Definition of animate in English:

animate

verb ˈanɪmeɪtˈænəˌmeɪt

[with object]

1Bring to life.
Prometheus stole fire from heaven to animate his clay men
Example sentencesExamples
- What is certain is that any such withdrawal would betray the religious concepts of the state which animate the faith-based initiative.
- What strange powers animate the ancient songs brought by the settlers of Founderston from their distant island home along with the bones of Lazarus?
- The power animating the universe, while destructive at times in the cyclical ebb and flow of time and space, is fundamentally grounded in balance.
- Theatre should be about ideas - animating them, making them live and be relevant to society.
- Considering the matter from the opposite point of view brings more clearly into focus the constellation of concerns that animates his thinking here.
- It throws light on a fantastic plan to animate the promenade of the resort by building a series of four giant follies.
- Yet it is more than just a skin, attested by the generous proportions of the apartments and the way in which light animates the interiors.
- But all are animated by color and line moving over them.
- The dead-end of Western policy towards Baghdad is also animating fears about what comes next.
- It is this Burkean notion of rhetoric which animates the spaces of everyday life.
- The exclamations seem to rumble up through McLeish's body as he delivers them, his feelings animating his frame.
- It is animated by light - direct sunlight creates a glow.
- But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media.
- By moving beyond the divisions that often segregate both people and art forms, Diakite eloquently demonstrates the interconnectedness that animates the universe.
- Tadao Ando's stark concrete walls, for instance, assume the remarkable potency of mass transformed by nature when animated by changing light.
- Life, comprised of a complex chain of bio-chemical and physiological processes is activated and animated by an invisible bio-magnetic force.
- I don't know if I buy the idea that this is actually what's animating their foreign policy, though I think the fundamental distinction is sound.
- She is represented here as a sleeping earth goddess, reference to broad ancient principles of respect for the environment and to Aboriginal stories that animates the landscape with the presence and deeds of ancestral figures.
- On this understanding, if the body shows signs of life, then there must be a soul which is animating it; if, at the other end of life, no vital signs can be detected, then ‘the soul has fled’.
- A similar theme animates Waiting for the Barbarians and The Life and Times of Michael K, the two strongest novels by 2003 Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee.
Synonyms
operate, switch on, turn on, start, start off, start up, set going, get going, trigger off, trigger, trip, set in motion, actuate, initiate, initialize, energize
1. 1.1 Give inspiration, encouragement, or renewed vigour to.
  she has animated the government with a sense of political direction
  Example sentencesExamples
  This book will animate, engage and stimulate babies and have nursery classes jumping about with noisy enthusiasm.
  Moving images and sound fill a room animating thought processes and daydreams.
  Brown may never return to the ideas that animated his initial intuition about Oakland as an ‘ecopolis of the future.’
  The budget cuts, a lack of jobs, even a potential war are not animating today's youth.
  ‘Reform of the state should be the core animating idea of the progressive governance agenda this year,’ he writes.
  Sexual energy, whether male or female, is the electrical charge that animates life.
  His inspired perspective has animated prophets and artists and dreamers down through the centuries.
  Reflections of life often animate and inspire the enduring music we call 'classical’.
  Perhaps it is hardships and the thrill of risk that animate life most fully, and perhaps it is freedom that binds.
  We knew we had to bring the lifeline of communications to everyone, and this animated our entire response.
  Egalitarianism is the underlying value system that animates all of these groups - though they differ greatly among themselves in the policies and strategies they embrace to realize their values.
  As for personal picks, local choreographer Marie Chouinard, always a festival fave, animates her company both physically and vocally in her latest creation Chorale, which premiered in Italy earlier this year.
  Talk of renewing the armed struggle was a common theme that animated the narratives.
  The show's animating principle, that O'Briain wants to look back from his deathbed on a life well lived, is equally admirable.
  Metaphors animate and renew meanings; metaphysics supplies tools to think with.
  It is the breath of life and the inward light that animates the human body and inspires the human soul.
  In Paris and later, a strong sense of color continued to animate his work.
  The one-nation ideal, which animated our national struggle, is still there.
  It is this contrast between rich and poor - a contrast so visually obvious as to make the landscape of Caracas feel almost didactic - that animates Venezuelan politics.
  The subject of sport animated him, switched on the plug.
  Synonyms
  enliven, vitalize, give (new) life to, breathe (new) life into, energize, invigorate, revive, vivify, liven up, light up, cheer up, gladden
  encourage, hearten, inspire, exhilarate, thrill, excite, fire, arouse, rouse, stir, stimulate, galvanize, electrify
  informal buck up, pep up, give someone a buzz, ginger up
  North American informal light a fire under
  rare inspirit
2Give (a film or character) the appearance of movement using animation techniques.
much-loved characters have been animated in this Franco-Canadian co-production
Example sentencesExamples
- After years of easily passing $100 million at the box office, recent Disney animated films have struggled to hit that mark.
- In some ways Pocahontas is a natural extension of previous Disney animated films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
- I liked Tarzan, but there hasn't been a truly great Disney animated film that didn't come from Pixar since The Lion King.
- He lent his voice talent to many animated characters, but this one is closest to his own spirit.
- The best animated character in the history of the genre is Daffy Duck.
- Most people know Disney's Snow White as the first animated feature film.
- Last year, Walt Disney Studios released what has been rumored to be one of its final traditionally animated feature-length films.
- All animated films may not be for children, but most are.
- The agreement begins in 2006 when Pixar will release its first animated feature film while not under the Disney umbrella.
- She is the lighting technical director of the film ‘Shrek’, which was hailed world over as the best animated feature film.
- Those who associate him only with animating dinosaurs and skeleton creatures would have been fascinated to see what made up the bulk of the program last night.
- Not that long ago, it was a painstaking task to mix animated characters with real ones.
- In the last ten years, the vast majority of Disney animated films have been soundtrack compilations with a story tacked on.
- Davis became one of many who would hide his comic book pages when a supervisor came by, and hurriedly return to animating Popeye cartoons.
- Over the past year, however, digitally animated films have begun to show an assembly line quality, and Valiant represents a new low.
- The film too often falls into the Sky Captain Syndrome: animated characters fighting other animated characters simply is not interesting.
- It should also be pointed out that the fact that DreamWorks' next four animated films will all be made digitally has nothing to do with the box office failure of Sinbad.
- A team of digital artists can spend months animating a character or creating a landscape.
- As long as future computer animated films maintain the same level of quality as that of the pioneers in the field, their ascendance can only be seen as a positive thing.
- Oskar Fischinger back in the Thirties was animating abstract visuals to music and projecting those.

