illustration
IPA: ɪɫʌstrˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct;
- The state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
- Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
- A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work.
- A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)
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Examples of "illustration" in Sentences
- An illustration is the tradeoff in refinancing a home mortgage.
- My favorite illustration is in chapter 13, when Peter eats stew at Leo's house.
- Paul earned his BFA in illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Another inspired illustrator, one that jumped from the pulps to pretty much every kind of illustration, is was the legendary Wally Wood.
- I offer the picture partly in illustration of what I said yesterday, that the Princess sweeps forward and can carry mistakes along with her.
- For example the term illustration can mean many different things to different people, and have many different costs depending of what's being requested.
- ** I don't claim that the illustration is a perfect likeness (it's remarkably hard to draw someone from memory more than a decade after the fact), but I do hope it catches something of his hunched pathetitude.
- The period chosen for my illustration is the moment when the last shell fired from the fleet bursts over the battery; and the troops, illumined by the glare, are seen rushing to the parapet to repel the assault.
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