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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
illustration
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
botanical
▪ Many other notable botanical illustrators, including Lillian Snelling, are represented in the collections of botanical art and illustration.
clear
▪ Northern Ireland provides a particularly clear illustration of the sometimes hidden problems involved in majoritarian thinking about democracy.
▪ The clearest illustrations of the relative nature of crime can be seen by comparing distinct and different cultures.
▪ The clear, lively illustrations in full colour add to children's motivation.
▪ This handy book has step-by-step instructions and clear illustrations.
good
▪ Differential association is a good illustration of these two contradictory tendencies.
▪ The classic traveling-salesman problem is a good illustration of nodes and connections issues.
▪ There are many more good illustrations coming in to the Library than there are analytical entries or other index terms.
▪ A good illustration is a piece I received in the mail yesterday.
▪ The following case provides a very good illustration of the legal problems arising from allegations of fraud.
▪ The debate over prayer was perhaps the best illustration of what was at issue.
▪ The concentration of ethnic minority women workforce in the garment industry owned by minority businessmen is a good illustration.
▪ Lynn's relationship with Stuart is a good illustration of this.
graphic
▪ But techniques of reproducing graphic images - illustrations - were very slow to develop.
▪ Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters.
simple
▪ Two simple illustrations may be given.
▪ To take a simple illustration, they should be enabled to read a serious daily newspaper and understand what they read.
▪ Here is a simple illustration of what is at issue.
▪ Below is a simple illustration of this, given on two staves to save space.
▪ He explained some basic principles of physical chemistry using simple illustrations.
▪ However it is undeniably expensive for a paperback with simple line diagram illustrations and no colour.
▪ Consider the following simple illustration of a one bank economy where a 10 percent liquid assets ratio must be maintained.
▪ Here is a simple illustration from the law of tort.
useful
▪ As always, the behaviour of light is a useful source of illustration.
▪ Public housing again provides a useful illustration.
▪ It is a useful illustration as long as we remember that no illustration is exact.
▪ The most useful form of illustration would have been sets of drawings on papyri or thin wood tablets, loosely bound together.
vivid
▪ The cold fusion controversy provides a vivid illustration.
▪ The special includes vivid illustrations of the impact meteors have had in the past and what could happen in the future.
▪ But there is another vivid illustration of the discrimination practised by the Labour Party against people who live in the province.
▪ Lafaille's climbs give vivid illustration that adventure can still be found, even in the world's most crowded massif.
▪ Try to find a vivid illustration of your theme to start off your talk.
▪ The vivid illustrations in the Blue Books of the 1840s could as well have come from the mines of Shropshire in 1770.
▪ The Star's fuller reports gave a vivid illustration of two starkly contrasting versions of the same incident.
■ NOUN
book
▪ The aquatint, as a book illustration, was predominant in the period 1790-1830.
▪ Instruction is in various media and covers landscapes, portraiture, still life, book illustration and more.
▪ They are beyond and outside what was obligatory book illustration.
▪ Attention is also devoted to his work in the fields of architecture and book illustration.
▪ The smaller of the two is devoted to Picasso's prints and book illustrations.
▪ This sometimes emerges when we find a book illustration, or a film or television interpretation, unconvincing.
▪ Since 1985, she has concentrated on children's book illustrations.
▪ Many have been produced in all honesty as book illustrations or in celebration of some interesting event or anniversary.
colour
▪ Every page of the book has at least one stunning, full colour illustration - a rich and inspiring treat.
▪ A catalogue of colour illustrations of works on display together with essays by the selectors is being published.
▪ Art books are expensive to produce, especially if they contain colour illustrations.
▪ At the end of the twentieth century, at least some colour illustrations are likely to find places in a monograph.
▪ Previous volumes, whose authors include Wittkower, Haskell, Baxandall and Girouard, will be updated with colour illustrations.
▪ It is excellent value with good colour illustrations, many well-presented diagrams and an up-to-date bibliography.
■ VERB
accompany
▪ A letterpress accompanying the illustrations would give the work a scientific legitimacy that Audubon's work as well as Lear's had lacked.
▪ Table 4-7 provides a checklist of the determinants of supply: the accompanying illustrations deserve careful study.
▪ The articles are accompanied by illustrations and graphics.
contain
▪ Art books are expensive to produce, especially if they contain colour illustrations.
▪ Monographs may also contain additional illustrations, and maps showing distributions of individual taxa.
▪ Certainly they contain similar sayings and illustrations.
▪ It contained eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Edward Burr e-Jones and woodcut borders and initials by Morris himself.
give
▪ Let me give you a personal illustration.
▪ But in order to give a preliminary illustration, we can take the example of these lectures.
▪ I would like to give you just one illustration to show what I mean by the disintegrating influence of a dynamic force.
▪ Lafaille's climbs give vivid illustration that adventure can still be found, even in the world's most crowded massif.
▪ Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters.
▪ Aspects of the revolt gave further illustration of the unreliable loyalty of sections of the armed forces.
▪ Let me give two illustrations that might unpack this a little more.
▪ The Star's fuller reports gave a vivid illustration of two starkly contrasting versions of the same incident.
include
▪ It may include packaging, illustration and computer graphics.
▪ The special includes vivid illustrations of the impact meteors have had in the past and what could happen in the future.
▪ The sites shared administrative costs, selectors and a catalogue which included an illustration and biographical details for each artist.
offer
▪ The rise of the Carron de Saint-Thomas clan offers a generalized illustration of how the Savoyard administrative elite developed at this time.
provide
▪ Northern Ireland provides a particularly clear illustration of the sometimes hidden problems involved in majoritarian thinking about democracy.
▪ Public housing again provides a useful illustration.
▪ Product particulars relating to Midland Pensions including details of charges will be provided with your illustration.
▪ Stack wrote the story; his uncle, commercial artist Charles W.. Stack, provided the illustrations.
▪ The following case provides a very good illustration of the legal problems arising from allegations of fraud.
▪ Exhibit 5. 3 provides a simplified illustration of the difference between the two methods.
▪ The cold fusion controversy provides a vivid illustration.
▪ Knyvet provides an interesting illustration of the problems faced by the Crown in raising revenue.
see
▪ You will see from the illustration that the vocal tract has several resonant cavities.
▪ But as I settled into Campbell Hall, I saw illustrations continually, ones that complicated easy judgment and expectation.
▪ It indicates the gentlest form of detachment. See for an illustration ex.6 from Donna Anna's first accompanied recitative.
▪ When we look back over our lives we can see countless illustrations of this fact.
▪ As will be seen by the illustrations, Basler and Professional/AMI have come up with very different looking installations.
▪ Mr Hellyer could see the illustration now.
▪ They are in danger of seeing each illustration as a separate creation, in a picture-frame rather than in a story.
▪ I've only seen an illustration.
show
▪ In Fig. 8-3 we show for purposes of illustration the Cobb Douglas case.
▪ Think of a particular organization performance challenge you face as you look over the designs shown in the illustrations on page 266.
▪ A stop end is normally used, constructed as follows and as shown in the illustration.
▪ These can be used in countless ways, several of which are shown in the illustration.
▪ Charlie tell us that she has to programme the computers to show the correct illustrations.
use
▪ He explained some basic principles of physical chemistry using simple illustrations.
▪ Walton, using audio clips for illustration, describes some popular methods of representing bird song.
▪ This is nowhere better illustrated than in the case we used for our basic illustration of good design itself - echolocation.
▪ Hands and arms are used for illustration, for replacing speech, for indicating emotional states, and for grooming oneself.
▪ That would certainly be the case for vectors drawn on the page, which I used as my opening illustration.
▪ He used the illustration of the wedding.
▪ Giddens uses another illustration drawn from the car industry.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The new encyclopedia is full of color illustrations and photographs.
▪ Who did the illustrations for the book? They're lovely.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the illustration, the pullover is shown with the motif in allover repeat, using the central row of diamonds version.
▪ So there was often an element of delusion about zoological illustration.
▪ Taken as a set, the most critical performance-driven distinctions that emerge from the illustrations operate at two levels.
▪ The illustration of the horizontal organization presents the richest contrast to that of the vertical.
▪ The best illustration of what the relationship involved is found in the careers of two esquires, Nicholas Molyneux and John Winter.
▪ They are beyond and outside what was obligatory book illustration.
▪ Two simple illustrations may be given.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Illustration

