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. 80.8

animation = a moving cartoon
Now quickly flip the right-hand page back and forth until the picture appears to be animated.
p. 81.8

animated = 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. 82.8

animated = 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:

(1) (animate as in: animated by her strong belief)
inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
(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)
(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 thinks

This 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."