adjective ˈanɪmətˈænəmət

Alive or having life.
gods in a wide variety of forms, both animate and inanimate
Example sentencesExamples
- A child uses many things when externalizing - both animate and inanimate objects are innocently used to promote and protect individual core identity.
- The animate and the inanimate, human and objects and finally cinema and painting had been exquisitely juxtaposed for superb equivocal effect.
- Singh manifests myriad hues creating a symbiosis between animate and inanimate objects.
- The truth of the matter is that we are very fragile, transient creatures, totally dependent on the complexity of those around us, human and non-human, animate and inanimate.
- I am late coming to this understanding of the creative power of art to touch us in unexpected ways but so grateful to finally feel the beat of animate life in the inanimate object.
- But equally essential to making sense of the chaos of the world and our place in it, is our ability to distinguish between objects and different kinds of things, so living or dead, animate or inanimate.
- Schopenhauer believes that the various species of animate and inanimate things in the world are eternal and static.
- The Tibetan medicine system believes that all phenomena (both animate and inanimate) are comprised of five fundamental elements.
- Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord.
- We shifted our perspective, slowed ourselves down and began to notice the world as a living, breathing beauty, an animate environment of which we humans are a portion, but not its possessors.
- A successful actor-network brings together animate and inanimate objects and resources into a complex, everchanging resilient heterogeneous network.
- Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri.
- Explaining the logic of numerology, he says, everybody and everything, animate or inanimate, has vibrations.
- I can assume any form you please, animate or inanimate.
- It is this quality that makes Griffiths' poetry good - that touching distance between the animate and the inanimate, life and words, that can be breached by poetry.
- This is clear evidence that viruses are unlike any known living thing and are much more like inanimate than animate matter.
- The ‘agent’ in question is merely an organic part of A's body and so not a rational agent or even an ‘animate’ agent, in the sense in which an entire living organism is an animate agent.
- All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks.
- Zen also builds, however, on the East Asian, especially the Taoist, naturalist view that ultimate reality is manifested in each and every concrete phenomenon, including animate and inanimate beings.
- Despite this similarity, there are still elemental differences between being alive and deceased, and between the animate and inanimate.
Synonyms
living, alive, live, breathing, sentient, conscious
organic
archaic quick

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin animat- 'instilled with life', from the verb animare, from anima 'life, soul'.

