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# animate

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

«animate» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. verb: To make drawings or models seem to move in a film or cartoon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#m1)
2. verb: To make something more lively or interesting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#m2)
3. adjective: Alive, living (opposite: inanimate). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#x1)
- A smile animated her whole face. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#x2)
- Plants and animals are animate; rocks are inanimate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#x3)
- It takes many drawings to animate one second. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#x4)
- His stories animated the boring lesson. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#x5)
- Clay figures were animated for the film. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/#x6)

### Note

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «animate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animate/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«animate» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/animate.html) on Mova free.