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Definition: ILLUSTRATING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To clarify, elucidate, expound, explain or explicate. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To transpose. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To construe or interpret. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To display, exhibit, show, demonstrate or expose. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To highlight. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To voice or sound.[Eve - graph theoretic]
7. Present participle conjugation of the verb illustrate.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(illustrate)
1. Clarify by giving an example of.[Wordnet].
2. Depict with an illustration.[Wordnet].
3. Supply with illustrations; "illustrate a book with drawings".[Wordnet].
4. E.g., illustrate a book with drawings.[Wordnet].
5. To make clear, bright, or luminous.[Websters].
6. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.[Websters].
7. To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.[Websters].
8. To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.[Websters].
9. To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.[Websters].
10. Base verb from the following inflections: illustrating, illustrated, illustrates, illustrator, illustrators, illustratingly and illustratedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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Date "Illustrating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definition: ILLUSTRATING

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Verb] Making bright or glorious; rendering distinguished; elucidating.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary [Verb] Present participle of illustrate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Definition: ILLUSTRATING

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To clarify, elucidate, expound, explain or explicate. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To transpose. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To construe or interpret. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To display, exhibit, show, demonstrate or expose. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. To highlight. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. To voice or sound.[Eve - graph theoretic]
7. Present participle conjugation of the verb illustrate.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(illustrate)
1. Clarify by giving an example of.[Wordnet].
2. Depict with an illustration.[Wordnet].
3. Supply with illustrations; "illustrate a book with drawings".[Wordnet].
4. E.g., illustrate a book with drawings.[Wordnet].
5. To make clear, bright, or luminous.[Websters].
6. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously.[Websters].
7. To make clear, intelligible, or apprehensible; to elucidate, explain, or exemplify, as by means of figures, comparisons, and examples.[Websters].
8. To adorn with pictures, as a book or a subject; to elucidate with pictures, as a history or a romance.[Websters].
9. To give renown or honor to; to make illustrious; to glorify.[Websters].
10. Base verb from the following inflections: illustrating, illustrated, illustrates, illustrator, illustrators, illustratingly and illustratedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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Date "ILLUSTRATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definition: ILLUSTRATING

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Verb] Making bright or glorious; rendering distinguished; elucidating.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Wiktionary[Verb] Present participle of illustrate. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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