Definition of animate in US English:

animate

verbˈænəˌmeɪtˈanəˌmāt

[with object]

1Bring to life.
the desert is like a line drawing waiting to be animated with color
Example sentencesExamples
- It throws light on a fantastic plan to animate the promenade of the resort by building a series of four giant follies.
- It is this Burkean notion of rhetoric which animates the spaces of everyday life.
- Theatre should be about ideas - animating them, making them live and be relevant to society.
- What is certain is that any such withdrawal would betray the religious concepts of the state which animate the faith-based initiative.
- A similar theme animates Waiting for the Barbarians and The Life and Times of Michael K, the two strongest novels by 2003 Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee.
- By moving beyond the divisions that often segregate both people and art forms, Diakite eloquently demonstrates the interconnectedness that animates the universe.
- The dead-end of Western policy towards Baghdad is also animating fears about what comes next.
- Tadao Ando's stark concrete walls, for instance, assume the remarkable potency of mass transformed by nature when animated by changing light.
- What strange powers animate the ancient songs brought by the settlers of Founderston from their distant island home along with the bones of Lazarus?
- Life, comprised of a complex chain of bio-chemical and physiological processes is activated and animated by an invisible bio-magnetic force.
- But all are animated by color and line moving over them.
- Yet it is more than just a skin, attested by the generous proportions of the apartments and the way in which light animates the interiors.
- It is animated by light - direct sunlight creates a glow.
- She is represented here as a sleeping earth goddess, reference to broad ancient principles of respect for the environment and to Aboriginal stories that animates the landscape with the presence and deeds of ancestral figures.
- The power animating the universe, while destructive at times in the cyclical ebb and flow of time and space, is fundamentally grounded in balance.
- On this understanding, if the body shows signs of life, then there must be a soul which is animating it; if, at the other end of life, no vital signs can be detected, then ‘the soul has fled’.
- But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media.
- Considering the matter from the opposite point of view brings more clearly into focus the constellation of concerns that animates his thinking here.
- The exclamations seem to rumble up through McLeish's body as he delivers them, his feelings animating his frame.
- I don't know if I buy the idea that this is actually what's animating their foreign policy, though I think the fundamental distinction is sound.
Synonyms
operate, switch on, turn on, start, start off, start up, set going, get going, trigger off, trigger, trip, set in motion, actuate, initiate, initialize, energize
1. 1.1 Give inspiration, encouragement, or renewed vigor to.
  she has animated the nation with a sense of political direction
  Example sentencesExamples
  Perhaps it is hardships and the thrill of risk that animate life most fully, and perhaps it is freedom that binds.
  The show's animating principle, that O'Briain wants to look back from his deathbed on a life well lived, is equally admirable.
  We knew we had to bring the lifeline of communications to everyone, and this animated our entire response.
  This book will animate, engage and stimulate babies and have nursery classes jumping about with noisy enthusiasm.
  His inspired perspective has animated prophets and artists and dreamers down through the centuries.
  The budget cuts, a lack of jobs, even a potential war are not animating today's youth.
  Metaphors animate and renew meanings; metaphysics supplies tools to think with.
  Reflections of life often animate and inspire the enduring music we call 'classical’.
  Brown may never return to the ideas that animated his initial intuition about Oakland as an ‘ecopolis of the future.’
  Moving images and sound fill a room animating thought processes and daydreams.
  The subject of sport animated him, switched on the plug.
  It is the breath of life and the inward light that animates the human body and inspires the human soul.
  As for personal picks, local choreographer Marie Chouinard, always a festival fave, animates her company both physically and vocally in her latest creation Chorale, which premiered in Italy earlier this year.
  Sexual energy, whether male or female, is the electrical charge that animates life.
  Talk of renewing the armed struggle was a common theme that animated the narratives.
  ‘Reform of the state should be the core animating idea of the progressive governance agenda this year,’ he writes.
  It is this contrast between rich and poor - a contrast so visually obvious as to make the landscape of Caracas feel almost didactic - that animates Venezuelan politics.
  In Paris and later, a strong sense of color continued to animate his work.
  Egalitarianism is the underlying value system that animates all of these groups - though they differ greatly among themselves in the policies and strategies they embrace to realize their values.
  The one-nation ideal, which animated our national struggle, is still there.
  Synonyms
  enliven, vitalize, give life to, give new life to, breathe life into, breathe new life into, energize, invigorate, revive, vivify, liven up, light up, cheer up, gladden
2usually be animatedGive (a movie or character) the appearance of movement using animation techniques.
Example sentencesExamples
- Not that long ago, it was a painstaking task to mix animated characters with real ones.
- I liked Tarzan, but there hasn't been a truly great Disney animated film that didn't come from Pixar since The Lion King.
- Most people know Disney's Snow White as the first animated feature film.
- The agreement begins in 2006 when Pixar will release its first animated feature film while not under the Disney umbrella.
- All animated films may not be for children, but most are.
- The best animated character in the history of the genre is Daffy Duck.
- In the last ten years, the vast majority of Disney animated films have been soundtrack compilations with a story tacked on.
- He lent his voice talent to many animated characters, but this one is closest to his own spirit.
- Oskar Fischinger back in the Thirties was animating abstract visuals to music and projecting those.
- After years of easily passing $100 million at the box office, recent Disney animated films have struggled to hit that mark.
- As long as future computer animated films maintain the same level of quality as that of the pioneers in the field, their ascendance can only be seen as a positive thing.
- Over the past year, however, digitally animated films have begun to show an assembly line quality, and Valiant represents a new low.
- The film too often falls into the Sky Captain Syndrome: animated characters fighting other animated characters simply is not interesting.
- She is the lighting technical director of the film ‘Shrek’, which was hailed world over as the best animated feature film.
- In some ways Pocahontas is a natural extension of previous Disney animated films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast.
- It should also be pointed out that the fact that DreamWorks' next four animated films will all be made digitally has nothing to do with the box office failure of Sinbad.
- A team of digital artists can spend months animating a character or creating a landscape.
- Last year, Walt Disney Studios released what has been rumored to be one of its final traditionally animated feature-length films.
- Davis became one of many who would hide his comic book pages when a supervisor came by, and hurriedly return to animating Popeye cartoons.
- Those who associate him only with animating dinosaurs and skeleton creatures would have been fascinated to see what made up the bulk of the program last night.

