different between illuminate vs backlight
illuminate
English
Etymology
From Middle English illuminaten, borrowed from Latin ill?min?tum, supine of ill?min? (“lighten, light up, show off”), from in + l?min? (“light up”), from l?men (“light”). Cognate with Old English l?man (“to glow, shine”). More at leam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l(j)um?ne?t/, /??l(j)um?ne?t/ (verb)
- (verb)
- IPA(key): /??l(j)um?n?t/ (noun, adjective)
Verb
illuminate (third-person singular simple present illuminates, present participle illuminating, simple past and past participle illuminated)
- (transitive) To shine light on something.
- (transitive) To decorate something with lights.
- (transitive, figuratively) To clarify or make something understandable.
- (transitive) To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make spectacular.
- (intransitive) To glow; to light up.
- 1994, Sylvia Carlson, Verne Carlson, Professional Cameraman's Handbook ?ISBN, page 494:
- Red diode in button illuminates when camera runs at speed set in five-digit speed selector.
- 2011/2012, "Spectrum", written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, performed by Florence and the Machine, released on the album Ceremonials (2011):
- Say my name / and every color illuminates. / We are shining / […]
- 1994, Sylvia Carlson, Verne Carlson, Professional Cameraman's Handbook ?ISBN, page 494:
- (intransitive) To be exposed to light.
- (transitive, military) To direct a radar beam toward.
Synonyms
- (shine light on something): belight, enlighten, illumine; See also Thesaurus:illuminate
- (decorate something with lights): See also Thesaurus:decorate
- (make something understandable): bring home, clarify, elucidate, explicitize, sort out, straighten out
- (decorate the page of a manuscript book): illustrate, quill; See also Thesaurus:decorate
- (to glow; to light up): gleam, illumine, shine; See also Thesaurus:shine
Derived terms
- transilluminate
- illuminator
Translations
Noun
illuminate (plural illuminates)
- Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
Adjective
illuminate (comparative more illuminate, superlative most illuminate)
- (obsolete) enlightened
- February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite
- do ye see an illuminate elder of the anabaptists rapt in divine ecstasies?
- February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite
Interlingua
Participle
illuminate
- past participle of illuminar
Italian
Adjective
illuminate f pl
- feminine plural of illuminato
Verb
illuminate
- second-person plural present of illuminare
- second-person plural imperative of illuminare
- feminine plural past participle of illuminare
Anagrams
- alluminite
Latin
Participle
ill?min?te
- vocative masculine singular of ill?min?tus
References
- illuminate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- illuminate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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- what illuminates the specimen on a microscope
backlight
English
Etymology
back +? light
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæk.la?t/
Noun
backlight (plural backlights)
- (countable) A spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind.
- (uncountable) Light that is behind a photographic subject.
- (countable) A light attached to an LCD display.
- (countable) The rear window of a motor car.
Translations
Verb
backlight (third-person singular simple present backlights, present participle backlighting, simple past and past participle backlighted or backlit)
- (transitive) To illuminate something from behind.
Translations
backlight From the web:
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- what backlight should i use
- what's backlight on tv
- what's backlight bleed
- what backlight means
- what backlight do i have
- backlit keyboard
- what backlight used for
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