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History and Usage: Also very new and still rare, this sense of
animalist is a British usage which promises to give rise to some
considerable confusion by creating a situation in which the noun
animalist and its corresponding adjective carry almost opposite
meanings. Ultimately one or other sense must surely survive at
the expense of the other--if indeed either catches on.
Animal rights campaigners on Merseyside are urging
parents and teachers to stop children using 'animalist'
expressions, which they claim demean certain creatures.
Daily Telegraph 27 Oct. 1989, p. 5
animatronics
noun (Lifestyle and Leisure) (Science and Technology)
The technique of constructing robots which look like animals,
people, etc. and which are programmed to perform lifelike
movements to the accompaniment of a pre-recorded soundtrack.
Etymology: Formed by combining the first three syllables of
animated with the last two of electronics to make a blend.
History and Usage: The idea of animatronics (which originally
had the even more complicated name audio-animatronics, now a
trade mark) was developed by Walt Disney during the sixties for
use at the World's Fair and later for Disneyland and other theme
parks. The movements and gestures of the robots (each of which
may be called an animatron or an animatronic) are extremely
lifelike, but because they are pre-programmed they cannot be
responsive or interactive: for this reason, animatronics has
been described as being 'like television with the screen
removed'. During the eighties, animatronics became more widely
known as the theme park idea and the robotics technology were
exported from the US to other parts of the world. Although it
looks plural in form, animatronics always takes a singular
agreement when it refers to the technique; plural agreement
indicates that it is being used for a group of the robots
themselves. The adjective used to describe the technology or the
robots is animatronic.
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