animate

«animate» in Mova's school dictionary: verb: To make drawings or models seem to move in a film… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb (animate, animates, animated, animating); adjective (animate)

meaning for a pupil

1) verb: To make drawings or models seem to move in a film or cartoon. tree →

2) verb: To make something more lively or interesting. tree →

3) adjective: Alive, living (opposite: inanimate). tree →

sense in the lessons

In art and computing lessons, pupils animate characters frame by frame; in science, animate things are living, inanimate are not. Phrases: «animate a cartoon», «animated film», «animate and inanimate».

examples

• We animated a dancing robot in computing. tree →
• A smile animated her whole face. tree →
• Plants and animals are animate; rocks are inanimate. tree →
• It takes many drawings to animate one second. tree →
• His stories animated the boring lesson. tree →
• Clay figures were animated for the film. tree →

note

Verb said «AN-i-mate», adjective «AN-i-mit». Noun: animation; adjective «animated» also means lively.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «animate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.