Definition of illustration in English:

illustration

noun ɪləˈstreɪʃ(ə)nˌɪləˈstreɪʃ(ə)n

1A picture illustrating a book, newspaper, etc.
an illustration of a yacht
Example sentencesExamples
- Not only the texts were analysed, but also the covers and any illustrations in the books.
- Among the many illustrations in this new book are previously unpublished photographs by Warhol.
- The industry is still too accepting of mediocre illustrations and photography in general.
- Wentzloff has been drawing children's book illustrations since she was only a child.
- Blake's countless fans will be fascinated to see favourite illustrations in the original.
- His magazine illustrations and the drawings he made for his paintings have much in common.
- The photographs and illustrations enhance the information, and some new material is on display.
- The journal was beautifully produced, the illustrations including original prints.
- The newspaper featured many illustrations of the President Chairman and rather fewer of any one else.
- Scotland on Sunday has obtained images of the fingerprint illustrations central to the case.
- A big part of my understanding is through drawings or graphic illustrations.
- Including poems and illustrations, it is a beautifully produced book which shows the city in all its facets.
- It is therefore perhaps proper to review separately the illustrations that comprise this book.
- The book contains numerous illustrations but the poor reproduction detracts from their value.
- Most of these illustrations originally appeared in the research articles reporting the data.
- It's a large format picture book with facts and illustrations about the lives of people all over the world.
- As with any children's book, the first things that strike you are the illustrations.
- She was absolutely riveted to see at first hand the paintings which appear as illustrations in her textbooks.
- I really do think I shall be able to work the stories and the illustrations up into a nice little book for publication.
- It was Mr. Kalliganur who did the cover design and also a few illustrations for all these books.
Synonyms
picture, drawing, sketch, figure, graphic
plate, print, engraving, etching, cut, woodcut, linocut, photogravure, duotone, halftone
2mass noun The action or fact of illustrating something.
by way of illustration, I refer to the following case
Example sentencesExamples
- By the close integration of text, commentary, and illustration, he gave the renaissance world a definitive anatomical thesis.
- Exhaustively researched, The Sword and the Cross is somewhat deficient in maps and almost totally lacking in illustration.
- As a proportionalist, Dunn is very complete in his description and illustration of premoral and moral values.
- Gifted with his hands he studied illustration and design under Austin Molloy at the Metropolitan School of Art.
- With the decline of interest in Victoriana, such books disappeared and with them much of the art of architectural illustration.
- The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration.
- Born in Sunderland, she studied illustration and textile design at the Newcastle upon Tyne College of Art and Industrial Design.
- I had written my final thesis on mysticism and shamanism, complete with illustration and tipped in plates.
- Tucker's writings are diffuse and unmethodical, but marked by humour and quaint illustration and comment.
- We focus on legislation, explanation, interpretation and illustration in the form of examples.
- This use of illustration in accounts of life in a railway works is significant in several ways.
- It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’.
- At college I studied textiles and illustration, so I married the two.
- This is a powerful tool, and the author's explanation and illustration should help players apply it to their own study.
- What takes place is not interpretation but illustration.
- In fact, none of the regular contributing illustrators who did ads had any editorial illustration in the same issue.
- The three basic elements of translation, commentary, and illustration are pleasingly balanced.
- However Clarke is also known for his work in illustration.
- When I was there they were very much into minimalism, and they felt that figurative work was illustration, not art.
- Back at school, have the students record their memories through illustration or descriptive writing.
Synonyms
exemplification, demonstration, showing, instancing
example, typical case, representative case, case in point, instance, specimen, sample, exemplar, analogy
1. 2.1 An illustrative example.
  this accident is a graphic illustration of the disaster that's waiting to happen
  Example sentencesExamples
  The most vivid illustration of India's efforts to use soft power as a tool of foreign policy came recently in Afghanistan.
  This year in a perverse way has been a very good illustration of these basic facts.
  Another illustration that he gives is an analogy between words and pieces in a chess game.
  Does this illustration demonstrate that different ABC programmes provide different points of view?
  Perhaps the most graphic illustration of this was in the US three years ago.
  It is also an extremely funny illustration of the national obsession with word-play, in-jokes and notably filthy double entendre.
  My own case was merely an example, an illustration… guess I thought it would be a lot more common.
  An illustration of a study using a triangulation approach is an investigation by Hughes et al.
  The perfect illustration of this is Marshall Berman's example of the rock in the backyard.
  The graphic illustration of that is the Waco transaction where the client paid ten times the premium sought by the underwriter.
  David O. Russell used a similar effect in Three Kings as a graphic and terrifying illustration of what a gunshot can do.
  This slightly facetious example is an illustration of a problem that is causing some real teeth-gnashing.
  What more graphic illustration of that very point can there be than their reaction to Moore's article.
  His record provides perhaps the most graphic illustration of the real nature of this policy.
  He then gives a colourful and graphic illustration of the point.
  Now there is a quick visual illustration of the size of the problem - someone has made a wallchart containing all the characters so far assigned in Unicode.
  An illustration of the expansion is exemplified in the following Senior Steward's experience.
  Even if one applies the old test of not only tell the employee what to do but also how to do it, it would be a very clear illustration of the fact that it is not.
  Big Rock's seasonal example from last year was a much better illustration of this style of beer.
  Consider as an illustration Sartre's example of a young man torn between joining the Free French and caring for his aging mother.
  Synonyms
  exemplification, demonstration, showing, instancing

