Wiktionary
n. Any of several types of film / movie, the frames of which are drawn by hand in order to give a sense of movement when projected in rapid sequence.
WordNet
n. a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence [syn: cartoon]
Wikipedia
An animated cartoon is a film for the cinema, television or computer screen, which is made using sequential drawings, as opposed to animations in general, which include films made using clay, puppet and other means.
Usage examples of "animated cartoon".
A small drop-leaf table was set with a couple of mismatched plates and glasses which had animated cartoon figures dancing around the rims - jelly glasses, Ben thought with amusement.
A small drop-leaf table was set with a couple of mismatched plates and glasses which had animated cartoon figures dancing around the rims jelly glasses, Ben thought with amusement.
They don't make animated cartoon movies of books by kidnappers and child molesters.
And not just animated cartoon strips (Outcault had beaten him into this territory, too), but that which was uniquely Mac's own —.
Tell me how my Three in One is going to be different from an animated cartoon?
What a compu-drama has, that a mere animated cartoon does not, are subliminal suggestions such as can only be created by a: complex computer in the hands of an imaginative genius.
What my compu-drama has that an animated cartoon doesnt is you, Meg.
I understood, though, what he meant when I faced without him a task that lay untouched on his desk: a request for financial backing for a series of animated cartoon films.
This was, of course, Little Brain: first a doll, later a puppet, then an animated cartoon, and afterward an actress, or, at various other times, a talk-show host, gymnast, ballerina, or supermodel, in a Little Brain outfit.
For some reason Anne Clemens was the voice of Westerland's animated cartoon character.
The bed straightened itself into military rigidity, as in an animated cartoon.
For most of those years she existed in a daze so deep it was like death, and on more than one occasion she found herself almost certain that her life wasn't really happening, that she would eventually awaken, yawning and stretching as prettily as the heroine in a Walt Disney animated cartoon.