Definition of animation
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: animated cartoon
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: the preparation of animated cartoons
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Examples of animation in a Sentence
The animation for the film took over two years to complete.
The studio used computer animation for some of the special effects.
The Web site has hundreds of animations you can download.
Recent Examples of animation from the Web
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Dead horses, dead butterflies and Death itself are littered throughout this series of animations from around the world.
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By keeping everything flat, animation allows viewers to imagine what is behind the images.
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Takahata never drew himself, which led to his movies often serving as an outlet for Ghibli's most experimental and brilliant animation.
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This is his ninth feature film and second using stop-motion animation.
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This ode to Hollywood’s Golden Age seamlessly combines live-action and animation, as cartoon characters ramble through kaleidoscopic capers and then step off set into 1947 Los Angeles to gripe about their paychecks.
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Study participants were tasked with repeatedly studying animations featuring two different objects, such as a flower and a dinosaur.
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As part of their study, Cesana-Arlotti and his colleagues also reported infants’ pupils dilated when watching animations featuring illogical outcomes.
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For the film, The Breadwinner Nora Twomey brought to life the fictional story of a heroic 11-year-old using vivid colors and animation.
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First Known Use of animation
1597
animation Synonyms
Synonyms
briskness, exuberance, jazziness, liveliness, lustiness, peppiness, robustness, sprightliness, vibrance, vibrancy, vigorousness, vitality;
Antonyms
Near Antonyms
languidness, languor, lethargy, limpness, listlessness, sleepiness, sluggishness, spiritlessness, torpidity, torpor, weariness;
dullness (also dulness), pallidness, tediousness, tedium, vapidity, vapidness;
Related Words
buoyancy, jauntiness, springiness;
brightness, cheer, cheerfulness, chirpiness, effervescence, friskiness, pizzazz (or pizazz), sparkle, spirit, verve, vivaciousness, vivacity;
eagerness, ebullience, ebulliency, enthusiasm, keenness, spiritedness;
ANIMATION Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of animation for English Language Learners
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: a lively or excited quality
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: a way of making a movie by using a series of drawings, computer graphics, or photographs of objects (such as puppets or models) that are slightly different from one another and that when viewed quickly one after another create the appearance of movement
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: a movie or brief scene that is made this way
ANIMATION Defined for Kids
Definition of animation for Students
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: a lively or excited quality
- She spoke with animation about her trip.
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: a way of making a movie by using slightly different pictures that when shown quickly in a series create the appearance of movement
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