Illustrate

Definition: Illustrate

Illustrate

Verb

1. Clarify by giving an example of.

2. Depict with an illustration.

3. E.g., illustrate a book with drawings.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "illustrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Illustrate

Conformity

Exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance; Noun: elucidate, explain.

Interpretation

Illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate; popularize; (render intelligible).

Ornament

Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.

Representation

Dress up; illustrate, symbolize.

Crosswords: Illustrate

To illustrate. (VeggieTales: King George and the Ducky; writing credit: Daniel Reitz)

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Books

• You Can Illustrate: Jack and the Beanstalk (You Can Illustrate) (reference)

• Aeroflot: An Airline and Its Aircraft an Illustrate History of the World's Largest Airline (reference)

• How to Write & Illustrate Childrens Books and Get Them Published (reference)

• How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books (reference)

• Living Legacies: How to Write, Illustrate, and Share Your Life Stories (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Leggi Illustrate (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

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"Tetrahedron" by Владимир Смирнов (Vladimir Smirnov). These platonic solids illustrate a clever use of the absolute value function.

The shaded variations in the water illustrate the patch reefs common at Mona Island. The breaking waves show the beginning of the main reef framework. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The first in a series of three images that illustrate the process of collecting donor eelgrass plants for transplant. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The second in a series of three images that illustrate the process of collecting donor eelgrass plants for transplant. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The third in a series of three images that illustrate the process of collecting donor eelgrass plants for transplant. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Mark Fonseca demonstrates the transplant process to reporters in the first of a series of images that illustrate the underwater process from a beach off Prudence Island, RI. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A now uncommon and romantic building type, the Beebe Windmill provided mechanization to the grinding of grain. This rare survivor teaches us about the evolution of industrial technologies and the ingenuity of early American craftsman who fashioned the moving parts out of the most readily available material at hand, wood. HABS and HAER documentation provides information for the care and maintenance of structures for which the original drawings typically do not survive. The formats of HAER documentation for this windmill include a written history, photographs, and measured drawings. The selected drawings and photographs shown here demonstrate how the nformation in each format can supplement the other. The photographs record information as the camera sees it in a one-point perspective. The drawings illustrate the grain mill and clarify how its parts fit together, what dimensions they are, and how they interact to grind the grain. West elevation. Photograph by Jet Lowe, 1978. (Reproduction Number: HAER, NY,52-BRIG,4-1). Credit: Library of Congress.

Measured drawing delineated by Timothy A. Buehner, Isabel C. Yang, Hugh D. Hughes, 1989-92. (Reproduction Number: HABS, VA,2-CHAR.V,1- Sheet 21 of 32) President Thomas Jefferson designed his home, Monticello, as a sophisticated and innovative structure that could serve as a model of architecture for his fellow countrymen. Constructed between 1768 and 1809, Monticello has become known as one of the greatest works of western architecture, being designated as a World Heritage Site in 1987. Much has been written about Jefferson's passion for architecture and the antecedents for his designs. Floor plans and photographs of the house have been widely published, but it was not until the HABS section drawings were produced that one could illustrate how the geometrically complex spaces integrated vertically. Credit: Library of Congress.

Chernavinskii Prospekt (now Lenin Street), Kuzmin Building (1890s), illustrate the development of Omsk as a major Siberian business center before World War I, Omsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.

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There are many other parts of the constitution which serve to illustrate this subject. (reference)

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But let me illustrate the two fallacies

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Health

To illustrate what is meant by normal growth control, consider the outermost layer of the skin. The thin outer layer of normal skin, called the epidermis, is roughly a dozen cells thick. (references)

The complex actions of nitric oxide illustrate how the interactions between oxidants and biological systems influence how toxic the oxidants' effects can be. These results focus attention on harmful chemical agents that elude antioxidant defenses and attack critical cell molecules. (references)

Business

The power system on Cheju Island is now connected to the mainland (Haenam) via a transmission system of a 101km-long submarine cable of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) which was completed in 1998. This system could illustrate a good example in the next generation of electric power T&D business in Korea such as the linking of South and North Korea and other third countries. (references)

Economic History

Canada

The growing retail sales revenues illustrate the positive correlation between the purchase of sporting goods and the robust strength of the Canadian economy. (references)

Women

Barbados

Few statistics are available to illustrate the magnitude of the problem; according the Nation newspaper, there was an increase in spousal abuse during the year. (references)

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Albanian

ilustroj (document, figure, limn), sqaroj (clarify, dissolve, elucidate, enlighten, enucleate, explain, gloss, illuminate, sharpen, straighten, straighten out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فسر (account for, clarify, clear, clear up, construe, elucidate, explain, explicate, expound, interpret, make clear), ‏مثل (act, adage, aphorism, appear, as, be a symbol for, be typical of, byword, case, depict, describe, example, exemplify, gnome, illustration, instance, like, like this, maxim, perform, play, play act, portray, proverb, represent, saying, sculpt, show, stand before, stand for, such, such as, symbolize, typify), ‏وضح (accentuate, clarify, clear up, define, elucidate, explain, illuminate, light, lighten, puzzle out, ravel out, represent, spell, state), ‏زين يزخرف (adorn, balance, garnish), ‏زود بالرسوم, ‏زخرف (adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, flourish, garnish, grace, illuminate, lard, ornament, ornamentation, string, trace, trick, trick out, trick up, trim), ‏أعطى مثلا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

