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illustrate

[il-uh-streyt, ih-luhs-treyt]

verb (used with object)

to furnish (a book, magazine, etc.) with drawings, pictures, or other artwork intended for explanation, elucidation, or adornment.

to make clear or intelligible, as by examples or analogies; exemplify.

Archaic. to enlighten.

verb (used without object)

to clarify one's words, writings, etc., with examples: To prevent misunderstandings, let me illustrate.

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Origin:
1520–30; < Latin illustrātus past participle of illustrāre to illuminate, make clear, give glory to. See il-¹, luster¹, -ate¹

Related forms

il·lus·trat·a·ble, adjective

o·ver·il·lus·trate, verb (used with object), -trat·ed, -trat·ing.

pre·il·lus·trate, verb (used with object), -trat·ed, -trat·ing.

re·il·lus·trate, verb (used with object), -trat·ed, -trat·ing.

su·per·il·lus·trate, verb (used with object), -trat·ed, -trat·ing.

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Example Sentences

Markets may not follow predictable, cyclical patterns, but the photographs chosen to illustrate market trends sure do.

Waugh, a professor of public administration, uses a different catastrophe to illustrate the delicate.

The game is obviously intended to illustrate the problems a central bank faces.

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Markets may not follow predictable, cyclical patterns, but the photographs chosen to illustrate market trends sure do.

Waugh, a professor of public administration, uses a different catastrophe to illustrate the delicate.

The game is obviously intended to illustrate the problems a central bank faces.

Give students blank world outline maps and ask them to illustrate the maps with things they have learned about the polar regions.

But they illustrate internal motivation that could confound some ideas in economics.

As a group, these selections visually illustrate the artists' enunciations of their diverse and complex experiences.

After marrying, he continued to write humor and illustrate.

They will choose which stories to tell to illustrate their points.

But he also uses it to illustrate how the vividness of memory is itself a wondrous thing.

As an option, have students include drawings or diagrams to help illustrate what they are saying.

But the effort paid off with two animated movies that dramatically illustrate the effects of a cometary collision.

Each year, she edits thousands of images to select the visuals that illustrate the magazine.

It needs to illustrate that the screen is a game-changer.

Formo illustrate how the job ad can help in the job search.

They illustrate the importance of a robust civil society for post-disaster recovery.

Have students illustrate their predictions about what may happen to their local watershed in the future.

Experiments with actual groups illustrate the point.

To illustrate the point, she issued little paper nut cups containing six samples of chicken broth.

Many diagrams and photographs illustrate specific tasks or functions.

Equally as important is for candidates to illustrate an international perspective.

Overblown these fears may be, but they do illustrate an important truth.

Gather magazines, books, and travel brochures which illustrate places all around the world.

To illustrate this pathology, the authors describe several case studies.

The contributors' own educational backgrounds illustrate the problem.

She captured the image as the cell crept into a pore on a laboratory filter to illustrate how cancer cells move.

The fictionalized personal profiles given above illustrate this point.

Two meetings this week illustrate this worrying development.

They illustrate the awesome seismic forces at work deep below the surface of this island nation.

Hundreds of hyperlinked pages and images illustrate the traits and general biology of these groups.

Perhaps shooting stars, to illustrate economic growth.

They should then draw lines of different colors between the species to illustrate connections.

Some recent human adaptations with known genetic histories nicely illustrate this principle.

The best way to illustrate the insanity is to compare the public and private sectors.

Alternately, have them illustrate these concepts directly on their maps.

Equally important, it also served to illustrate that the effect of staring-eyes carries across a range of social behaviors.

Narrative, description and quotation illustrate a universal tendency to overfish and destroy.

Simple programs can illustrate how evolution works: the environment selects and reproduction amplifies.

It needs to stimulate the mind and illustrate the relevance and beauty of the subject.

Readers submitted photographs that illustrate the theme of women's empowerment.

The following story should illustrate the difference.

To illustrate this he takes the reader on a journey through more than two centuries of monetary and fiscal policy and banking.

Researchers illustrate a delicate method that could boost research into.

Recent studies illustrate which traits humans and apes have in common-and which they don't.

All of which helps to illustrate how society was transformed.

Artists rarely get the freedom to illustrate an advertising campaign without specific requirements.

Graphical depictions of your work that illustrate what you've done.

The following statistics illustrate the enormous toll in human suffering caused by adolescent risk taking:.

The compact plastic and rubber tubing illustrate the intrinsic paradox of this field:.

Junior winter coats now in the stores illustrate this point.

It features this flat, among others, to illustrate points of design.

The government-approved textbooks they will study illustrate the problem.

Ask your students to illustrate a tiger habitat for a zoo.

Not only do such specimens illustrate how all those bones went together, but sometimes.

Mathematicians have also used it to illustrate concepts of chance.

These questions illustrate the latest pieces of puzzlement in a field long plagued by the confusion of who sold what.

Halverson offers statistics that illustrate how much humans are still involved in the spread of rainbow trout:.

