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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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Joe Barbera, who died Monday in his Sherman Oaks home, was one those rare people whose life's work as an animator touched virtually every American alive today.
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00) provides new artwork to pair with animator and writer George Maestri's insights on the theory and basic techniques of rigging, walk-cycles, lip-synch and more: all the elements which bring an animation to life.
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