ANIMATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animation mean? 

• ANIMATION (noun)
  The noun ANIMATION has 6 senses:

1. the condition of living or the state of being alive

2. the property of being able to survive and grow

3. quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

4. the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something

5. the making of animated cartoons

6. general activity and motion

  Familiarity information: ANIMATION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The condition of living or the state of being alive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

aliveness; animation; life; living

Context example:

life depends on many chemical and physical processes

Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)

Attribute:

alive; live (possessing life)

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animation"):

eternal life; life eternal (life without beginning or end)

skin (a person's skin regarded as their life)

endurance; survival (a state of surviving; remaining alive)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being able to survive and grow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

animation; vitality

Context example:

the vitality of a seed

Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):

aliveness; animateness; liveness (the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life)

Attribute:

alive; live (possessing life)

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

animation; brio; invigoration; spiritedness; vivification

Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):

activeness; activity (the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically)

Attribute:

spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)

spiritless (lacking ardor or vigor or energy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animation"):

chirpiness (cheerful and lively)

life; liveliness; spirit; sprightliness (animation and energy in action or expression)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The activity of giving vitality and vigour to something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

animation; invigoration; vivification

Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):

activating; activation; energizing (the activity of causing to have energy and be active)

Sense 5

Meaning:

The making of animated cartoons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):

cinematography; filming; motion-picture photography (the act of making a film)

Sense 6

Meaning:

General activity and motion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

animation; liveliness

Hypernyms ("animation" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

 Context examples 

Materials, frequently computer applications, that combine some or all of text, sound, graphics, animation, and video into integrated packages.

(Multimedia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A computer-controlled presentation of some combination of audio, video, animation, graphics, still photo, and/or text where users can control the presentation and often interact with it.

(Multimedia, NCI Thesaurus)

It was now a real animation; and she began to dress for it with much of the happy flutter which belongs to a ball.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“Contrary ways, please God!” cried Peggotty, with great animation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We accordingly brought him back to the deck and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy and forcing him to swallow a small quantity.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Computer methods for creating images, diagrams or animations.

(Graphics Visualization, NCI Thesaurus)

Again Sam vanished; and mystery, animation, expectation rose to full flow once more.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The interruption had been short, though severe, and ease and animation returned to most of those they left as the door shut them out, but not to Anne.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

For the analysis, a three-dimensional optical motion capture system was used, similar to those used in animation films and video games.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

Then he began to chat of all things except ourselves and diseases and with such an infinite geniality that I could see poor Lucy's pretense of animation merge into reality.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)