Sample Sentences for
animate
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animate as in:  animated by her strong belief

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    Her conversation is animated by nervous energy and a quick wit.
    animated = made lively
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    I try and animate my face as I recall the event, a true story, in which I'd foolishly challenged a black bear over the rights to a beehive.  (source)
    animate = make more lively
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    Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me.  (source)
    animate = inspire (make more lively)
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    The animated crowd cheers as Hailey's player makes a three-pointer.  (source)
    animated = enthusiastic
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    All of the POWs were in a state of high animation. Louie asked what was happening, and someone told him that the Bird was leaving for good.  (source)
    animation = enthusiasm
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Her sympathy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes, were ever there to bless and animate us.  (source)
    animate = enliven (make more lively)
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    Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward.  (source)
    animating = energizing (bringing to life)
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    They were animatedly talking to each other.  (source)
    animatedly = with enthusiasm or lively movement
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    Whatever we call it—mind, character, soul—we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that "animates" us.†  (source)
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    He speaks all this without any outward alarm, unanimated, not unconcerned but as if the situation is already too far gone.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unanimated means not and reverses the meaning of animated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The movie seemed to leave him hyperanimated.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hyperanimated means extremely or excessively. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
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    He was underweight, but healthy and animated.  (source)
    animated = lively (enthusiastic or excited)
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    Conversing with animation.  (source)
    animation = liveliness or enthusiasm
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animate as in:  an animated cartoon

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She won an award for best animated cartoon.
animated = moving
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    Have you seen the animated version of Lord of the Rings.
    animated = moving cartoon
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    She is one of the animators who worked on the new Disney film.
    animators = people who illustrate (draw to create) moving cartoons
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    Rose had programmed his desk to display—and animate—a bigger-than-life sized picture of male genitals, which waggled back and forth as Rose held the desk on his naked lap.  (source)
    animate = make a moving picture
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    By early afternoon I became so bored that I'd plop down in front of the television and watch Speed Racer cartoons. When I could not stand another animated episode, I'd drag myself to my room and kill time by coloring in a coloring book she had given me.  (source)
    animated = moving cartoon
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    As everybody knows, nothing enhances silly action sequences more than really cheesy animation.  (source)
    animation = moving cartoons
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Other researchers have employed Ekman's system to study everything from schizophrenia to heart disease; it has even been put to use by computer animators at Pixar (Toy Story) and DreamWorks (Shrek).  (source)
    animators = people who create moving cartoons
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    And it was during one of those animations that I got into trouble.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    On the television, an animated film flickered and sputtered with epileptic vim, windmilling geometrics intercut with letters and live-action racecar images.  (source)
    animated = moving cartoon
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    My youth sang the glory of books, the psalms of travel, of new faces, of the universe of Disney animation, of Popsicle sticks and county fairs, of parables of war spoken by a. flight-jacketed father, of parables of love and Jesus sung by a blue-eyed mother, a renegade Baptist, a converted Catholic, a soldier of the Lord.  (source)
    animation = moving cartoons
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    The animators' strike had left the Disney Studio in a precarious financial condition.†  (source)
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    Although its juvenile dial often drew odd looks, Langdon had never owned any other watch; Disney animations had been his first introduction to the magic of form and color, and Mickey now served as Langdon's daily reminder to stay young at heart.†  (source)
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    We watched some Japanese animated film that Will said was perfect hangover viewing, and I stuck around—partly because I wanted to keep an eye on his blood pressure and partly, to be honest, because I was being a bit mischievous.  (source)
    animated = moving cartoon
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    It was clear, however, that she had not taken the trouble to look past him when making these plans: Evan was, well, Evan, and the twins David and Darrin both were sporting Star Wars T-shirts and had spent the entire dinner so far ignoring Lissa and Jess completely while discussing Japanese animation.  (source)
    animation = moving cartoons
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animate as in:  animate v. inanimate

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Is it animate or not?
animate = alive
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    Is it an animate noun?
    animate = living
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    Animacy is one of the most elementary principles in linguistics.
    animacy = a state of being alive or not, or the degree to which as an animal feels and thinks
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    Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?  (source)
    animate = give life to
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    Do inanimate objects (couches, chairs, spatulas, etc.) absorb the energy of the criminals, the wrongdoers among whom they live?  (source)
    inanimate = not living
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inanimate means not and reverses the meaning of animate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I'd go back to the same suspended animation I'd been in before.  (source)
    animation = life
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    ...and before he can get your heart for his own use he has to unfasten it from all the holds upon things animate and inanimate, which so many years' growth have confirmed, and which are considerably tightened for the moment by the very idea of separation.  (source)
    animate = alive
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    The animacy of life hung in abeyance.†  (source)
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    He drew attention to very gradual transitions from inanimate nature to more complicated life forms.  (source)
    inanimate = non-living
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    A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.  (source)
    animation = life
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    In the shadows the mummified bundle—what little was visible—had a ragged, poignant, oddly personal look, less like an inanimate object than some poor creature bound and helpless in the dark, unable to cry out and dreaming of rescue.  (source)
    inanimate = non-living
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    After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.  (source)
    animation = life
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    It's an inanimate object.  (source)
    inanimate = not living
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    Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.  (source)
    animation = life
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