All 6 Uses of
animate
in
Fast Food Nation
- In 1941 hundreds of Disney animators went on strike, expressing support for the Screen Cartoonists Guild.†
p. 36.6 *animators = people who create moving cartoons
- The animators' strike had left the Disney Studio in a precarious financial condition.†
p. 38.2
- Less than ten years after the liberation of Dora-Nordhausen, von Braun was giving orders to Disney animators and designing a ride at Disneyland called Rocket to the Moon.†
p. 39.1
- Walt Disney neither wrote, nor drew the animated classics that bore his name.†
p. 33.6
- Rounded, soft creatures like Barney, Disney's animated characters, and the Teletubbies therefore have an obvious appeal to young children.†
p. 45.1 *
- Conway's Red Top Restaurant occupies a modest brick building on a street full of old western motels, the kind with animated neon Indian chiefs on their signs, the kind where the U in the 4-U Motel is a golden horseshoe.†
p. 257.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(animate as in: animated by her strong belief) inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
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(2)
(animate as in: an animated cartoon) make a moving cartoon (a film technique that uses a set of gradually changing pictures to simulate movement when played in series)
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(3)
(animate as in: animate v. inanimate) alive; or (more rarely) an animal--not a plant; or (more rarely still) the degree to which as an animal feels and thinksThis sense of animate is typically contrasted with inanimate. The adjective animate describes something as being alive--such as a dog. The adjective inanimate describes something as not being alive--such as a rock.
Note that this sense of animate is pronounced differently than other senses. Most senses whether used as a noun or an adjective) rhyme with mate, but this sense rhymes more closely with mutt". -
(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, Linguists use the form animacy to describe whether (or the degree to which) a noun feels and thinks. It impacts grammar. For example, in English, "She moved" v. "It moved."