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- иллюстрировать, снабжать рисунками, картами, диаграммами и т. п.
- пояснять (наглядным примером и т. п.)

to illustrate smth. by quotations — иллюстрировать что-л. цитатами 
to illustrate the advantages of smth. — показать преимущества чего-л. 

Мои примеры

Let me give an example to illustrate the point. 

Позвольте мне привести пример, чтобы проиллюстрировать этот момент.

Each verb in this dictionary is illustrated with a sentence. 

Каждый глагол в этом словаре иллюстрируется предложением, в котором он употребляется.

The students will write and illustrate their own stories. 

Студенты будут писать и иллюстрировать свои собственные истории.

The foregoing examples illustrate this point. 

Вышеупомянутые примеры служат иллюстрацией этого момента.

Please give a few examples to illustrate your point. 

Приведите, пожалуйста, несколько примеров, чтобы проиллюстрировать свою точку зрения.

She illustrated her discussion with diagrams. 

Она проиллюстрировала своё пояснение диаграммами.

Some simple examples will illustrate the point. 

Этот момент проиллюстрируют несколько простых примеров.

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If I could just take one example to illustrate this.  

This illustrates a fundamental weakness in the system.  

She showed us several graphs to illustrate the point she was making.  

Для того чтобы добавить вариант перевода, кликните по иконке ☰, напротив примера.

transitive verb

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Merriam-Webster unabridged

• depict.
• exhibit.
• explain.
• illuminate.
• mirror.
• portray.
• represent.
• typify.

What is the adjective for illustrate?

? Middle School Level. adjective. serving to illustrate; explanatory: illustrative examples.

Does illustrate mean draw?

Illustrate is defined as to make clear or to tell a story using drawings, pictures, examples or comparisons. An example of illustrate is to give an example. An example of illustrate is someone drawing pictures for a children’s book. verb. 20.

How do you illustrate a word?

Illustrated words can be very simple. For example, to illustrate the word red, you could letter the word in red pencil, ink, or paint. To make the word sell look as if it’s selling, you could change the letter “s” into a dollar sign, like this: $ell.

Is illustrate the same as draw?

The difference between drawing and illustration is that drawing is a technique of self-expression while illustration is a professional work for commercial purposes. … An illustration is a technique used by writers, poets, and publishers to poetry their act.

How do you use illustrate?

Illustrate sentence example

What are synonyms for illustrate?

In this page you can discover 46 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for illustrate, like: elucidate, demonstrate, portray, paint, explain, epitomize, represent, highlight, picture, exemplify and sketch.

What is an example of illustration?

The definition of an illustration is a picture or a drawing or the act of creating the drawing, or is an example used to explain or prove something. An example of an illustration is a picture accompanying a magazine article. … A picture, design, diagram, etc.

How do you illustrate a story?

How to tell a story with your illustrations

What does illustration mean in a book?

Do Illustrators have to be good at drawing?

If you want to become a good illustrator, one skill above all will be required – the ability to draw proficiently. … So, your hand-drawing skills will be the essential in every illustrative work your will take on. Drawing tools can be taken away; however, your drawing skills are for life.

What is the best software for illustration?

Digital Illustration Software: The Top 10 in 2021

Where is illustrations in word?

The first step to inserting pictures or drawings in Word is accessing the Illustrations icon group in the ribbon menu. As shown in Fig 4-1 above, the Illustrations icon group can be accessed by clicking on the INSERT tab just above the icons on the ribbon menu.

What is the root word of illustration?

The word illustration is derived from the Latin “illustratus”, which translates to “make bright”.

How do you use illustrations in writing?

What does beautifully illustrated mean?

adjective. (of a book, text, etc) decorated with or making use of pictures. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout. a beautifully illustrated prayer book. lavishly illustrated with colour photographs.

Is Elucidative a word?

Serving to explain: exegetic, explanative, explanatory, explicative, expositive, expository, hermeneutic, hermeneutical, illustrative, interpretative, interpretive.

What is the noun for illustrate?

/ˌɪləˈstreɪʃn/ 1[countable] a drawing or picture in a book, magazine, etc., especially one that explains something 50 full-color illustrations.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

Present

I illustrate

you illustrate

he/she/it illustrates

we illustrate

you illustrate

they illustrate

Present continuous

I am illustrating

you are illustrating

he/she/it is illustrating

we are illustrating

you are illustrating

they are illustrating

Present perfect

I have illustrated

you have illustrated

he/she/it has illustrated

we have illustrated

you have illustrated

they have illustrated

Present perfect continuous

I have been illustrating

you have been illustrating

he/she/it has been illustrating

we have been illustrating

you have been illustrating

they have been illustrating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

Past

I illustrated

you illustrated

he/she/it illustrated

we illustrated

you illustrated

they illustrated

Past continuous

I was illustrating

you were illustrating

he/she/it was illustrating

we were illustrating

you were illustrating

they were illustrating

Past perfect

I had illustrated

you had illustrated

he/she/it had illustrated

we had illustrated

you had illustrated

they had illustrated

Past perfect continuous

I had been illustrating

you had been illustrating

he/she/it had been illustrating

we had been illustrating

you had been illustrating

they had been illustrating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

Future

I will illustrate

you will illustrate

he/she/it will illustrate

we will illustrate

you will illustrate

they will illustrate

Future continuous

I will be illustrating

you will be illustrating

he/she/it will be illustrating

we will be illustrating

you will be illustrating

they will be illustrating

Future perfect

I will have illustrated

you will have illustrated

he/she/it will have illustrated

we will have illustrated

you will have illustrated

they will have illustrated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been illustrating

you will have been illustrating

he/she/it will have been illustrating

we will have been illustrating

you will have been illustrating

they will have been illustrating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

