Definition of Illustrate

Illustrate

To make clear, bright, or luminous.

To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.

To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.

To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.

To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.

Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.

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Illustrate Quotations

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
David Ogilvy

The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Lewis Mumford

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
Gregory Bateson

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
Louis Leakey

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
Louis Leakey

Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.
Ben Jonson

I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
Mark Haddon

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.
Robert Burton

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
Edward Sapir

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
John Pomfret

To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
Florenz Ziegfeld

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
Thomas Perry

To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.
Nelson A. Miles

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
Hugh Lofting

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Illustrate Translations

illustrate in Dutch is veraanschouwelijken, illustreren
illustrate in Finnish is kuvittaa
illustrate in French is illustrez, illustrent, illustrer, illustrons
illustrate in German is veranschaulichen, veranschaulichen, illustriere
illustrate in Norwegian is illustrere, belyse
illustrate in Portuguese is ilustre
illustrate in Spanish is ilustrar
illustrate in Swedish is belysa, visa, illustrera

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