adjectiveˈanəmətˈænəmət

1Alive or having life.
all of creation, animate and inanimate
Example sentencesExamples
- This is clear evidence that viruses are unlike any known living thing and are much more like inanimate than animate matter.
- Singh manifests myriad hues creating a symbiosis between animate and inanimate objects.
- Despite this similarity, there are still elemental differences between being alive and deceased, and between the animate and inanimate.
- All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks.
- Zen also builds, however, on the East Asian, especially the Taoist, naturalist view that ultimate reality is manifested in each and every concrete phenomenon, including animate and inanimate beings.
- The truth of the matter is that we are very fragile, transient creatures, totally dependent on the complexity of those around us, human and non-human, animate and inanimate.
- Explaining the logic of numerology, he says, everybody and everything, animate or inanimate, has vibrations.
- We shifted our perspective, slowed ourselves down and began to notice the world as a living, breathing beauty, an animate environment of which we humans are a portion, but not its possessors.
- A child uses many things when externalizing - both animate and inanimate objects are innocently used to promote and protect individual core identity.
- I can assume any form you please, animate or inanimate.
- Schopenhauer believes that the various species of animate and inanimate things in the world are eternal and static.
- The animate and the inanimate, human and objects and finally cinema and painting had been exquisitely juxtaposed for superb equivocal effect.
- But equally essential to making sense of the chaos of the world and our place in it, is our ability to distinguish between objects and different kinds of things, so living or dead, animate or inanimate.
- The Tibetan medicine system believes that all phenomena (both animate and inanimate) are comprised of five fundamental elements.
- The ‘agent’ in question is merely an organic part of A's body and so not a rational agent or even an ‘animate’ agent, in the sense in which an entire living organism is an animate agent.
- It is this quality that makes Griffiths' poetry good - that touching distance between the animate and the inanimate, life and words, that can be breached by poetry.
- A successful actor-network brings together animate and inanimate objects and resources into a complex, everchanging resilient heterogeneous network.
- I am late coming to this understanding of the creative power of art to touch us in unexpected ways but so grateful to finally feel the beat of animate life in the inanimate object.
- Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri.
- Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord.
Synonyms
living, alive, live, breathing, sentient, conscious
1. 1.1 Lively and active; animated.
  party photos of animate socialites
  Example sentencesExamples
  So animate and lively in such strange ways, these people were definitely good people to hang out with.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin animat- ‘instilled with life’, from the verb animare, from anima ‘life, soul’.