But the way he acquired his new job may illustrate rivalries within the emirate's ruling family.

Historical notes illustrate the rich history of the region.

These far-reaching effects illustrate the profound impact air pollution can have on the land.

Shattuck's argument, or sometimes even to see in what way particular works illustrate his point.

Another way to illustrate management of your project is with an organizational chart, showing who reports to whom.

Let me quickly illustrate some of the links between food and water.

SpaceX released a video animation of its proposed reusable rocket and space capsule system to illustrate how it would work.

The family's experience was used to illustrate the extent of the problem caused by the malware.

To illustrate how a newspaper is made, we've broken down the process into steps.

His accounts illustrate the point that a conventional approach often leaves doctors stumbling blindly in the dark.

For one project, girls write a haiku and then create a video to illustrate the poem.

Pages of text are pasted together to form mural-size grids, and then the group attaches images that illustrate the book.

They can quickly illustrate grand historical trends in concept development.

We had missed the parable that this was meant to illustrate but the service sheet said something about learning to dare.

They illustrate and label the life cycle, and then research and take notes on.

They illustrate that in a cosmic context a star accreted into a black hole does indeed cease to physically exist.

He's almost a witness-one trying to explain and illustrate both his ordinariness and his uniqueness.

Corn fritters are a little more work, but illustrate that you can deep-fat fry in the microwave oven.

Some of my presentations include short video clips to illustrate key points.

The author comes across as charming and charismatic, and he tells witty anecdotes, even if many illustrate the same points.

The drawing should illustrate the creatures' adaptations and names.

And organs in normal and pathological states will illustrate disease processes.

The waves in the cloud image above illustrate what happens when two flows right next to each other travel at different speeds.

Downes's column illustrate the varied, troubling issues that many service members struggle with, even decades after war.

Simplesimon and thundering_ illustrate the annoying arrogance larryc alludes to.

With a touch and a swirl, the wall can illustrate how voting in certain districts might affect the outcome of an entire state.

Have students draw pictures to illustrate the things they have discussed in their paragraphs.

In fairness, the initiative does seem to clearly illustrate the point paywall critics have been making in the abstract.

In any event, little could illustrate more his spinelessness.

Then have each group illustrate the lyrics to its verse on a piece of construction paper.

To illustrate the acronym switch, the blog posted a picture of a bowl of miso soup.

Two recent examples of how computers have been used to prove important mathematical results illustrate how the field is changing.

They should also include maps and other images to illustrate their findings.

These last two columns show the kind of inconsequential jabber that illustrate your decline.

But the methodology can also work to illustrate some of the principles about music writing and production.

They can illustrate their sentences with pictures of the mummies.

The images at the right illustrate the normal density of axons in a young individual.

One of the employees suggested a campaign that would involve hiring models to illustrate how a product was used.

We stop in a lighted area and he drags his finger through the pink dust on the dashboard to illustrate their mining technique.

Browse more than a dozen images that illustrate the evolution of dogs.

He picked up photography a decade ago to better illustrate his technical presentations, and.

The life-forms on these pages illustrate realistic adaptations to an environment.

He spends his professional life looking for objects that illustrate some aspect of scientific and technological.

Broad cites an example of this from his research to illustrate his point:.

They illustrate perfectly the power and resilience of the city as brain trust.

Now let's have a metaphor to better illustrate the inequality.

Occam's razor illustrate the brevity and elegance of scientific truth.

But in a few nutshells, visa services also illustrate some of the big issues about technology and government.

The pictures should illustrate activities they would do in both areas.

To illustrate this situation, consider a bottleneck where three lanes drop to two.

Certainly there have been more than enough precedents to illustrate something so obvious.

Have students sketch two maps that illustrate their own perceptions of what cities and suburbs are like.

Ask them to illustrate their timelines with sketches of the vehicles and descriptions of their capabilities and limitations.

The accompanying slides illustrate several works of art in which objects that are perfectly still appear to move.

They should also reference a few key visuals that help illustrate their reports.

Her batiks show the islands' majesty and illustrate the science behind their formation.

In any case, your example serves to illustrate the fact that the stronger force determines the motion.

Your reward will be powerful photos that clearly illustrate the story of your adventures.

The point of my original post was not so much to persuade, but to illustrate how un-persuasive some denier arguments can be.

The two ventures illustrate the companies' opposing views of the future of commercial aviation, experts say.

They should describe and illustrate the events as scientists would.

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World English Dictionary

illustrate (ˈɪləˌstreɪt)

—vb
1.	to clarify or explain by use of examples, analogy, etc
2.	(tr) to be an example or demonstration of
3.	(tr) to explain or decorate (a book, text, etc) with pictures
4.	(tr) an archaic word for enlighten

[C16: from Latin illustrāre to make light, explain, from lustrāre to purify, brighten; see lustrum]

'illustratable

—*adj*

'illustrative

—*adj*

'illustratively

—*adv*

'illustrator

—n

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