Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To clarify or explain, as by the use of examples or comparisons.
- intransitive verb To serve as an example or clarification of.
- intransitive verb To provide (a text) with explanatory or decorative images.
- intransitive verb Obsolete To light up; illuminate.
- intransitive verb To present a clarification, example, or explanation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Famous; renowned; illustrious.
- To illuminate; make clear, bright, or luminous.
- To give honor or distinction to; make distinguished or illustrious; glorify.
- To make plain and conspicuous to the mind; display vividly; also, to make clear or intelligible; elucidate.
- To elucidate or ornament by means of pictures, drawings, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
- transitive verb To make clear, bright, or luminous.
- transitive verb To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.
- transitive verb To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.
- transitive verb To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.
- transitive verb obsolete To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To shed light upon; to
illuminate . - verb To
clarify something bygiving , orserving as, anexample or acomparison . - verb To
provide abook or otherpublication withpictures ,diagrams or otherexplanatory ordecorative features .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb depict with an illustration
- verb supply with illustrations
- verb clarify by giving an example of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word illustrate.
Examples
-
The book and its title illustrate both the ridiculous and pleasurable nature of words.
-
I look for synonyms, find none, but along the way I decide that "illustrate" is a better word than "way," and change that.
Random Items... Of Doom! rollick 2005
-
Here's a chart to illustrate from the Afghan NGO Safety Office, showing the level of insurgent-initiated violence:
Derrick Crowe: Afghanistan, Year Ten Derrick Crowe 2010
-
The model used to illustrate is the fish market scenario.
Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Reynolds Urges Federal Default 2010
-
As the quotes I provided from Dinstein illustrate, or should have illustrated, I also suspect that Israel acted lawfully in this particular case.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists” 2010
-
Here's a chart to illustrate from the Afghan NGO Safety Office, showing the level of insurgent-initiated violence:
Derrick Crowe: Afghanistan, Year Ten Derrick Crowe 2010
-
As the quotes I provided from Dinstein illustrate, or should have illustrated, I also suspect that Israel acted lawfully in this particular case.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity 2010
-
The point I was trying to illustrate is the difference between broadcasting a sporting event and reporting on it.
-
The terms illustrate YouTube's willingness to bend in wooing media companies.
-
There is an old story used to illustrate the meaning of the Yiddish word chutzpah (roughly translated as "nerve" or "gall"): A man kills his parents, and then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan.
Mitchell Bard: McCain's Claims of "Change" in His Acceptance Speech Are New Standard for Chutzpah 2008
BURAK commented on the word illustrate
izah etmek
August 25, 2010