All 9 Uses
animate
in
The Water is Wide
(Edited)
- They were pitifully skinny, unanimated, dull-eyed, and seemingly retarded.
p. 37.9unanimated = not livelystandard 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.
- They then told me about hunting on the island, and the boys became extremely animated describing the number of squirrels to be found deep in the woods and how you had to be a great shot to pick out the gray tuft of fur high in the black oaks and bring it down with one shot of the .
p. 41.6animated = excited
- Thomas would sit in the middle of a large group of animated black men on the steps of a crumbling tenement.
p. 79.6animated = enthusiastic
- I became more animated.
p. 123.4animated = lively or enthusiastic
- By nature I am high-strung and animated, but when frustration confronts me head-on, I degenerate into a demoniac.
p. 142.5animated = energized
- Even though one of the children suffered a relatively serious injury and I failed by twenty-four hours to transport the group back to the island on time, the power of the children's unanimous, animated support of the venture erased any reluctance the parents might have experienced.
p. 155.7 *animated = enthusiastic
- 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.
p. 157.7 *animation = moving cartoons
- Most of them talked animatedly, laughed with mild restraint, and seemed to be enjoying the festival beneath the trees.
p. 233.2animatedly = enthusiastically
- We had watched every film on wildlife I could lay my hands upon, but nothing could equal the drama of seeing the great cats, the animated bears, the pool of seals, the elephants, and reptiles alive and moving before their eyes.
p. 250.1animated = lively (enthusiastic, excited, or moving a lot) OR (as a verb) to inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
Definitions:
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(animate as in: animated by her strong belief) inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
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(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". -
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(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."