animated cartoon

[an-uh-mey-tid kahr-toon]

noun

1. a movie or television show, usually intended for children, created from static drawings, models, or objects posed in a series of incremental movements that are then rapidly sequenced to give the illusion of lifelike motion.

animated cartoon

noun

1. a film produced by photographing a series of gradually changing drawings, etc, which give the illusion of movement when the series is projected rapidly

Word History and Origins

Origin of animated cartoon¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

The strip became hugely successful and the characters were used for animated cartoons and films, and have been translated into nine languages, the publisher said.

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He then took shape as an animated cartoon and a puppet on television, happily explaining why the public should trust generics.

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Sitting beside a bouquet of flowers, the two protesters have posted videos on YouTube in which they call themselves Pinky and Brain, taken from an animated cartoon about lab rats in the late 1990s.

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"The dean of animated cartoons realizes that a happy personnel turns out the best work."

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That is to say animated cartoons, which are utterly timeless.

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