Illustration \Il`lus*tra"tion\, n. [L. illustratio: cf. F. illustration.]

  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 obscurity.

  3. A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
illustration

c.1400, "a shining;" early 15c., "a manifestation;" mid-15c., "a spiritual illumination," from Old French illustration "apparition, appearance," and directly from Latin illustrationem (nominative illustratio) "vivid representation" (in writing), literally "an enlightening," from past participle stem of illustrare "light up, make light, illuminate;" figuratively "make clear, disclose, explain; adorn, render distinguished," from assimilated form of in- "in" (see in- (2)) + lustrare "make bright, illuminate," related to lucere "shine," lux "light" (see light (n.)). Mental sense of "act of making clear in the mind" is from 1580s. Meaning "an illustrative picture" is from 1816.

Wiktionary
illustration

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 obscurity.

WordNet
illustration

  1. n. artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

  2. showing by example [syn: exemplification]

  3. 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: example, instance, representative]

  4. a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

Wikipedia
Illustration

An illustration is a decoration, interpretation or visual explanation of a text, concept or process, designed for integration in published media, such as posters, flyers, magazines, books, teaching materials, animations, video games and films.

The origin of the word “illustration” is late Middle English (in the sense ‘illumination; spiritual or intellectual enlightenment’): via Old French from Latin illustratio(n- ), from the verb illustrate.

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.