Derivatives

illustrational

adjective

More illustrational than painterly in feel, they are still further evidence of Joyce's playful sensibility.
Example sentencesExamples
- Schad's graphic work, often anecdotal and illustrational, is evocative of George Grosz but without the muscle.
- The only exceptions to this rule are a baseball card and a few purely illustrational reproductions of newspaper clippings or book covers.
- Norman Rockwell was a favorite with students who share a controlled technique with an illustrational style.
- The more successful figurative works break loose of the predictable illustrational quality, which undermines many of the works on show.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'illumination; spiritual or intellectual enlightenment'): via Old French from Latin illustratio(n-), from the verb illustrare (see illustrate).

Definition of illustration in US English:

illustration

nounˌiləˈstrāSH(ə)nˌɪləˈstreɪʃ(ə)n

1A picture illustrating a book, newspaper, etc.
an illustration of a yacht
Example sentencesExamples
- His magazine illustrations and the drawings he made for his paintings have much in common.
- The newspaper featured many illustrations of the President Chairman and rather fewer of any one else.
- A big part of my understanding is through drawings or graphic illustrations.
- The photographs and illustrations enhance the information, and some new material is on display.
- It was Mr. Kalliganur who did the cover design and also a few illustrations for all these books.
- It's a large format picture book with facts and illustrations about the lives of people all over the world.
- The industry is still too accepting of mediocre illustrations and photography in general.
- Not only the texts were analysed, but also the covers and any illustrations in the books.
- The journal was beautifully produced, the illustrations including original prints.
- She was absolutely riveted to see at first hand the paintings which appear as illustrations in her textbooks.
- As with any children's book, the first things that strike you are the illustrations.
- It is therefore perhaps proper to review separately the illustrations that comprise this book.
- Scotland on Sunday has obtained images of the fingerprint illustrations central to the case.
- I really do think I shall be able to work the stories and the illustrations up into a nice little book for publication.
- Most of these illustrations originally appeared in the research articles reporting the data.
- Among the many illustrations in this new book are previously unpublished photographs by Warhol.
- The book contains numerous illustrations but the poor reproduction detracts from their value.
- Blake's countless fans will be fascinated to see favourite illustrations in the original.
- Including poems and illustrations, it is a beautifully produced book which shows the city in all its facets.
- Wentzloff has been drawing children's book illustrations since she was only a child.
Synonyms
picture, drawing, sketch, figure, graphic
1. 1.1 An example serving to clarify or prove something.
  this accident is a graphic illustration of the disaster that's waiting to happen
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now there is a quick visual illustration of the size of the problem - someone has made a wallchart containing all the characters so far assigned in Unicode.
  Does this illustration demonstrate that different ABC programmes provide different points of view?
  This slightly facetious example is an illustration of a problem that is causing some real teeth-gnashing.
  Even if one applies the old test of not only tell the employee what to do but also how to do it, it would be a very clear illustration of the fact that it is not.
  The graphic illustration of that is the Waco transaction where the client paid ten times the premium sought by the underwriter.
  David O. Russell used a similar effect in Three Kings as a graphic and terrifying illustration of what a gunshot can do.
  Consider as an illustration Sartre's example of a young man torn between joining the Free French and caring for his aging mother.
  An illustration of a study using a triangulation approach is an investigation by Hughes et al.
  An illustration of the expansion is exemplified in the following Senior Steward's experience.
  It is also an extremely funny illustration of the national obsession with word-play, in-jokes and notably filthy double entendre.
  Big Rock's seasonal example from last year was a much better illustration of this style of beer.
  His record provides perhaps the most graphic illustration of the real nature of this policy.
  Perhaps the most graphic illustration of this was in the US three years ago.
  The most vivid illustration of India's efforts to use soft power as a tool of foreign policy came recently in Afghanistan.
  My own case was merely an example, an illustration… guess I thought it would be a lot more common.
  What more graphic illustration of that very point can there be than their reaction to Moore's article.
  This year in a perverse way has been a very good illustration of these basic facts.
  Another illustration that he gives is an analogy between words and pieces in a chess game.
  He then gives a colourful and graphic illustration of the point.
  The perfect illustration of this is Marshall Berman's example of the rock in the backyard.
  Synonyms
  exemplification, demonstration, showing, instancing
2. 1.2 The action or fact of illustrating something, either pictorially or by exemplification.
  by way of illustration, I refer to the following case
  Example sentencesExamples
  By the close integration of text, commentary, and illustration, he gave the renaissance world a definitive anatomical thesis.
  This is a powerful tool, and the author's explanation and illustration should help players apply it to their own study.
  At college I studied textiles and illustration, so I married the two.
  What takes place is not interpretation but illustration.
  As a proportionalist, Dunn is very complete in his description and illustration of premoral and moral values.
  Back at school, have the students record their memories through illustration or descriptive writing.
  It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’.
  Born in Sunderland, she studied illustration and textile design at the Newcastle upon Tyne College of Art and Industrial Design.
  The three basic elements of translation, commentary, and illustration are pleasingly balanced.
  We focus on legislation, explanation, interpretation and illustration in the form of examples.
  Exhaustively researched, The Sword and the Cross is somewhat deficient in maps and almost totally lacking in illustration.
  This use of illustration in accounts of life in a railway works is significant in several ways.
  I had written my final thesis on mysticism and shamanism, complete with illustration and tipped in plates.
  Tucker's writings are diffuse and unmethodical, but marked by humour and quaint illustration and comment.
  Gifted with his hands he studied illustration and design under Austin Molloy at the Metropolitan School of Art.
  With the decline of interest in Victoriana, such books disappeared and with them much of the art of architectural illustration.
  However Clarke is also known for his work in illustration.
  When I was there they were very much into minimalism, and they felt that figurative work was illustration, not art.
  In fact, none of the regular contributing illustrators who did ads had any editorial illustration in the same issue.
  The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration.
  Synonyms
  exemplification, demonstration, showing, instancing