单词	animate
释义	Definition of animate in English: animate verb ˈanɪmeɪtˈænəˌmeɪt [with object] 1Bring to life. Prometheus stole fire from heaven to animate his clay men Example sentencesExamples What is certain is that any such withdrawal would betray the religious concepts of the state which animate the faith-based initiative. What strange powers animate the ancient songs brought by the settlers of Founderston from their distant island home along with the bones of Lazarus? The power animating the universe, while destructive at times in the cyclical ebb and flow of time and space, is fundamentally grounded in balance. Theatre should be about ideas - animating them, making them live and be relevant to society. Considering the matter from the opposite point of view brings more clearly into focus the constellation of concerns that animates his thinking here. It throws light on a fantastic plan to animate the promenade of the resort by building a series of four giant follies. Yet it is more than just a skin, attested by the generous proportions of the apartments and the way in which light animates the interiors. But all are animated by color and line moving over them. The dead-end of Western policy towards Baghdad is also animating fears about what comes next. It is this Burkean notion of rhetoric which animates the spaces of everyday life. The exclamations seem to rumble up through McLeish's body as he delivers them, his feelings animating his frame. It is animated by light - direct sunlight creates a glow. But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media. By moving beyond the divisions that often segregate both people and art forms, Diakite eloquently demonstrates the interconnectedness that animates the universe. Tadao Ando's stark concrete walls, for instance, assume the remarkable potency of mass transformed by nature when animated by changing light. Life, comprised of a complex chain of bio-chemical and physiological processes is activated and animated by an invisible bio-magnetic force. I don't know if I buy the idea that this is actually what's animating their foreign policy, though I think the fundamental distinction is sound. She is represented here as a sleeping earth goddess, reference to broad ancient principles of respect for the environment and to Aboriginal stories that animates the landscape with the presence and deeds of ancestral figures. On this understanding, if the body shows signs of life, then there must be a soul which is animating it; if, at the other end of life, no vital signs can be detected, then ‘the soul has fled’. A similar theme animates Waiting for the Barbarians and The Life and Times of Michael K, the two strongest novels by 2003 Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. Synonyms operate, switch on, turn on, start, start off, start up, set going, get going, trigger off, trigger, trip, set in motion, actuate, initiate, initialize, energize 1.1 Give inspiration, encouragement, or renewed vigour to. she has animated the government with a sense of political direction Example sentencesExamples This book will animate, engage and stimulate babies and have nursery classes jumping about with noisy enthusiasm. Moving images and sound fill a room animating thought processes and daydreams. Brown may never return to the ideas that animated his initial intuition about Oakland as an ‘ecopolis of the future.’ The budget cuts, a lack of jobs, even a potential war are not animating today's youth. ‘Reform of the state should be the core animating idea of the progressive governance agenda this year,’ he writes. Sexual energy, whether male or female, is the electrical charge that animates life. His inspired perspective has animated prophets and artists and dreamers down through the centuries. Reflections of life often animate and inspire the enduring music we call 'classical’. Perhaps it is hardships and the thrill of risk that animate life most fully, and perhaps it is freedom that binds. We knew we had to bring the lifeline of communications to everyone, and this animated our entire response. Egalitarianism is the underlying value system that animates all of these groups - though they differ greatly among themselves in the policies and strategies they embrace to realize their values. As for personal picks, local choreographer Marie Chouinard, always a festival fave, animates her company both physically and vocally in her latest creation Chorale, which premiered in Italy earlier this year. Talk of renewing the armed struggle was a common theme that animated the narratives. The show's animating principle, that O'Briain wants to look back from his deathbed on a life well lived, is equally admirable. Metaphors animate and renew meanings; metaphysics supplies tools to think with. It is the breath of life and the inward light that animates the human body and inspires the human soul. In Paris and later, a strong sense of color continued to animate his work. The one-nation ideal, which animated our national struggle, is still there. It is this contrast between rich and poor - a contrast so visually obvious as to make the landscape of Caracas feel almost didactic - that animates Venezuelan politics. The subject of sport animated him, switched on the plug. Synonyms enliven, vitalize, give (new) life to, breathe (new) life into, energize, invigorate, revive, vivify, liven up, light up, cheer up, gladden encourage, hearten, inspire, exhilarate, thrill, excite, fire, arouse, rouse, stir, stimulate, galvanize, electrify informal buck up, pep up, give someone a buzz, ginger up North American