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A single item of information that is representative of a type
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illustration
Alternative clues for the word illustration
- What Tenniel added to "Alices Adventures in Wonderland"
- Tenniel's "Alice in Wonderland" contribution
- Showing by example
- A visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand
- Inside fancy restaurant, for example
- Artwork elucidating a text
- I'll ruin toast? Bad example!
Word definitions for illustration in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. artwork that helps make something clear or attractive showing by example [syn: exemplification ] an item of information that is representative of a type; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" [syn: ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove ...
Usage examples of illustration.
Arriving in New York, she had gone with Alger Kates and Nina Boone to the BPR New York office, where Kates had gone into the statistical section, and she and Nina had helped department heads to collect props to be used as illustrations of points in the speech.
But, this begs the question how many men in Istanbul can truly appreciate the magnificence of my illustrations?
In adopting this illustration of his principle, Chaitanya followed the example of the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagavat Pura.
Toledo Cervantes finds an Arabic manuscript by Cid Hamete Benengeli, Arabic Historian, which he got translated and which includes an illustration of the battle with the Biscayan, the Don with raised sword, that is full of details of the appearance of the Don and Sancho and Rocinante.
He is apt at illustration and application, and has a fine memory, stored brimfull of entertaining anecdotes, snatches of poetry, and those thousand nothings which tell for so much in society, and which it is so pleasant to find combined with much else that is valuable.
Illustration of Cellarway Leading into Partially Underground Apartment.
Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations.
Decline of letters 344 Epic poetry--Lucan 344 Silius Italicus 344 Claudian 345 Persius, Juvenal 345 Martial 346 History--Velleius Paterculus 346 Valerius Maximus 346 Tacitus 347 Quintus Curtius 347 Rhetoric--Seneca the elder 348 Quintilian 348 Appuleius 349 Philosophy--Seneca 349 The elder Pliny 349 His nephew 350 Grammarians--Macrobius 350 Marcellinus 350 Legal writers--Gains 350 Science and art 351 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Much of the taste for beauty is inherent in the Celtic races, and this element is very perceptible in the poetry of the Cymric branch, as will appear from the illustrations contained in the second part of this collection.
Czech for newts was published, complete with illustrations of Czechoslovak handwriting styles.
Here again we have an illustration of an incident - of dubious authenticity - demonstrating to the public the utter, utter unspeakable evilness of drugs and those who use them.
An illustration of what can be done in this direction is furnished by the Elmira Reformatory, where the experiment is being made with most encouraging results, which, of course, would be still better if the indeterminate sentence were brought to its aid.
The accompanying illustration exhibits a typical case verified by postmortem examination.
Simply for the vain repetition of clap-trap experiments, by way of illustrations of lectures for first-year students!
Especially should a careful distinction be drawn between original investigations made in private and experiments made before students or by students themselves, solely for the illustration of well-known facts.