illustrate
part of speech
verb (illustrate, illustrates, illustrated, illustrating)
meaning for a pupil
1) To draw or add pictures to a book, article or story. tree →
2) To explain or show something by using examples, diagrams or pictures. tree →
3) To be an example that shows something is true. tree →
sense in the lessons
In English and art lessons pupils illustrate their stories. In maths and science they illustrate an answer with a diagram or graph. In formal writing: «This graph illustrates the rise in temperature.» Phrases: illustrate with, illustrated book, to illustrate the point.
examples
- Translatus et notis illustrates, a Joanne Stephano Rittangelio, ling. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- 16) Judah Halevi in his book entitled "Kusari," p. 456, illustrates it thus: The Creator is one, and the space has in the figurative expression six dimensions. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) tree →
- The Notes have been extended, and it is hoped that they explain and illustrate difficult passages, and render this abstruse treatise more comprehensible than it has been hitherto found. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- Illustrate your story with a picture. tree →
- This book was illustrated by a famous artist. tree →
- Use a bar chart to illustrate your results. tree →
- Let me illustrate with an example. tree →
- The broken vase illustrates why we don't play ball inside. tree →
- Draw a diagram to illustrate the water cycle. tree →
- The pictures illustrate each step of the recipe. tree →
- The following story will signally illustrate how ready she was to resent any slight offered to her. tree →
note
Regular verb. Person: illustrator; noun: illustration. Stress on the first syllable in the UK («ILL-us-trate»). In maths, «illustrate» asks you to show working with a drawing, not only words.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «illustrate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.