informal light a fire under rare inspirit 2Give (a film or character) the appearance of movement using animation techniques. much-loved characters have been animated in this Franco-Canadian co-production Example sentencesExamples After years of easily passing $100 million at the box office, recent Disney animated films have struggled to hit that mark. In some ways Pocahontas is a natural extension of previous Disney animated films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. I liked Tarzan, but there hasn't been a truly great Disney animated film that didn't come from Pixar since The Lion King. He lent his voice talent to many animated characters, but this one is closest to his own spirit. The best animated character in the history of the genre is Daffy Duck. Most people know Disney's Snow White as the first animated feature film. Last year, Walt Disney Studios released what has been rumored to be one of its final traditionally animated feature-length films. All animated films may not be for children, but most are. The agreement begins in 2006 when Pixar will release its first animated feature film while not under the Disney umbrella. She is the lighting technical director of the film ‘Shrek’, which was hailed world over as the best animated feature film. Those who associate him only with animating dinosaurs and skeleton creatures would have been fascinated to see what made up the bulk of the program last night. Not that long ago, it was a painstaking task to mix animated characters with real ones. In the last ten years, the vast majority of Disney animated films have been soundtrack compilations with a story tacked on. Davis became one of many who would hide his comic book pages when a supervisor came by, and hurriedly return to animating Popeye cartoons. Over the past year, however, digitally animated films have begun to show an assembly line quality, and Valiant represents a new low. The film too often falls into the Sky Captain Syndrome: animated characters fighting other animated characters simply is not interesting. It should also be pointed out that the fact that DreamWorks' next four animated films will all be made digitally has nothing to do with the box office failure of Sinbad. A team of digital artists can spend months animating a character or creating a landscape. As long as future computer animated films maintain the same level of quality as that of the pioneers in the field, their ascendance can only be seen as a positive thing. Oskar Fischinger back in the Thirties was animating abstract visuals to music and projecting those. adjective ˈanɪmətˈænəmət Alive or having life. gods in a wide variety of forms, both animate and inanimate Example sentencesExamples A child uses many things when externalizing - both animate and inanimate objects are innocently used to promote and protect individual core identity. The animate and the inanimate, human and objects and finally cinema and painting had been exquisitely juxtaposed for superb equivocal effect. Singh manifests myriad hues creating a symbiosis between animate and inanimate objects. The truth of the matter is that we are very fragile, transient creatures, totally dependent on the complexity of those around us, human and non-human, animate and inanimate. I am late coming to this understanding of the creative power of art to touch us in unexpected ways but so grateful to finally feel the beat of animate life in the inanimate object. But equally essential to making sense of the chaos of the world and our place in it, is our ability to distinguish between objects and different kinds of things, so living or dead, animate or inanimate. Schopenhauer believes that the various species of animate and inanimate things in the world are eternal and static. The Tibetan medicine system believes that all phenomena (both animate and inanimate) are comprised of five fundamental elements. Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. We shifted our perspective, slowed ourselves down and began to notice the world as a living, breathing beauty, an animate environment of which we humans are a portion, but not its possessors. A successful actor-network brings together animate and inanimate objects and resources into a complex, everchanging resilient heterogeneous network. Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri. Explaining the logic of numerology, he says, everybody and everything, animate or inanimate, has vibrations. I can assume any form you please, animate or inanimate. It is this quality that makes Griffiths' poetry good - that touching distance between the animate and the inanimate, life and words, that can be breached by poetry. This is clear evidence that viruses are unlike any known living thing and are much more like inanimate than animate matter. The ‘agent’ in question is merely an organic part of A's body and so not a rational agent or even an ‘animate’ agent, in the sense in which an entire living organism is an animate agent. All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks. Zen also builds, however, on the East Asian, especially the Taoist, naturalist view that ultimate reality is manifested in each and every concrete phenomenon, including animate and inanimate beings. Despite this similarity, there are still elemental differences between being alive and deceased, and between the animate and inanimate. Synonyms living, alive, live, breathing, sentient, conscious organic archaic quick Origin Late Middle English: from Latin animat- 'instilled with life', from the verb animare, from anima 'life, soul'. Definition of