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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
illuminate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
light illuminates sthformal (= makes it bright or able to be seen)
▪ The light from the screen illuminated the people gathered round it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
▪ They would also illuminate any steps.
▪ Study of these meditations therefore also illuminates aspects of the inner journey which all the medieval mystics take for granted.
▪ The Aceh deal should also illuminate the murky political scene in the Indonesiancapital.
■ NOUN
area
▪ As well as illuminating a relatively unexplored area, the research should be useful to educationalists and others working with Hindu children.
▪ She said she came to help illuminate the area with her headlights.
▪ More field work studies of systems analysts and how they relate to managers should illuminate this little known area of managerial work.
▪ But he hopes that scans should illuminate the precise areas of any deficits.
▪ More flares had joined the others, illuminating the area like some fiery aquatic tattoo.
face
▪ Nell's lamp softly illuminated their faces as they held a council of war.
▪ The light coming up from the freeway illuminated his face in a peculiar way.
light
▪ Jimmy was temporarily blinded by the orange light which suddenly illuminated the car windscreen.
▪ There are a number of ways in which one may use the individual pinpoints of light to illuminate the territory between them.
▪ Then a rectangle of brighter light illuminates the dusty ruched curtains as they glide towards the ceiling.
▪ But almost instantly the battery-powered emergency light came on, illuminating the nightmare scene with an eerie blue radiance.
▪ Beyond the doorway the dim light flared suddenly, illuminating the fleeing rats with an unearthly orange glow.
▪ Other areas are a blaze of colour as spot lights illuminate a vast choice of customer designs displayed on wall units.
▪ The shop lights illuminated them as though they were valuable items on display in a museum.
▪ A reset button is also provided, which is pressed if the charging light fails to illuminate.
nature
▪ We aim to illuminate the nature of their dilemmas and to show how they affect the bargaining relationships with foreign investors.
scene
▪ The Aceh deal should also illuminate the murky political scene in the Indonesiancapital.
▪ But almost instantly the battery-powered emergency light came on, illuminating the nightmare scene with an eerie blue radiance.
▪ The light from the hall illuminated the scene.
▪ Ambulances stood next to fire trucks, which illuminated the scene.
▪ A bare bulb illuminates the scene.
▪ There was some moon which would illuminate the scene suddenly, then be gone as though switched off by the scudding cloud.
▪ This was a most impressive end to the pursuit, with all the flashing blue lights illuminating the scene.
way
▪ Even the hardened expert will find something which illuminates in an original way some concept he has long taken for granted.
▪ Among psychologists, Erik Erikson and Bruno Bettelheim looked at narratives in illuminating ways.
▪ The lamp outside the turkey-house was still burning to illuminate their way along the front drive and into the yard.
▪ The stars illuminated their way through the village to the shopkeeper's house.
▪ It will be useful in conclusion to look at some incidents which illuminate the way in which symbolism operates in the religion.
■ VERB
help
▪ We hope it will help to illuminate the problems the designer faces in trying to promote such changes by introducing new material.
▪ But can they help to illuminate the question of what is on the move?
▪ Despite this difference, the plot of 587 does help illuminate the crisis of two years before.
▪ We can, how-ever, develop an album of sketches of a landscape that would help to illuminate the terrain.
▪ A brief résumé of the order of events helps to illuminate the course of the arguments about them.
▪ She said she came to help illuminate the area with her headlights.
▪ It's the clash or conflict of views that helps to illuminate the question. 4.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
illuminated manuscript/book
▪ An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
▪ Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
▪ His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
▪ It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
▪ She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
▪ The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
▪ The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A small path was illuminated by low orange lamps concealed in the flower beds.
▪ Newly discovered artifacts may help illuminate the culture of the Aztecs.
▪ Small lights illuminate different points on the map.
▪ The blazing fire illuminated the china ornaments above the hearth.
▪ The room was illuminated by candles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Annotated, logged and indexed, his book scarcely illuminated Belushi's demons, or the system that supposedly destroyed him.
▪ But their worry is focused like a hot, illuminating light in the right ways.
▪ Down below, he could see the single torch beam which illuminated Devlin, the girl and Gilbert.
▪ The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference, rather than the similarity, between her situation and mine.
▪ There are a number of ways in which one may use the individual pinpoints of light to illuminate the territory between them.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illuminate

Illuminate \Il*lu"mi*nate\, v. i. To light up in token or rejoicing.

Illuminate

Illuminate \Il*lu"mi*nate\, a. [L. illuminatus, p. p.] Enlightened.
--Bp. Hall.

Illuminate

Illuminate \Il*lu"mi*nate\, n. One who is enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.

