Definition of Animate

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Animate

To give natural life to; to make alive; to quicken; as, the soul animates the body.

To give powers to, or to heighten the powers or effect of; as, to animate a lyre.

To give spirit or vigor to; to stimulate or incite; to inspirit; to rouse; to enliven.

Endowed with life; alive; living; animated; lively.

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Animate Quotations

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Orison Swett Marden

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.
James Taylor

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
Amos Bronson Alcott

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
Armstrong Williams

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.
George Henry Lewes

It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
Dan Castellaneta

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.
Marc Davis

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
Dick Morris

Throughout my career, when I was finished with the drawing for one film I would go up to the story department and help develop sequences. Sometimes these were for scenes that I would animate later on.
Marc Davis

Animate Translations

animate in Dutch is bezielen, verlevendigen
animate in French is vivifier, animer, animez, animent, animons
animate in Italian is animare
animate in Spanish is calentar
animate in Swedish is animera

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