illustrate
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[edit] English
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[edit] Verb
illustrate (third-person singular simple present illustrates, present participle illustrating, simple past and past participle illustrated)
- (obsolete) To shed light upon; to illuminate.
- Were the Moon smooth, as a looking glass, a very small part would be seen by any particular eye to be illustrated by the Sun.
- To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
- We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.
- To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
- The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
[edit] Translations
to clarify
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to add explanatory or decoratory features
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[edit] References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
illustrate pl.
- feminine form of illustrato
[edit] Verb
illustrate
- second-person plural present tense of illustrare
- second-person plural imperative of illustrare
- feminine plural past participle of illustrare
[edit] Latin
[edit] Participle
illūstrāte
- vocative masculine singular of illūstrātus
