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animation

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Animation is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of film and media studies , focusing on animations implications for other forms of media. The editor-in-chief is Suzanne Buchan ( University for the Creative Arts ). It was established ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Animation \An`i*ma"tion\, n. [L. animatio, fr. animare.] The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. --Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "action of imparting life," from Latin animationem (nominative animatio ) "an animating," noun of action from past participle stem of animare (see animate (v.)). Meaning "vitality" is from 1610s. Cinematographic sense is from 1912.

Usage examples of animation.

I did not leave this question unanswered, and continuing the amorous discourse with animation I won a sigh and a lovelorn glance.

Spielberg was able to integrate computer animatronics and computer animation so seamlessly into his live-action blockbuster that everyone else listened to the ka-ching at the global box-office and decided to embrace the future more enthusiastically.

He sounded more human and was displaying more animation, Asey thought, than he had at any time during their acquaintance.

The gap between these two, a period of nearly five hundred years, I spent in a state of suspended animation, free from the ravages of catabolic processes, and without any apparent effect on my physical or mental faculties.

I tried lifting the mood by showing off a fancy animation, but only Q-Ball, Kekipi, and Cher paid attention.

Therefore the animation of Christ could not be effected in the first instant of His conception.

Geri, Kyle, and I waited with all the animation of the teenaged finalist in one of her sulks.

The cardinal noticed six goldfinches talking with animation to one another down in the old holly bushes.

Paracelsus and Gilbert both felt in the direction of hylozoism, or the theory of the animation of all things.

Stanton, who at this moment joined him, drew his special attention to a thin and under-sized gentleman somewhat past middle age, who mounted the steps with a tread that was as inelastic as his face was devoid of animation.

And those spines, silvery in sheen, suggested ghoulish animation, the existence of which Kaw could sense as a nameless and menacing unease.

He appears to have started on the work with great reluctance and with considerable distrust of his own powers, but once fairly committed to the undertaking he entered into it with something of his old animation, disputing so manfully with his librettist over certain points in the text that a serious rupture between the two was at one time imminent.

Jevese wine, which she drank like water, imparted so much animation to her complexion that it was no longer possible to see how sunburnt she was.

With any degree of animation this young woman might have manifested a most unusual beauty, comprising the languor of a nenuphar and the elegance of some swift white winter beast.

By combining top-of-the-line traditional techniques like puppetry, stop-motion miniature photography, and actors in robber suits, with the latest 3-D computer animation and transitional morphing a design team led by Stan Winston, Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri made dinosaurs come to life like never before.