All 7 Uses
animate
in
The Adventures of Captain Underpants
(Edited)
- As everybody knows, nothing enhances silly action sequences more than really cheesy animation.
p. 80.3 *animation = moving cartoons
- And sot for the first time in the history of great literature, we proudly bring you the latest in cheesy animation technology: The art of Flip-O-Rama!
p. 80.8animation = a moving cartoon
- Now quickly flip the right-hand page back and forth until the picture appears to be animated.
p. 81.8animated = a moving cartoon OR (as a verb) made a moving cartoon
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.
p. 82.8animated = moving (as though live action)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.
p. 86.7
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.
p. 90.7
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.
p. 94.7
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) 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."