Illuminate

Illuminate \Il*lu"mi*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Illuminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Illuminating.] [L. illuminatus, p. p. of illuminare; pref. il- in + luminare to enlighten, fr. lumen light. See Luminous, and cf. Illume, Illumine, Enlimn, Limn.]

  1. To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.

  2. To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.

  3. To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.

  4. To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
illuminate

c.1500, "to light up, shine on," a back-formation from illumination, or else from Latin illuminatus, past participle of illuminare (see illumination). Earlier was enlumyen (late 14c.) "decorate written material with gold, silver, bright colors," from Old French enluminer, from Late Latin inluminare; also illumine (late 14c.). Related: Illuminated; illuminating.

Wiktionary
illuminate

  1. (context obsolete English) enlightened n. Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To shine light on something. 2 (context transitive English) To decorate something with lights. 3 (context transitive English) To clarify or make something understandable. 4 (context transitive English) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs. 5 (context transitive figurative English) To make spectacular.

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WordNet
illuminate

  1. v. make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit" [syn: light, illume, illumine, light up]

  2. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, elucidate]

  3. add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)

Wikipedia
Illuminate (David Crowder Band album)

Illuminate is the second studio album and fourth album overall by David Crowder Band recorded for sixstepsrecords, released in September 2003.

Illuminate

Illuminate may refer to:

  • Illuminate (band), a German gothic music bandv
  • Illuminate (Joe Morris album), 1995
  • Illuminate (David Crowder Band album), 2003
  • Illuminate (Destine album), 2012
  • Illuminate (Lydia album), 2008
  • Illuminate (Karmacoda album), 2007 album by Karmacoda
  • Illuminate... (The Hits and More), 2013 album by 911
  • Illuminate, an EP by Qntal, 2004
  • Illuminate Labs, a Swedish software company
Illuminate (band)

Illuminate is a German Gothic music band from Karlsruhe formed in 1993 by Johannes Berthold.

Illuminate (Destine album)

Illuminate is the second album by the Dutch rock band Destine. It was released March 30, 2012, and the same date on iTunes. Three of the songs were released before the album as singles ( Stay, Thousand Miles and Night Skies) and music video of Stay and Thousand Miles is available on YouTube.

Illuminate (Joe Morris album)

Illuminate is an album by a quartet co-led by jazz guitarist Joe Morris and alto saxophonist Rob Brown, which was recorded in 1993 and released on Leo Lab, a sublabel of Leo Records. Rehearsing and recording this album was the first time the quartet worked together as a band, although Morris played with Brown before on Youniverse and the trio without Morris recorded High Wire.

Illuminate (2009)

Illuminate is an E.P. by English Progressive Metal band Suns of the Tundra (previously Peach). It was released in 2009.

Illuminate (Shawn Mendes album)

Illuminate is the second studio album by Canadian singer Shawn Mendes, and will be released on September 23, 2016 by Island Records.

Usage examples of "illuminate".

When her lumane illuminated what she had stumbled over, she gave a little cry.

He forcibly turned his attention to the brilliantly illuminated wall of lights, cut crystal, stained aerogel, mirrors, and high-tech circuitry which constituted the bar.

Ryder played the spotlight along the bank, hoping to intimidate the Ansar marksmen or, at least, to illuminate them so that his own crew could return fire more accurately.

The flowing gown she wore, draped around her shoulders and left arm, presented a study in contrast, as the light from various areas around the statue and its pedestal helped illuminate the statue against the dark background.

Burning avgas illuminated the southern slope of the hill like noonday.

On Thursday evening there was to be a dance at Curlew, the country home of the Peytons, and Jenny Blair had been invited to spend the night with Bena and watch the illuminated fountain from the upstairs porch of the nursery.

Their lower halves were brightly illuminated for hours, and yet did not bend in the least towards the light, though this is the part which under ordinary circumstances bends the most.

The only vessels we sighted were neutral fishing boats fully illuminated.

He pressed the switch on the handle of the lamp-light and a powerful white beam illuminated the back of the Cagliari pits.

A film of reflected street-lighting shimmered over the whole scene, closing the eyes of modern Cairenes to the wonder of the stars but at the same time creating the hallucination of a fairyland illuminated in greens and reds and blues and sulphurous yellows.

From the remote islands of the Indian Ocean a large provision of camphire had been imported, which is employed with a mixture of wax to illuminate the palaces of the East.

The lights along Western Avenue illuminated the speeding cars, moving together towards their celebration of wounds.

With a circle of light illuminating the floor about them, they walked to its centermost part.

Computers spooled tape and illuminated buttons flashed in sequence, though what that signified Charlton had no idea.

When he reached the shack -- merely a one-roomed hut, with a stovepipe chimney, two windows, and a door -- Christopher stood at the entrance and seemed to illuminate it.