animate in US English: animate verbˈænəˌmeɪtˈanəˌmāt [with object] 1Bring to life. the desert is like a line drawing waiting to be animated with color Example sentencesExamples It throws light on a fantastic plan to animate the promenade of the resort by building a series of four giant follies. It is this Burkean notion of rhetoric which animates the spaces of everyday life. Theatre should be about ideas - animating them, making them live and be relevant to society. What is certain is that any such withdrawal would betray the religious concepts of the state which animate the faith-based initiative. A similar theme animates Waiting for the Barbarians and The Life and Times of Michael K, the two strongest novels by 2003 Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. By moving beyond the divisions that often segregate both people and art forms, Diakite eloquently demonstrates the interconnectedness that animates the universe. The dead-end of Western policy towards Baghdad is also animating fears about what comes next. Tadao Ando's stark concrete walls, for instance, assume the remarkable potency of mass transformed by nature when animated by changing light. What strange powers animate the ancient songs brought by the settlers of Founderston from their distant island home along with the bones of Lazarus? Life, comprised of a complex chain of bio-chemical and physiological processes is activated and animated by an invisible bio-magnetic force. But all are animated by color and line moving over them. Yet it is more than just a skin, attested by the generous proportions of the apartments and the way in which light animates the interiors. It is animated by light - direct sunlight creates a glow. She is represented here as a sleeping earth goddess, reference to broad ancient principles of respect for the environment and to Aboriginal stories that animates the landscape with the presence and deeds of ancestral figures. The power animating the universe, while destructive at times in the cyclical ebb and flow of time and space, is fundamentally grounded in balance. On this understanding, if the body shows signs of life, then there must be a soul which is animating it; if, at the other end of life, no vital signs can be detected, then ‘the soul has fled’. But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media. Considering the matter from the opposite point of view brings more clearly into focus the constellation of concerns that animates his thinking here. The exclamations seem to rumble up through McLeish's body as he delivers them, his feelings animating his frame. I don't know if I buy the idea that this is actually what's animating their foreign policy, though I think the fundamental distinction is sound. Synonyms operate, switch on, turn on, start, start off, start up, set going, get going, trigger off, trigger, trip, set in motion, actuate, initiate, initialize, energize 1.1 Give inspiration, encouragement, or renewed vigor to. she has animated the nation with a sense of political direction Example sentencesExamples Perhaps it is hardships and the thrill of risk that animate life most fully, and perhaps it is freedom that binds. The show's animating principle, that O'Briain wants to look back from his deathbed on a life well lived, is equally admirable. We knew we had to bring the lifeline of communications to everyone, and this animated our entire response. This book will animate, engage and stimulate babies and have nursery classes jumping about with noisy enthusiasm. His inspired perspective has animated prophets and artists and dreamers down through the centuries. The budget cuts, a lack of jobs, even a potential war are not animating today's youth. Metaphors animate and renew meanings; metaphysics supplies tools to think with. Reflections of life often animate and inspire the enduring music we call 'classical’. Brown may never return to the ideas that animated his initial intuition about Oakland as an ‘ecopolis of the future.’ Moving images and sound fill a room animating thought processes and daydreams. The subject of sport animated him, switched on the plug. It is the breath of life and the inward light that animates the human body and inspires the human soul. As for personal picks, local choreographer Marie Chouinard, always a festival fave, animates her company both physically and vocally in her latest creation Chorale, which premiered in Italy earlier this year. Sexual energy, whether male or female, is the electrical charge that animates life. Talk of renewing the armed struggle was a common theme that animated the narratives. ‘Reform of the state should be the core animating idea of the progressive governance agenda this year,’ he writes. It is this contrast between rich and poor - a contrast so visually obvious as to make the landscape of Caracas feel almost didactic - that animates Venezuelan politics. In Paris and later, a strong sense of color continued to animate his work. Egalitarianism is the underlying value system that animates all of these groups - though they differ greatly among themselves in the policies and strategies they embrace to realize their values. The one-nation ideal, which animated our national struggle, is still there. Synonyms enliven, vitalize, give life to, give new life to, breathe life into, breathe new life into, energize, invigorate, revive, vivify, liven up, light up, cheer up, gladden 2usually be animatedGive (a movie or character) the appearance of movement using animation techniques. Example sentencesExamples Not that long ago, it was a painstaking task to