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# animation

noun (animation — uncountable; an animation, animations)

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

## Everyday

1. A cartoon or film made by showing many drawings, models or computer pictures one after another so they seem to move. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#m1)
2. The art or work of making such films. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#m2)
3. Liveliness and excitement in the way someone talks or moves. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x1)
- Animation needs many pictures every second. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x2)
- My favourite animation is about a dragon who can't fly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x3)
- In Scratch, we coded an animation of a cat dancing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x4)
- She told the story with great animation, waving her arms. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x5)
- A flip book is a simple kind of animation. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x6)

### 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.

## On Mova

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