Conditional

I would illustrate

you would illustrate

he/she/it would illustrate

we would illustrate

you would illustrate

they would illustrate

Conditional continuous

I would be illustrating

you would be illustrating

he/she/it would be illustrating

we would be illustrating

you would be illustrating

they would be illustrating

Conditional perfect

I would have illustrate

you would have illustrate

he/she/it would have illustrate

we would have illustrate

you would have illustrate

they would have illustrate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been illustrating

you would have been illustrating

he/she/it would have been illustrating

we would have been illustrating

you would have been illustrating

they would have been illustrating

Conditional or «future-in-the-past» tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

Imperative

you illustrate
we let´s illustrate
you illustrate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

Past participle

illustrated

Present Participle

illustrating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

The translations of illustrate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «illustrate» in English.

The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «illustrate» in the different countries.

List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «illustrate».

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «illustrate» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «illustrate» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

Since I’m so slow, I have to be fairly choosy about the projects I take on, and it can’t be something that I’m only ‘sort of’ into. I knew that ‘The Stand’ would be an amazing challenge every month that would be a blast to illustrate.

Who doesn’t want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I’ve been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.

I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.

For some time it’s been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate.

I walked out of Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln’ having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event.

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How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper

This second edition of How to Write and Illustrate a Scientific Paper will help both first-time writers and more experienced authors, in all biological and medical disciplines, to present their results effectively.

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How to Illustrate and Design Concept Cars

Posters of cars still adorn many a child’s bedroom wall, and school exercise books are full of doodles of cars. This book takes those notebook sketches and teaches you how to develop them into the car designs you see in magazines.

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How to Write and Illustrate Children’s Books and Get Them …

Explores the art of storytelling and the basics of writing for children, including classic fiction, contemporary themes, picture books, book production, fads, nonfiction, and careers as a children’s writer or illustrator.

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The Where, the Why, and the How: 75 Artists Illustrate …

Featuring work by such contemporary luminaries as Lisa Congdon, Jen Corace, Neil Farber, Susie Ghahremani, Jeremyville, and many more, this is a work of scientific and artistic exploration to pique the interest of both the intellectually …

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The Spelling Teacher’s Book of Lists: Words to Illustrate …

This revised collection focuses on patterns and facts that teachers can use to help students become better spellers. This comprehensive guide includes additions to previous lists, and new lists that deal with various aspects of etymology.

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Writing with pictures: how to write and illustrate …

The works of such renowned illustrators as Beatrix Potter, William Steig, and Maurice Sendak are used to demonstrate a visual approach to storytelling. 10 color and 600 b&w illustrations.

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Show Me How to Illustrate Evangelistic Sermons

A one-of-a-kind tool that teaches the art of making apt illustrations in evangelism

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Some Observations Tending to Illustrate the Book of Job, and …

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A series of prints designed to illustrate the Ancient history

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Stories and Parables to Illustrate Gospel Truths

1920. A gathering of stories and parables from what Stuart had heard, read or saw, which he thought would help to illustrate and make attractive and effective the gospel truth.

Artists use their creations to illustrate climate change — Fairbanks …

Two artists are joining forces at The Folk School, 2861 Beverly Lane, to talk about art as a way to illustrate climate change. Peter Handler … «Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Jul 15»

Malaria Genomes Illustrate Differences, Selection Pressure Even in …

Malaria Genomes Illustrate Differences, Selection Pressure Even in Closely Related Strains. Jul 16, 2015. |. a GenomeWeb staff reporter. NEW YORK … «GenomeWeb, Jul 15»

andy van dinh + katie scott illustrate the NIKE AIR MAX 95 as …

this year marks the 20th anniversary of the NIKE AIR MAX 95 shoe, designed by sergio lozano. as part of this celebration, NIKE has launched … «Designboom, Jul 15»

Casillas Xavi and Gerrard illustrate death of one-club man — ESPN FC

ESPN FC’s Craig Burley reviews some of the notable one-club players and explains why he believes they may soon be a thing of the past. «ESPN FC, Jul 15»

Photographers are even using lego figurines to illustrate Greece’s …

News agency photographers get creative with figurines, fire and abstract ideas in the ongoing work to provide illustrations for the world’s media. «The Globe and Mail, Jul 15»

Nixon and Obama health care similarities illustrate party differences

The authors illustrate that had Nixon’s proposals gone through, more people would have had insurance coverage than the number currently … «Medical News Today, Jul 15»

World Cup purchases illustrate a growing trend: mobile buying

The E-Edition includes all of the news, comics, classifieds and advertisements of the newspaper. And it’s available to subscribers before 6 a.m. … «Columbus Dispatch, Jul 15»

West Milford mothers team up to write and illustrate new children’s …

«Mommy Fix It Up» is a new children’s picture book, written by Mary L. Moore and illustrated by Cheryl Crouthamel, both West Milford residents. «NorthJersey.com, Jul 15»

North Dakota students illustrate children’s mystery book

MANDAN, N.D. — A group of North Dakota students have illustrated a new children’s mystery book written by a local author. Penny Wolf, a … «The Olympian, Jul 15»

2 Crazy Incidents Illustrate Broadway Menace: Phones

(Newser) – Cell phones in theaters: After two high-profile incidents on Broadway, things seem to have reached a «tipping point,» observes … «Newser, Jul 15»

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