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# animation

«animation» in Mova's school dictionary: **A cartoon or film made by showing many drawings, models…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (animation — uncountable; an animation, animations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A cartoon or film made by showing many drawings, models or computer pictures one after another so they seem to move. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#m1)

2) The art or work of making such films. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#m2)

3) Liveliness and excitement in the way someone talks or moves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In art and computing lessons children make simple animations with flip books, Scratch or stop-motion clay figures. In everyday life, many films and TV shows are animations. In stories, someone speaking with animation is lively. Phrases: computer animation, stop-motion animation, suspended animation (a state like deep sleep).

### examples

- We made a stop-motion animation with plasticine figures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x1)
- Animation needs many pictures every second. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x2)
- My favourite animation is about a dragon who can't fly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x3)
- In Scratch, we coded an animation of a cat dancing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x4)
- She told the story with great animation, waving her arms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x5)
- A flip book is a simple kind of animation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/#x6)

### note

Uncountable for the art, countable for a single film. Verb: animate; a person who makes animations is an animator. Films often show 24 pictures (frames) per second.

### In the corpora

- [A flipbook shows how animation works: still pictures shown quickly look like movement.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/5/)
- [Toy Story, made by Pixar in 1995, was the first full-length film made entirely by computer animation.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/23-animation-flipbooks-stop-motion-computer-cartoons/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «animation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/animation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.