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verb
- 1. bring to life: "the desert is like a line drawing waiting to be animated with color"
- 2. give (a movie or character) the appearance of movement using animation techniques: "much-loved characters have been animated in this Franco-Canadian co-production"
adjective
- 1. alive or having life: "all of creation, animate and inanimate"
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The meaning of ANIMATE is possessing or characterized by life : alive. How to use animate in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Animate.
to make someone seem more happy or active: A sparkle in his eyes animated his face whenever he smiled. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of animate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) animate | American Dictionary. verb [ T ] us / ˈæn·əˌmeɪt /
To animate is to make lively or give spirit to. Someone can animate a dull situation by bringing some energy to it, such as with humor, music, or anything that is associated with movement or emotion. To animate also means to give motion to, the way a cartoonist or animator does with drawings.
At its most basic, animate means simply alive, while inanimate means not living, not moving around. But animate also means spirited, or brought to life.
To animate is to create a liveliness: Health and energy animated his movements. To invigorate means to give physical vigor, to refresh, to exhilarate: Mountain air invigorates. To stimulate is to arouse a latent liveliness on a particular occasion: Coffee stimulates.
to make someone seem more happy or active: A sparkle in his eyes animated his face whenever he smiled. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of animate from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) animate | Intermediate English. verb [ T ] us / ˈæn·əˌmeɪt /
Definition of animate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to render or produce (a story, character, movie, etc.) by using animation: to animate the characters in a video game; to animate a children's story; to animate the characters in a video game; an animated film.
: to make (something, such as a drawing) appear to move by creating a series of drawings, pictures, etc., and showing them quickly one after another: to make (something) appear to move by using the process of animation
1. Possessing life; living. See Synonyms at living. 2. Of or relating to animal life as distinct from plant life. 3. Belonging to the class of nouns that stand for living things: The word dog is animate; the word car is inanimate. 4. Frequently moving; active or vigorous: a bird with an animate tail.
