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“illustrate”
illustrate (verb), illustrates; illustrated; illustrating
1. To shed light upon or to brighten up: Jane said she will try to illustrate what she means by the objectives of the committee when she talks with the whole group.
2. To clarify something by giving examples or making comparisons so as to clearly show or to explain: Dr. Johnson used several examples to illustrate his point in the physics lecture.
3. To provide explanatory or decorative pictures to accompany a printed, a spoken, or an electronic text: After graduating from Art College, Joyce got a job illustrating children's books.
4. Etymology: from Latin in-, "throughly" + lustrare, "to illuminate"; from Latin lumen, "light".
2. To clarify something by giving examples or making comparisons so as to clearly show or to explain: Dr. Johnson used several examples to illustrate his point in the physics lecture.
3. To provide explanatory or decorative pictures to accompany a printed, a spoken, or an electronic text: After graduating from Art College, Joyce got a job illustrating children's books.
4. Etymology: from Latin in-, "throughly" + lustrare, "to illuminate"; from Latin lumen, "light".
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(Modern Latin: named for the mythical king Tantalus [who in the Greek myths was tortured by being placed in water up to his chin, which he was never able to drink, whence the word “tantalize”]; because of the element’s insolubility or “to illustrate the tantalizing work he had until he succeeded in isolating this element”; metal)