illustrate
English
Pronunciation
Verb
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- (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.
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- Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.
- To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
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- To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
- 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.
- We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.
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- To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
- The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
- (obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
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- Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates.
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Translations
to clarify
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to give as an example
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to add explanatory or decoratory features
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References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “illustrate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
Italian
Adjective
illustrate f pl
Verb
illustrate
- second-person plural present of illustrare
- second-person plural imperative of illustrare
- feminine plural past participle of illustrare
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) illūstrāte
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