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illustrate English

Meaning illustrate meaning

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Definitions in simple English

illustrate Verb

— If you illustrate something, you draw a picture of it, or you explain it. "I'm sorry, can you explain again?" "OK, let me illustrate with an example." This graph illustrates the change in price. — If you illustrate a book, magazine, poster, etc., you put pictures in it. Have you tried reading these illustrated books for adults?

illustrate

— verb (= exemplify) clarify by giving an example of — verb depict with an illustration — verb supply with illustrations illustrate a book with drawings

Synonyms illustrate synonyms

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illustrate English » English

explain exemplify elucidate interpret show draw describe demonstrate clarify picture instance depict illuminate compare sketch represent prove portray paint justify give an example embellish diagram visualize visualise use a simile understand typify speak figuratively show up show forth show an example shoot scheme reveal refer reason quote qualify profile profession personify objectify nomograph nomogram mock mimic manifest limn liken

Topics illustrate topics

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Language and thought Communication Interpreting messages

Show, indicate
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers

Markers of identificational and explanatory clauses

Conjugation illustrate conjugation

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Examples illustrate examples

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Simple sentences

This diagram will illustrate what I mean.
The teacher will illustrate how to do it.
Everyone can feed the database to illustrate new vocabulary.
This dictionary has sentences that illustrate how to use each word.
I will give you a good example to illustrate what I mean.

Movie subtitles

I will now illustrate a trial for witchcraft from beginning to end taking place at the time when the Pope sent traveling inquisition priests out to Germany.
Maybe I could illustrate it better if I told you a story.
Just to illustrate.
Oh well allow me to illustrate Sir Charles.
These two methods, employed by the respective companies, really illustrate the essential strategic choice that faces.
Forget it, will you, Curly? I only brought it up to illustrate a point. I don't want your last dime.
I suggest that you ask Commander Owens to come up here right away and bring the photos he's using to illustrate his book.
It may illustrate some problems you will encounter.
Gary, please stand up and illustrate the theory.
There's no better pupil to illustrate form and technique than Holmes.
Illustrate your washing methods.
Um, perhaps I can illustrate my point.
Here, here, here. Let me illustrate.
I brought them up here to illustrate the point of conformity.
You may illustrate, Miss Smith.
I presume that story was intended to illustrate that blood is thicker than water.
Allow me to illustrate.
They can illustrate it with that picture I could not get out of the building.
If that story is supposed to illustrate what I think are your intentions, I must warn you. I'm in no mood to be soaked in disinfectant.
They've asked me to illustrate a book.
I think I can best illustrate my reasons for asking this by reminding you of a story I learned when I was a wee bit of a lad in London.
We have a picture of the cauldron to illustrate the legend of the sorcerers.
I only brought it up to illustrate a point.
I'll just illustrate to my colleagues your discovery.
Hon. Tritoni suggests we illustrate our political platform..
Illustrate the theory, will you?
To illustrate the sun-centered universe of Copernicus he built computers that reproduced the clockwork of the heavens from Mercury to Saturn.
We need a computer to illustrate the collective motion of so many stars each under the gravitational influence of all the others.
I'm gonna illustrate my lesson.
He asked me to illustrate his books.
I think we can illustrate that best with the specimen here that was preserved closed.

News and current affairs

As events in Pakistan illustrate, the spread of nuclear technology does not extend the stability that comes with mutual deterrence.
Now in its eighth year, the almost obscene economic growth in the United States could be used to illustrate the inverse proposition.
I give you this personal sketch because it is the best I can do to illustrate what care-giving entails, and why it is so crucial to everyone's life - and to the human condition more generally.
Cyber threats and potential cyber warfare illustrate the increased vulnerabilities and loss of control in modern societies.
Banks that grant risky loans on too little equity illustrate the analytical value of homo economicus particularly clearly.
Iran, Romania, and Liberia illustrate that rigid authoritarian systems cannot withstand the shocks of social, political, or economic change, especially at the pace that characterizes today's world.
These three sets of events, different as they are, together illustrate several deep-seated characteristics of social life in France.
These facts illustrate better than anything the need for security partnerships that extend to Central Asia and across the Mediterranean.
Two examples suffice to illustrate the impact: the price of rice has tripled while consumption of electricity is down by two-thirds from two decades ago.
The countries that have been severely affected by the financial crisis illustrate the impact of reform.
To illustrate, here are three start-ups that take the concept to individuals or small businesses; call it peer-to-peer timesharing.
Young Muslim women in Europe illustrate this transformation perfectly.
Teachers (including those in mathematics) should meet regularly to plot the evolution of their courses, their essential coherence, and the inclusion of stories that illustrate how science works.
Three recent examples illustrate what went wrong with America, its loss of unique status, and its growing image as a partisan and unethical, if not destabilizing, force in the world.
But it does illustrate how rapidly in early twenty-first-century Europe democracy has been undermined through the endless application of the economics of austerity, and by the failure of political leadership at home and abroad.
But in China, the brand has unwittingly found itself enmeshed in tales that illustrate the powerlessness of ordinary Chinese against the powerful and corrupt.
Such examples illustrate the possible dramatic side-effects of DBS, but subtler effects are also possible.
Nevertheless, the 1937 episode does seem to illustrate the dangers of attempting to consolidate public finances at a time when the private sector is still too weak for economic recovery to be self-sustaining.
Indeed, the CIO would illustrate the power of information's power by using it, rather than legal power, to persuade people to do the right thing.
To illustrate his argument, Benedict noted that the international financial crash, partly a consequence of insatiable greed, had provoked debate about the need for an ethical basis for economic behavior.
NEW DELHI - Three recent events vividly illustrate the dilemmas of today's Pakistan, which are in many ways the same challenges faced by the country's founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, over six decades ago.
A personal anecdote serves to illustrate how the market, as much as government censorship by the Department of Propaganda and the Press and Publications Administration, is often responsible for this type of editorial decision.

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