Animation
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noun
- Comic strip
"… launched the 'toon in 1930, with Dagwood as a lazy rich playboy and flapper Blondie as one of his many girlfriends."
- Animated cartoon
"… its most recent live-action adaptation of one of its classic toons, earned a tidy $69 million in its first weekend in theaters, good enough for first place."
noun
- A southeast Asian and Australian tree (Toona ciliata synonym Cedrela toona) of the mahogany family with aromatic dark red to reddish-brown wood
noun
- The back half of a hindquarter of a meat animal
- One of the rather generalized segmental appendages of an arthropod used in walking and crawling
- A pole or bar serving as a support or prop
"the legs of a tripod"
- A branch of a forked or jointed object
"the legs of a compass"
- The part of an article of clothing that covers the leg
- The part of the upper (as of a boot) that extends above the ankle
- Obeisance, bow
- A side of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse
- The course and distance sailed by a boat on a single tack
- A portion of a trip stage
- One section of a relay race
- One of several events or games necessary to be won to decide a competition
"won the first two legs of horse racing's Triple Crown"
- A branch or part of an object or system
- Long-term appeal or interest
"a news story with legs"
noun phrase
- Something (such as a fact or issue) that is used as support or a reason for something said or done
"He used the incident as a peg to hang his theory on."
idiom
- A person who gives sympathy and support
"She's always been a sympathetic shoulder to cry on."
- Sympathy and support
"He offered me a shoulder to cry on when my husband left me."
idiom
- To have no support for what one thinks, says, or does
"He claims that the company cheated him, but without evidence of a written agreement, he doesn't have a leg to stand on."
idiom
- Used in an ironic way to introduce a very strong and usually critical statement
This clue was used on August 19, 2025.
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Clue “Animation” on December 25, 2024.
noun
- The quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
- A principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings
- An organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism see metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
- The sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual
"children … are the joy of our lives"
- One or more aspects of the process of living
"sex life of the frog"
- Biography
"the life of George Washington"
- Spiritual existence transcending see transcend physical death
"his craving … for the release into the life to come"
- The period from birth to death
- A specific phase of earthly existence
"adult life"
- The period from an event until death
"a judge appointed for life"
- A sentence of imprisonment for the remainder of a convict's life
- A way or manner of living
"the life of the colonists"
- Livelihood
"The fishing village drew its life from the sea."
- A vital or living being
- An animating and shaping force or principle
"the life of the constitution … has been not logic but experience"
- Spirit, animation
"saw no life in her dancing"
- The form or pattern of something existing in reality
"painted from life"
- The period of duration, usefulness, or popularity of something
"the expected life of the batteries"
- The period of existence (as of a subatomic particle) compare half-life
- A property (such as resilience see resilience or elasticity) of an inanimate see inanimate substance or object resembling the animate quality of a living being
- Living beings (as of a particular kind or environment)
"forest life"
- Human activities
- Animate activity and movement
"stirrings of life"
- The activities of a given sphere, area, or time
"the political life of the country"
- One providing interest and vigor
"life of the party"
- An opportunity for continued viability
"gave the patient a new life"
- God
- Something resembling animate life
"a grant saved the project's life"
adjective
- Of or relating to animate being
- Lifelong
"a life member"
- Using a living model
"a life class"
- Of, relating to, or provided by life insurance
"a life policy"
adjective
- Involving or culminating in life or death vitally important as if involving life or death
noun
- A life preserver in the form of a buoyant belt
- Safety belt
noun
- A ring-shaped life preserver
adjective
- Of, relating to, or being a residential complex for elderly people that provides an apartment, personal and social services, and health care for life
adjective
- Having or capable of having a significant impact on someone's life
"a life-changing career opportunity"
noun
- An advisor who helps people make decisions, set and reach goals, or deal with problems
noun
- The series of stages in form and functional activity through which an organism passes between successive recurrences of a specified primary stage
- Life history
- A series of stages through which something (such as an individual, culture, or manufactured product) passes during its lifetime
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