last technological enthusiasms.
1995 C. Rosen in B. Cardullo What is Dramaturgy? xii. 182 Our national theater does exist... It [sc. Disneyland] employs ‘imagineers’ to build and control ‘animatrons’.
1997 Times (Nexis) 23 July Computer-controlled moving figures, known as animatrons, have become a big part of the Tussaud's waxworks experience.
2005 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 14 Oct. 2 b The crocodile is still played by a person in a reptile suit, not a high-tech animatron.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1971- to prick for
- to prick for a soft plank
- to prick for witches
- to prick in
- to prick in the belt
- to prick in the garter
- to prick in the loop
- to prick near
- to prick on a clout
- to prick out
- to prick over the perk
- to prick the belt
- to prick the chart
- to prick the chart card
- to prick the chart plot
- to prick the garter
- to prick the loop
- to prick the right vein
- to prick up
- to prick up one's ears
- to prime the pump
- to print down
- to print in
- to print money
- to print on