mix animated characters with real ones. I liked Tarzan, but there hasn't been a truly great Disney animated film that didn't come from Pixar since The Lion King. Most people know Disney's Snow White as the first animated feature film. The agreement begins in 2006 when Pixar will release its first animated feature film while not under the Disney umbrella. All animated films may not be for children, but most are. The best animated character in the history of the genre is Daffy Duck. In the last ten years, the vast majority of Disney animated films have been soundtrack compilations with a story tacked on. He lent his voice talent to many animated characters, but this one is closest to his own spirit. Oskar Fischinger back in the Thirties was animating abstract visuals to music and projecting those. After years of easily passing $100 million at the box office, recent Disney animated films have struggled to hit that mark. As long as future computer animated films maintain the same level of quality as that of the pioneers in the field, their ascendance can only be seen as a positive thing. Over the past year, however, digitally animated films have begun to show an assembly line quality, and Valiant represents a new low. The film too often falls into the Sky Captain Syndrome: animated characters fighting other animated characters simply is not interesting. She is the lighting technical director of the film ‘Shrek’, which was hailed world over as the best animated feature film. In some ways Pocahontas is a natural extension of previous Disney animated films like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. It should also be pointed out that the fact that DreamWorks' next four animated films will all be made digitally has nothing to do with the box office failure of Sinbad. A team of digital artists can spend months animating a character or creating a landscape. Last year, Walt Disney Studios released what has been rumored to be one of its final traditionally animated feature-length films. Davis became one of many who would hide his comic book pages when a supervisor came by, and hurriedly return to animating Popeye cartoons. Those who associate him only with animating dinosaurs and skeleton creatures would have been fascinated to see what made up the bulk of the program last night. adjectiveˈanəmətˈænəmət 1Alive or having life. all of creation, animate and inanimate Example sentencesExamples This is clear evidence that viruses are unlike any known living thing and are much more like inanimate than animate matter. Singh manifests myriad hues creating a symbiosis between animate and inanimate objects. Despite this similarity, there are still elemental differences between being alive and deceased, and between the animate and inanimate. All of God's creation, animate and inanimate, reflected God's generosity toward his creatures and evoked an outpouring of praise and thanks. Zen also builds, however, on the East Asian, especially the Taoist, naturalist view that ultimate reality is manifested in each and every concrete phenomenon, including animate and inanimate beings. The truth of the matter is that we are very fragile, transient creatures, totally dependent on the complexity of those around us, human and non-human, animate and inanimate. Explaining the logic of numerology, he says, everybody and everything, animate or inanimate, has vibrations. We shifted our perspective, slowed ourselves down and began to notice the world as a living, breathing beauty, an animate environment of which we humans are a portion, but not its possessors. A child uses many things when externalizing - both animate and inanimate objects are innocently used to promote and protect individual core identity. I can assume any form you please, animate or inanimate. Schopenhauer believes that the various species of animate and inanimate things in the world are eternal and static. The animate and the inanimate, human and objects and finally cinema and painting had been exquisitely juxtaposed for superb equivocal effect. But equally essential to making sense of the chaos of the world and our place in it, is our ability to distinguish between objects and different kinds of things, so living or dead, animate or inanimate. The Tibetan medicine system believes that all phenomena (both animate and inanimate) are comprised of five fundamental elements. The ‘agent’ in question is merely an organic part of A's body and so not a rational agent or even an ‘animate’ agent, in the sense in which an entire living organism is an animate agent. It is this quality that makes Griffiths' poetry good - that touching distance between the animate and the inanimate, life and words, that can be breached by poetry. A successful actor-network brings together animate and inanimate objects and resources into a complex, everchanging resilient heterogeneous network. I am late coming to this understanding of the creative power of art to touch us in unexpected ways but so grateful to finally feel the beat of animate life in the inanimate object. Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri. Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. Synonyms living, alive, live, breathing, sentient, conscious 1.1 Lively and active; animated. party photos of animate socialites Example sentencesExamples So animate and lively in such strange ways, these people were definitely good people to hang out with. Origin Late Middle English: from Latin animat- ‘instilled with life’, from the verb animare, from anima ‘life, soul’.
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