онагледявам (visualize), правя блестящ, правя прочут, пояснявам (explain), илюстрирам (exemplify, limn). (various references)

Chinese 

说明 (Caption, Explanatory, illustrated, Illustrating, illustrative), 圖解說明 . (various references)

Czech

ilustrovat (exemplify). (various references)

Danish

for at belyse udskillelsen af begge nitrider,blev der anvendt kulstoffrit jern med kvaelstof i oploesning (iron with nitrogen in solution but free from carbon was used, to illustrate the precipitation of both nitrides). (various references)

Dutch

illustreren. (various references)

Esperanto

ilustri. (various references)

Faeroese

prýða við myndum. (various references)

Farsi 

مزین شدن , مصورکردن , نشان دادن (Actuate, Ante, Demonstrate, Display, Evince, Exert, Index, Indicate, Introduce, Point, Register, Run, Show), توضیح دادن (Clarify, Clear, Elucidate, Explain, State), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Habit, Line, Perk, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Tidy, Trim), شرح دادن (Demonstrate, Depict, Describe, Detail, Explain, Give, Narrate, Relate), بامثال روشن ساختن . (various references)

Finnish

kuvittaa. (various references)

French

illustrer. (various references)

German

veranschaulichen (demonstrate, exemplify, point up), illustrieren (pictorials), illustriere. (various references)

Greek 

εικονογραφώ, επεξηγώ (amplify), διευκρινίζω (clarify, elucidate, exemplify, make a point). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעטר (crown, decorate, embellish, illuminate, ornament, trim), לאיר, להדגים (demonstrate, exemplify, illusory, lead, represent), להבהיר (brighten, clarify, elucidate, explain oneself, render), להסביר (account for, brighten, explain, interpret, make clear, spell out). (various references)

Hungarian

illusztrál, szemléltet (exemplify, to demonstrate, to exemplify), ábrázol (depict, image, limn, portray, represent, to delineate, to depict, to illustrate, to limn, to picture, to plot, to portray, to represent, to typify, to write down). (various references)

Indonesian

menjelaskan (illustrative, punctuate), menghiasi (adorn, embellish, emblazon), menggambar (draw). (various references)

Italian

illustrare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

譬える (to compare, to illustrate, to liken, to speak figuratively, to use a simile), 本に画を入れる (to illustrate a book with pictures), 例える (to compare, to illustrate, to liken, to speak figuratively, to use a simile), 喩える (to compare, to illustrate, to liken, to speak figuratively, to use a simile). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たとえる (to compare, to illustrate, to liken, to speak figuratively, to use a simile), ほんにえをいれる (to illustrate a book with pictures). (various references)

Korean 

설명하십시요 (Elucidate, Explain). (various references)

Manx

soilshaghey (advertisement, characterize, declaration, demonstrate, describe, exhibit, explain, illuminate, illumination, interpret, interpretation, irradiate, irradiation, light, lighten, manifest, manifestation, notify, publication, publish, represent, show, show forth), jeshaghey lesh caslyssagh. (various references)

Norwegian

illustrere, belyse. (various references)

Papiamen

ilustrá. (various references)

Pig Latin

illustrateay.(various references)

Portuguese

ilustrar (illuminate, instance, limn). (various references)

Romanian

ilustra (exemplify), lãmuri (clear, clinch, define, disembroil, disentangle, elucidate, enlighten, explain, illuminate, illumine, justify, lighten, riddle, show, solve, understand, unravel, untie), exemplifica (exemplify). (various references)

Romansch

illustrar (to illustrate). (various references)

Russian 

пояснять (exemplify), иллюстрировать иллюстрация, иллюстрировать. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ilustrovati. (various references)

Spanish

ilustrar (exemplify, explain, improve, instruct). (various references)

Swedish

illustrera (figure, picturize), belysa (elucidate, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, light, light up, lighten). (various references)

Turkish

tanımlamak (be descriptive of, characterize, define, describe, designate, diagnose, portray, qualify), resimlemek, örneklerle açıklamak, örneklemek (exemplify, sample). (various references)

Ukrainian

ілюструвати малюнками, пояснювати (account, account for, analogize, attribute, authorize, clear, comment, construe, elucidate, explain, rationalize, show, translate). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "illustrate": illustrated, illustrates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Illustrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: illastrate, illestrate, illistrate, illustra, illustrare, illustrat, ilustrate, ilustre. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: literatus, tailleurs.

-2 letters: altruist, literals, lustrate, sluttier, tailleur, talliers, tertials, titulars, tutelars, ultraist, uralites.

-3 letters: allures, artiest, artiste, attires, estrual, iratest, laurels, literal, litters, littler, littles, lustier, lustral, rallies, ratites, rattles, realist, retails, rillets, rituals, ruliest, rutiles, sallier, saltier, saltire, saluter, situate, slatier, slitter, starlet, starlit, startle, stature, stellar, stiller, striate, tailers, tailles.

+1 letter: illustrated, illustrates.

+2 letters: illustrative, metallurgist, ratatouilles, tranquillest, ultraleftism, ultraleftist, ultrarealist, ultraviolets.

+3 letters: metallurgists, multispectral, ultraleftisms, ultraleftists, ultrarealists.

+4 letters: illustratively, instrumentally, tranquillities, ultrafiltrates, ultrarealistic.

+5 letters: multilateralism, multilateralist, multipolarities, streptobacillus, transilluminate, ultravirilities.