Animate



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 活的, 有生命的; v.赋予生命

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Etymology: Middle English, from Latin animatus, past participle of animare to give life to, from anima breath, soul; akin to Old English ōthian to breathe, Latin animus spirit, Greek anemos wind, Sanskrit aniti he breathes
• Date: 15th century
• 1. possessing or characterized by life ; alive
• 2. full of life ; animated
• 3. of or relating to animal life as opposed to plant life
• 4. referring to a living thing an animate noun
• • animately adverb
• • animateness noun

II. transitive verb (-mated; -mating)

• Date: 15th century
• 1. to give spirit and support to ; encourage
• 2.
  • a. to give life to
  • b. to give vigor and zest to
• 3. to move to action a criminal animated by greed
• 4.
  • a. to make or design in such a way as to create apparently spontaneous lifelike movement animate a cartoon
  • b. to produce in the form of an animated cartoon animate a story
• Synonyms: see quicken

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