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illustrate
English
Etymology
Back-formation from illustration.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l.??st?e?t/, /?.?l?s.t?e?t/
- (/??l.j?s?t?e?t/)
Verb
illustrate (third-person singular simple present illustrates, present participle illustrating, simple past and past participle illustrated)
- (obsolete) To shed light upon.
- Synonyms: illuminate; see also Thesaurus:illuminate
- (figuratively) To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
- To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
- (obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious.
- Synonym: glorify
See also
- shed light upon
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “illustrate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Italian
Adjective
illustrate f pl
- feminine plural of illustrato
Verb
illustrate
- second-person plural present of illustrare
- second-person plural imperative of illustrare
- feminine plural past participle of illustrare
Latin
Participle
ill?str?te
- vocative masculine singular of ill?str?tus
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carve
English
Etymology
From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerban?, from Proto-Indo-European *gerb?- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian g?rbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (žr?bii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek ??????? (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??v/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??v/
- Homophone: calve (Received Pronunciation)
- Rhymes: -??(?)v
Verb
carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved or (obsolete) corve, past participle carved or (archaic) carven or (obsolete) corven)
- (archaic) To cut.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad
- My good blade carves the casques of men.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
carve (plural carves)
- (obsolete) A carucate.
- 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
- ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...
- 1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31
- Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
- 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland
- The act of carving
Anagrams
- Caver, caver, crave, varec
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- what carve means
- what carved out the great lakes
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