2 meanings
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1 —as in:
as illustrated by this example
Definition
to help make clear — typically by example- Pictures of flooding help to illustrate the problem of global warming.
illustrate = make clear
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- This example will help illustrate my point
- This diagram illustrates the relationships I've mentioned.
- A pie chart showing expense by category would be illustrative.
- We all waited patiently for father's story to develop, because we knew he had a way of telling stories that very clearly illustrated the point he wanted to make.Rudolfo Anaya -- Bless Me, Ultima
- I always illustrate my lecture with a lot of technical examples.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate. I heard once of...Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- This sentence clearly illustrates that she's not exactly what you'd call modest!Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- As the circumstances of his marriage illustrate his character, I cannot refrain from relating them.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- ...and is whipped for being hard to please! I have an abundance of such illustrations of the same principle, drawn from my own observation, but think the cases I have cited sufficient.Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
illustrate = make clear
illustrates = helps make clear
illustrative = serving to help explain or demonstrate something
illustrated = helped make clear
illustrate = help make clear
illustrate = help make clear
illustrates = helps make clear
illustrate = help make clear
illustrations = stories to clarify or demonstrate
2 —as in:
an illustrated children's book
Definition
to draw pictures (or provide photographs) to accompany a book or other writing- I write and illustrate children's books.
illustrate = draw pictures to accompany
Other Uses (with this meaning)
- The directions to assemble it have accompanying illustrations that identify each part.
- The magazine is called "Sports Illustrated" because of the photos.
- Last night, for example, Margot was reading a book with beautiful illustrations; she got up and put the book aside for later.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- 'But I've lots of illustrated papers left.' He turned to the pile of papers in the corner and took up a heap six inches thick.Edith Nesbit -- The Railway Children
- He was also a good illustrator, and he drew the pictures for his own books.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- She used to be a children's-book illustrator.R.J. Palacio -- Wonder
- Many months later, he would also paint over the cover of that book and give it a new title, after one of the stories he would write and illustrate inside it.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- She was dressed to play golf, and I remember thinking she looked like a good illustration, her chin raised a little jauntily, her hair the color of an autumn leaf, her face the same brown tint as the fingerless glove on her knee.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
- Some of the potions had effects almost too gruesome to think about, and there were some very unpleasant illustrations, which included a man who seemed to have been turned inside out and a witch sprouting several extra pairs of arms out of her head.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
illustrations = drawings
illustrated = with pictures
illustrations = pictures
illustrated = with drawings
illustrator = someone who draws pictures
illustrator = someone who draws pictures to accompany a book or other writing
illustrate = draw pictures to accompany
illustration = drawing
illustrations = pictures