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animate

In grammar, referring to characteristics of living things. The principal parts of speech can all be animate: baby, mouse, and flea are animate nouns; cry, speak, and hope are animate verbs; friendly, stupid, and toothless are animate adjectives.

Animate words can be used metaphorically in inanimate contexts; for example, toothless in a phrase such as ‘a toothless argument’.



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Computer animators find hair tricky to portray realistically because it contains so many strands and because these strands respond in complex ways to light, wind, head motion, and each other.
Hairy calculations: picturing tresses in a truer light by Weiss, P. / Science News
but within the sketch-lined halls of Walt Disney Feature Animation, teams of animators are more inclined to believe ``the sky is the limit.
BIRDS OF A FEATHER DISNEY FOLLOWS PIXAR IN THE ANIMATION REVOLUTION by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
AGE: 39 TITLE: Animator director/supervisor COMPANY: ESC Entertainment DUTIES: Scheduling production of shots, overseeing budgets, and hiring and directing animators SALARY: $40,000-$150,000
Animated tale: graphic artist brings characters to life. (Career At A ... by Donaldson, Sonya A. / Black Enterprise
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