Used in a Sentence

animate

How to use animate in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for animate.

Editorial note

I know it's not an animate object, but it helps me to think of it as so. I won't let "it" consume me, "it" win.

Examples11
Definitions7
Parts of speech2

Quick take

heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of animate gathered in one view.

verb

heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

verb

give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons"

verb

make lively; "let's liven up this room a bit"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for animate.

verb

give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons"

adjective

belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings; "the word `dog' is animate"

adjective

endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life; "we are animate beings"

adjective

endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence

Example sentences

1

I know it's not an animate object, but it helps me to think of it as so. I won't let "it" consume me, "it" win.

2

On the iPad, you now have two view controllers that need to stay in sync, animate in sync, etc.

3

I set this at 20 seconds for all but the 'seconds' digits, which animate continually.

4

That's just the animation -- the gif is constructed to animate displaying each block.

5

The scoreboard buttons are stacked on top of each other, and unchecking them causes them to animate their height down to zero.

6

But do there exist web browsers that display these scroll-to-animate sites correctly?

7

IOS does not provide a standard API to drag between views, so I had to implement my own which is fully animated and interactive.

8

\nTo clarify: when continual animation is off, each digit only animates for a specified amount of time.

9

A lot of CSS transforms and animations are hardware accelerated and/or just animate more fluidly than they would if they were animated via javascript.

10

I was curious if now, 5 years later, if the latest Android phone still is unable to scroll smoothly and animate smoothly between apps, at 60 fps, with no lag, and respond instantaneously to touches.

11

Jacques de Vaucanson, the great artificer of the period, was concerned to understand the animate systems he was modeling; he constructed mechanical devices in order to formulate and validate theories of his animate models, not to satisfy some performance criterion.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use animate in a sentence?

I know it's not an animate object, but it helps me to think of it as so. I won't let "it" consume me, "it" win.

What does animate mean?

heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

What part of speech is animate?

animate is commonly used as verb, adjective.