Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The technology employing electronics to animate motorized puppets.
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- noun A form of
robotics used to createrobots that producepreset moves andprerecorded sounds.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A folk usage of portmanteau refers to a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g. 'animatronics' from 'animation' and 'electronics').
Recent activities from Kevvy Kev at MySpace Kevvy Kev 2010
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Where people can learn about the American History while they interact with "animatronics" and other objects placed there.
LearnHub Activities 2009
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Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives is a riff on the "animatronics" of Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean.
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Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives is a riff on the "animatronics" of Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2008
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Artefacts compete for space and attention, with each other and with artificial creations, models and artistic impressions and fancy animatronics.
London's Natural History Museum relies too heavily on gimmicks | Martin Robbins 2011
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Lol, that was 1984, no cgi-all make up and, in this case, animatronics or puppetry.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Speaking of V. Old school, and just as weird as ever. 2009
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Gorgeous facilities with amazingly engaging displays and animatronics, and at least a few hundred cubic cubits of bad science and misinformation.
Boing Boing 2009
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But Leterrier tried to honor him by using makeup, prosthetics and animatronics as well as digital effects.
Movie preview 2010: Hollywood rolls out remakes and sequels 2010
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One time as I kid, I totally broke my local animatronics by shoving a mole back in its hole.
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"We had to put it together on the mountain in the middle of a national park, so you basically couldn't touch anything, and that was the most challenging thing on the movie," says special-effects and animatronics supervisor Neil Corbould.
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