animation

«animation» in Mova's school dictionary: A cartoon or film made by showing many drawings, models… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (animation — uncountable; an animation, animations)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cartoon or film made by showing many drawings, models or computer pictures one after another so they seem to move. tree →

2) The art or work of making such films. tree →

3) Liveliness and excitement in the way someone talks or moves. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art and computing lessons children make simple animations with flip books, Scratch or stop-motion clay figures. In everyday life, many films and TV shows are animations. In stories, someone speaking with animation is lively. Phrases: computer animation, stop-motion animation, suspended animation (a state like deep sleep).

examples

• We made a stop-motion animation with plasticine figures. tree →
• Animation needs many pictures every second. tree →
• My favourite animation is about a dragon who can't fly. tree →
• In Scratch, we coded an animation of a cat dancing. tree →
• She told the story with great animation, waving her arms. tree →
• A flip book is a simple kind of animation. tree →

note

Uncountable for the art, countable for a single film. Verb: animate; a person who makes animations is an animator. Films often show 24 pictures (frames) per second.

In the corpora

• A flipbook shows how animation works: still pictures shown quickly look like movement.
• Toy Story, made by Pixar in 1995, was the first full-length film made entirely by computer animation.

Trees and pragmatics

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