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘illumination; spiritual or intellectual enlightenment’): via Old French from Latin illustratio(n-), from the verb illustrare (see illustrate).

单词	illustration
释义	Definition of illustration in English: illustration noun ɪləˈstreɪʃ(ə)nˌɪləˈstreɪʃ(ə)n 1A picture illustrating a book, newspaper, etc. an illustration of a yacht Example sentencesExamples Not only the texts were analysed, but also the covers and any illustrations in the books. Among the many illustrations in this new book are previously unpublished photographs by Warhol. The industry is still too accepting of mediocre illustrations and photography in general. Wentzloff has been drawing children's book illustrations since she was only a child. Blake's countless fans will be fascinated to see favourite illustrations in the original. His magazine illustrations and the drawings he made for his paintings have much in common. The photographs and illustrations enhance the information, and some new material is on display. The journal was beautifully produced, the illustrations including original prints. The newspaper featured many illustrations of the President Chairman and rather fewer of any one else. Scotland on Sunday has obtained images of the fingerprint illustrations central to the case. A big part of my understanding is through drawings or graphic illustrations. Including poems and illustrations, it is a beautifully produced book which shows the city in all its facets. It is therefore perhaps proper to review separately the illustrations that comprise this book. The book contains numerous illustrations but the poor reproduction detracts from their value. Most of these illustrations originally appeared in the research articles reporting the data. It's a large format picture book with facts and illustrations about the lives of people all over the world. As with any children's book, the first things that strike you are the illustrations. She was absolutely riveted to see at first hand the paintings which appear as illustrations in her textbooks. I really do think I shall be able to work the stories and the illustrations up into a nice little book for publication. It was Mr. Kalliganur who did the cover design and also a few illustrations for all these books. Synonyms picture, drawing, sketch, figure, graphic plate, print, engraving, etching, cut, woodcut, linocut, photogravure, duotone, halftone 2mass noun The action or fact of illustrating something. by way of illustration, I refer to the following case Example sentencesExamples By the close integration of text, commentary, and illustration, he gave the renaissance world a definitive anatomical thesis. Exhaustively researched, The Sword and the Cross is somewhat deficient in maps and almost totally lacking in illustration. As a proportionalist, Dunn is very complete in his description and illustration of premoral and moral values. Gifted with his hands he studied illustration and design under Austin Molloy at the Metropolitan School of Art. With the decline of interest in Victoriana, such books disappeared and with them much of the art of architectural illustration. The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration. Born in Sunderland, she studied illustration and textile design at the Newcastle upon Tyne College of Art and Industrial Design. I had written my final thesis on mysticism and shamanism, complete with illustration and tipped in plates. Tucker's writings are diffuse and unmethodical, but marked by humour and quaint illustration and comment. We focus on legislation, explanation, interpretation and illustration in the form of examples. This use of illustration in accounts of life in a railway works is significant in several ways. It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’. At college I studied textiles and illustration, so I married the two. This is a powerful tool, and the author's explanation and illustration should help players apply it to their own study. What takes place is not interpretation but illustration. In fact, none of the regular contributing illustrators who did ads had any editorial illustration in the same issue. The three basic elements of translation, commentary, and illustration are pleasingly balanced. However Clarke is also known for his work in illustration. When I was there they were very much into minimalism, and they felt that figurative work was illustration, not art. Back at school, have the students record their memories through illustration or descriptive writing. Synonyms exemplification, demonstration, showing, instancing example, typical case, representative case, case in point, instance, specimen, sample, exemplar, analogy 2.1 An illustrative example. this accident is a graphic illustration of the disaster that's waiting to happen Example sentencesExamples The most vivid illustration of India's efforts to use soft power as a tool of foreign policy came recently in Afghanistan. This year in a