Illuminated
[ɪ'ljuːmɪneɪtɪd] or [ɪ'lumɪnetɪd]
Definition
(adj.) provided with artificial light; 'illuminated advertising'; 'looked up at the lighted windows'; 'a brightly lit room'; 'a well-lighted stairwell' .
Checked by Evan--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Illuminate
Checker: Peggy
Examples
- But the difference is but one of emphasis; the meaning that is shaded in one set of words is illuminated in the other. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Venn then came nearer till he could see the illuminated side of her form. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The Oriental noblemen had removed their own illuminated manuscript, and had removed nothing else. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- No insight into the evident fact that power upsets all mechanical foresight and gravitates toward the natural leaders seems to have illuminated those historic deliberations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And one tiny figure moved over the vaguely-illuminated space. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Lights now appeared to guide us; and a long suite of splendid rooms illuminated, made us still more wonder. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The door of the house from which these sounds proceeded was open, the upper rooms were illuminated as for a feast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It illuminated her as her presence illuminated the heath. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He seemed to be entering in some strange element, passing into an illuminated new region, among a host of licentious souls. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It is most conspicuous when the illuminated part of the disc is at its smallest, as soon after new moon. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's carriage, coming up to the gate after due shouting, rattled into the illuminated court-yard and drove up to the covered way. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It was a good fire, and the room was illuminated by it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the cab they continued to remain silent through the brief drive which carried them to the illuminated portals of the Stepneys' hotel. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- By this time we had got into a current of carriages all tending in one direction, and soon the front of a great illuminated building blazed before us. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The other was an ancient Oriental manuscript, richly illuminated with Indian figures and devices, that lay open to inspection on a table. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Boulton and Watt, at Soho, was brilliantly illuminated with coal gas by Mr. Murdoch. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The launch was being illuminated. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But having come safely to rest, he began to walk on, in the illuminated darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The illuminated village had seized hold of the tocsin, and, abolishing the lawful ringer, rang for joy. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Here and there a strong red, green, or blue glare from a rocket that was struggling to get away, splendidly illuminated all the boats around it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The labours of these three men have illuminated the wildest waters of the sea and preserved a thousand fleets of commerce and of war from awful shipwreck. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He looked over all the dim, evanescent, strangely illuminated faces that bent across the tables. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Must I tell how I and the two stalwart companions I brought home from the illuminated park bore the test of intimate acquaintance? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She looked into an illuminated countenance, whose characters were all beaming, though the page itself was dusk. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Then shortly the brightness would disappear, and the former gloom again obscure the objects that had been momentarily illuminated. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In its inconvenient brightness Rosedale seemed to waver a moment, as though conscious that every avenue of escape was unpleasantly illuminated. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There, again, lay the illuminated manuscript on a table. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The tocsin began to ring, and the village illuminated itself, to guard against surprise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The space illuminated was at least three quarters of a mile broad. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Let us take for illustration the interior of a church, at first seen empty, and afterwards filled with people, and illuminated by candles. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
Checker: Peggy