anime
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əˌmeɪ noun
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
Origin:
1985–90; < Japanese, borrowing of English animation
1985–90; < Japanese, borrowing of English animation
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anime (ˈænɪˌmeɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a type of Japanese animated film with themes and styles similar to manga comics | |
| [C20: from Japanese] | |
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Anime
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| animé1 (ˈænɪˌmeɪ, -mɪ) | |
| —n | |
| any of various resins, esp that obtained from the tropical American leguminous tree Hymenaea courbaril | |
| [French: of uncertain origin] | |
| animé2 (ˈænɪˌmeɪ) | |
| —adj, —adv | |
| music the French word for animato | |
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| Main Entry: | anime |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | See Japanimation |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
anime
c.1985, Japanese for "animation," a term that seems to have arisen in the 1970s, apparently based on Fr. l'animé, from the same root as animate. Manga (q.v.) is Japanese for "comic book, graphic novel," but anime largely are based on manga
and until 1970s, anime were known in Japan as manga eiga or "TV manga." The two terms are somewhat confused in Eng.
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Example sentences
It's a rare chance to watch the series that started the artistic explosion that became anime.
In less than a decade, anime has gone from cult chic to mainstream acceptance.
As in many other anime features, the story is at once fairy-tale simple and epically convoluted.
But when it comes to creating derivative works, the commercial comic and anime companies look the other way.
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