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animation

[ an-uh-mey-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

animated quality; liveliness; vivacity; spirit:
to talk with animation.
Synonyms: sprightliness, exhilaration, ardor, enthusiasm, energy, vigor
Antonyms: sluggishness
an act or instance of animating or enlivening.
the state or condition of being animated.
Graphic Arts
1. a dynamic visual medium produced from static drawings, models, or objects posed in a series of incremental movements that are then rapidly sequenced to give the illusion of lifelike motion.
2. the process of preparing such animation, as for films, cartoons, video games, etc.
3. a product of such animation, as a film or cartoon.

animation

/ ˌænɪˈmeɪʃən /

liveliness; vivacity
the condition of being alive
1. the techniques used in the production of animated cartoons
2. a variant of animated cartoon

1590–1600; 1910–15 animation fordef 4; (< Middle French ) < Latin animātiōn- (stem of animātiō a bestowing of life). See animate, -ion

Stop-motion animation artist PES has unveiled a new short this week.

As for Ready for Hillary, it now survives in a sort of suspended animation.

Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of DreamWorks Animation, is basically the “new George Soros.”

Shooting entirely on film, Davis personally oversaw the animation of the specters at his production studios in Indiana.

Garfield the cat occupies an understated and often overlooked position critical to the history of televised animation.

The quadroon was following them with little quick steps, having assumed a fictitious animation and alacrity for the occasion.

He spoke with an animation and earnestness that gave an exaggerated importance to every syllable he uttered.

The duke was in the highest animation, and he talked to every one round him, as we marched along, with more than condescension.

The orators of the opposition declaimed against him with great animation and asperity.

As the hour of death drew near, her courage and animation seemed to increase.

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