Illustration
[ɪlə'streɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɪlə'streʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand.
(noun.) artwork that helps make something clear or attractive.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
(n.) A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
Editor: Segre
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Elucidation, explanation, exemplification.[2]. Illustrative picture.
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Examples
- A very simple illustration of the working of a steam engine is given in Figure 128. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A particularly interesting illustration of the results of this art occurred in Austria. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Branson 15/16 Automatic Knitter, shown in Fig. 292, is a good modern illustration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In the illustration of the building I have not placed the proper number of studding, but the reader can rest assured that once in 16 inches is not too often. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An illustration of the next latest type of this machine is presented in Fig. 2. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Accepting your illustration, surely we have one unquestionable virtue in England which is wanting in China. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- An illustration may give it content. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In illustration of this idea he invented a crane, which was erected on Newcastle quay in 1846; another was constructed on the Albert dock at Liverpool, and others at other places. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He looked like his illustration, as he raised his eyes to Mr. Lorry's face. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Merely to the illustration of _your_ character, said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- A more pronounced illustration is to wet the hands in a basin of water, and then plunge them in the blast of hot, dry air coming from a furnace register. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is seen in the illustration, No. 93. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A corkscrew is a familiar illustration of the screw. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In Rome it became a science very early, and gave a considerable degree of illustration to those citizens who had the reputation of understanding it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Langton Cole calls attention to the rope truss in this illustration, stiffening the beam of the ship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Lubbock has recently remarked, that several minute crustaceans offer excellent illustrations of this law. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A chisel and an ax are illustrations of wedges. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The kitchen coffee grinder and the meat chopper are other familiar illustrations. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They superseded wood engravings, which for years has been the recognized medium for illustrations to print on a type printing press. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In Figs. 265 and 266 are shown illustrations from the Sixteenth Century, Fig. 265 representing a muzzle loader, and Fig. 266 a breech-loader. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But this explanation does not account for the failure to use block printing in the case of illustrations and diagrams. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many familiar illustrations of lenses, or curved refracting surfaces, and their work, are known to all of us. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Simply, by the use of some of the machine types mentioned above, illustrations of which are known in a general way to every schoolboy. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Coal and tar and soot are good illustrations of objects which absorb all the light which falls upon them. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- One of the best modern illustrations of human thought and complicated manual operations contained in automatic machinery is the _Linotype_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The history of literature and art furnishes us with illustrations of remarkable powers of visualization. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The trade signs (and they were almost as many as the shops) were, all, grim illustrations of Want. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The above extracts are good illustrations, however, of scientific opinions up to the end of 1879, when Mr. Edison's epoch-making invention rendered them entirely untenable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The illustrations show some of the steps necessary before the iron reaches the shipping room. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The illustrations represented in Fig. 177 show the parasites that cause malaria, or fever and ague. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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