perverse way has been a very good illustration of these basic facts. Another illustration that he gives is an analogy between words and pieces in a chess game. Does this illustration demonstrate that different ABC programmes provide different points of view? Perhaps the most graphic illustration of this was in the US three years ago. It is also an extremely funny illustration of the national obsession with word-play, in-jokes and notably filthy double entendre. My own case was merely an example, an illustration… guess I thought it would be a lot more common. An illustration of a study using a triangulation approach is an investigation by Hughes et al. The perfect illustration of this is Marshall Berman's example of the rock in the backyard. The graphic illustration of that is the Waco transaction where the client paid ten times the premium sought by the underwriter. David O. Russell used a similar effect in Three Kings as a graphic and terrifying illustration of what a gunshot can do. This slightly facetious example is an illustration of a problem that is causing some real teeth-gnashing. What more graphic illustration of that very point can there be than their reaction to Moore's article. His record provides perhaps the most graphic illustration of the real nature of this policy. He then gives a colourful and graphic illustration of the point. Now there is a quick visual illustration of the size of the problem - someone has made a wallchart containing all the characters so far assigned in Unicode. An illustration of the expansion is exemplified in the following Senior Steward's experience. Even if one applies the old test of not only tell the employee what to do but also how to do it, it would be a very clear illustration of the fact that it is not. Big Rock's seasonal example from last year was a much better illustration of this style of beer. Consider as an illustration Sartre's example of a young man torn between joining the Free French and caring for his aging mother. Synonyms exemplification, demonstration, showing, instancing Derivatives illustrational adjective More illustrational than painterly in feel, they are still further evidence of Joyce's playful sensibility. Example sentencesExamples Schad's graphic work, often anecdotal and illustrational, is evocative of George Grosz but without the muscle. The only exceptions to this rule are a baseball card and a few purely illustrational reproductions of newspaper clippings or book covers. Norman Rockwell was a favorite with students who share a controlled technique with an illustrational style. The more successful figurative works break loose of the predictable illustrational quality, which undermines many of the works on show. Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'illumination; spiritual or intellectual enlightenment'): via Old French from Latin illustratio(n-), from the verb illustrare (see illustrate). Definition of illustration in US English: illustration nounˌiləˈstrāSH(ə)nˌɪləˈstreɪʃ(ə)n 1A picture illustrating a book, newspaper, etc. an illustration of a yacht Example sentencesExamples His magazine illustrations and the drawings he made for his paintings have much in common. The newspaper featured many illustrations of the President Chairman and rather fewer of any one else. A big part of my understanding is through drawings or graphic illustrations. The photographs and illustrations enhance the information, and some new material is on display. It was Mr. Kalliganur who did the cover design and also a few illustrations for all these books. It's a large format picture book with facts and illustrations about the lives of people all over the world. The industry is still too accepting of mediocre illustrations and photography in general. Not only the texts were analysed, but also the covers and any illustrations in the books. The journal was beautifully produced, the illustrations including original prints. She was absolutely riveted to see at first hand the paintings which appear as illustrations in her textbooks. As with any children's book, the first things that strike you are the illustrations. It is therefore perhaps proper to review separately the illustrations that comprise this book. Scotland on Sunday has obtained images of the fingerprint illustrations central to the case. I really do think I shall be able to work the stories and the illustrations up into a nice little book for publication. Most of these illustrations originally appeared in the research articles reporting the data. Among the many illustrations in this new book are previously unpublished photographs by Warhol. The book contains numerous illustrations but the poor reproduction detracts from their value. Blake's countless fans will be fascinated to see favourite illustrations in the original. Including poems and illustrations, it is a beautifully produced book which shows the city in all its facets. Wentzloff has been drawing children's book illustrations since she was only a