Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The act of clarifying or explaining.
- n. The state of being clarified or explained.
- n. Material used to clarify or explain. See Synonyms at example.
- n. Visual matter used to clarify or decorate a text.
- n. Obsolete Illumination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
- n. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
- n. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
- n. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
- n. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of illustrating, or of rendering clear or obvious; explanation; elucidation; exemplification.
- n. The state of being illustrated or illumined.
- n. That which illustrates. Specifically
- n. A pictorial representation, map, etc., placed in a book or other publication to elucidate the text.
- n. Illustriousness; distinction.
- n. In music, same as development
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
- n. an item of information that is typical of a class or group
- n. a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand
- n. showing by example
Etymologies
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Examples
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For example the term illustration can mean many different things to different people, and have many different costs depending of what's being requested.
The Marketing Mix | official blog of the Marketing Mentor community
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** I don't claim that the illustration is a perfect likeness (it's remarkably hard to draw someone from memory more than a decade after the fact), but I do hope it catches something of his hunched pathetitude.
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The period chosen for my illustration is the moment when the last shell fired from the fleet bursts over the battery; and the troops, illumined by the glare, are seen rushing to the parapet to repel the assault.
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Paul earned his BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Another inspired illustrator, one that jumped from the pulps to pretty much every kind of illustration, is was the legendary Wally Wood.
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My favorite illustration is in chapter 13, when Peter eats stew at Leo's house.
Kate DiCamillo discusses The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
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An illustration is the tradeoff in refinancing a home mortgage.
Milton Friedman on Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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I offer the picture partly in illustration of what I said yesterday, that the Princess sweeps forward and can carry mistakes along with her.
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` Your illustration is most unfortunate, 'Ernest replied.
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Small wonder then that many talented individuals leave the medium to find a career in illustration, animation, sales, or hell, anything that paid better than comics.
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