animate : Idioms & Phrases


animate being

  • noun a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
    brute; beast; animal; fauna; creature.
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animate thing

  • noun a living (or once living) entity
    living thing.
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animated cartoon

  • noun a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
    toon; cartoon.
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animated oat

  • noun Mediterranean oat held to be progenitor of modern cultivated oat
    wild red oat; Avene sterilis.
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