child. Synonyms picture, drawing, sketch, figure, graphic 1.1 An example serving to clarify or prove something. this accident is a graphic illustration of the disaster that's waiting to happen Example sentencesExamples Now there is a quick visual illustration of the size of the problem - someone has made a wallchart containing all the characters so far assigned in Unicode. Does this illustration demonstrate that different ABC programmes provide different points of view? This slightly facetious example is an illustration of a problem that is causing some real teeth-gnashing. Even if one applies the old test of not only tell the employee what to do but also how to do it, it would be a very clear illustration of the fact that it is not. The graphic illustration of that is the Waco transaction where the client paid ten times the premium sought by the underwriter. David O. Russell used a similar effect in Three Kings as a graphic and terrifying illustration of what a gunshot can do. Consider as an illustration Sartre's example of a young man torn between joining the Free French and caring for his aging mother. An illustration of a study using a triangulation approach is an investigation by Hughes et al. An illustration of the expansion is exemplified in the following Senior Steward's experience. It is also an extremely funny illustration of the national obsession with word-play, in-jokes and notably filthy double entendre. Big Rock's seasonal example from last year was a much better illustration of this style of beer. His record provides perhaps the most graphic illustration of the real nature of this policy. Perhaps the most graphic illustration of this was in the US three years ago. The most vivid illustration of India's efforts to use soft power as a tool of foreign policy came recently in Afghanistan. My own case was merely an example, an illustration… guess I thought it would be a lot more common. What more graphic illustration of that very point can there be than their reaction to Moore's article. This year in a perverse way has been a very good illustration of these basic facts. Another illustration that he gives is an analogy between words and pieces in a chess game. He then gives a colourful and graphic illustration of the point. The perfect illustration of this is Marshall Berman's example of the rock in the backyard. Synonyms exemplification, demonstration, showing, instancing 1.2 The action or fact of illustrating something, either pictorially or by exemplification. by way of illustration, I refer to the following case Example sentencesExamples By the close integration of text, commentary, and illustration, he gave the renaissance world a definitive anatomical thesis. This is a powerful tool, and the author's explanation and illustration should help players apply it to their own study. At college I studied textiles and illustration, so I married the two. What takes place is not interpretation but illustration. As a proportionalist, Dunn is very complete in his description and illustration of premoral and moral values. Back at school, have the students record their memories through illustration or descriptive writing. It ‘gave a rotundity to my person, a wave and curl to my hair, and perhaps led me to fancy pictorial illustration and flaming colours’. Born in Sunderland, she studied illustration and textile design at the Newcastle upon Tyne College of Art and Industrial Design. The three basic elements of translation, commentary, and illustration are pleasingly balanced. We focus on legislation, explanation, interpretation and illustration in the form of examples. Exhaustively researched, The Sword and the Cross is somewhat deficient in maps and almost totally lacking in illustration. This use of illustration in accounts of life in a railway works is significant in several ways. I had written my final thesis on mysticism and shamanism, complete with illustration and tipped in plates. Tucker's writings are diffuse and unmethodical, but marked by humour and quaint illustration and comment. Gifted with his hands he studied illustration and design under Austin Molloy at the Metropolitan School of Art. With the decline of interest in Victoriana, such books disappeared and with them much of the art of architectural illustration. However Clarke is also known for his work in illustration. When I was there they were very much into minimalism, and they felt that figurative work was illustration, not art. In fact, none of the regular contributing illustrators who did ads had any editorial illustration in the same issue. The teachers read them and would award extra marks for descriptiveness, inventiveness and illustration. Synonyms exemplification, demonstration, showing, instancing Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘illumination; spiritual or intellectual enlightenment’): via Old French from Latin illustratio(n-), from the verb illustrare (see illustrate).
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