animate /anˈi-māt/

1. To give life to
2. To enliven
3. To put spirit into
4. To actuate
5. To record still drawings, etc on film or videotape in such a way that the images appear to move

1. Living
2. Having animal life

anˈimated adjective

1. Lively
2. Full of spirit
3. Endowed with life
4. Moving as if alive

anˈimatedly adverb

animatˈic noun (advertising, cinematography, etc)

1. A section of animation in or for a TV commercial, film, etc
2. A rough simulation of a TV commercial, etc, produced from a storyboard with a voice-over

anˈimating adjective

anˈimatingly adverb

animāˈtion noun

1. The act of animating
2. The state of being alive
3. Liveliness
4. Vigour
5. The creation of the illusion of movement, esp in an animated cartoon
6. The technique or craft of this
7. The creation of moving images on a screen (computing)

anˈimatism noun

The primitive attribution of life to natural phenomena and natural objects, but not (as in animism) belief that spirits reside in them

anˈimātor noun (also, chiefly US, anˈimāter)

1. A person who enlivens or animates something
2. An artist who makes drawings for animated cartoons, films, etc

animatronˈic adjective

Of or like something animated by animatronics

animatronˈics singular noun

The art of animating a lifelike figure of a person, animal, etc on a computer screen

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