encourage

The Latin word animāre came to our language as encourage. The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) recognizes, in its dictionary, a dozen meanings of the concept.

The first meanings mentioned by the RAE allude to give encouragement or energy to someone. For instance: "Pedro is depressed, but I think Javier's visit will cheer him up", "I ask the fans of the club to come to the stadium to cheer on the team", "We are going to encourage Liliana who is quite distressed by the lack of work".

Cheering a team is about cheering it on.

The importance of support

Encouraging a person who is going through a bad time implies accompany her and perform Actions that they allow feeling better. Although what to do depends on the context and on each case, many times animate consists of proposing activities that are fun or that serve as distraction or entertainment.

Suppose a young woman is sad because she separated from her boyfriend. Her friends, in this context, want to encourage her: that is why they invite her to go to the cinema and then they go to a bar. As can be seen, the exit points to the girl to stop thinking about her sentimental situation, at least for a while. On the other hand, this accompaniment is a way of making her feel that she is not alone.

Encourage how to incite another or determine

A similar use of animate refers to incite an individual to do something: "I'm going to encourage my grandfather to go back to school". In this case, a subject comments that he will be in charge of talking with his grandfather to encourage him to return to study.

The cheer up, on the other hand, it can be given to oneself to decide to do a certain action: "I never thought that he would encourage me to confess my love to him", "Someday I'm going to dare to parachute", "I am not going to dare to quit my job because I need the money, so I will try to solve things in some way".

There are multiple techniques that allow animating drawings and thus generate a sensation of movement.

Produce a sensation of movement

In the field of cinema and of the TV, animate supposes generate a sense of movement in drawings, photographs or other inanimate elements. To meet this objective, we resort to optical illusions.

There are multiple resources, techniques and technologies that serve to animate. Traditional cartoons, to mention one possibility, are carried out by drawing each frame one by one, then photographed, and finally the photos are placed in sequence. In this way, the viewer perceives movement.

At present, however, it is usual to appeal to the digital animation. To animate the images, use a computer (computer) equipped with certain computer programs.

Animate a place

Finally, the idea of ​​animating can make mention of give life to a place or a meeting. It is about generating the appropriate conditions so that, symbolically, there is movement or Energy.

If, at a party, the attendees are getting bored, someone can change the music or propose a game to liven up the evening. In fact, the one whose work is based on getting people to have fun on birthdays and other social events is known as animator.