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penetrate
English
Etymology
From Latin pen?tr?tus, past participle of pen?tr? (“to put, set, or place within, enter, pierce, penetrate”), from penes (“within, with”) by analogy to intr? (“to go in, enter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?n?t?e?t/
- Hyphenation: pen?e?trate
Verb
penetrate (third-person singular simple present penetrates, present participle penetrating, simple past and past participle penetrated)
- To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
- (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
- things which here were […] too subtile for us to penetrate
- To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
- The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
- 1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature
- To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
- To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.
- (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
Derived terms
- penetration
- penetrable
Translations
Further reading
- penetrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- penetrate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- penetrate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /penet?rate/
Verb
penetrate
- present adverbial passive participle of penetri
Italian
Verb
penetrate
- second-person plural present indicative of penetrare
- second-person plural imperative of penetrare
- feminine plural of penetrato
Latin
Verb
penetr?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of penetr?
penetrate From the web:
- what penetrates water in the photic zone
- what penetrates the hair follicle
- what penetrates the skin
- what penetrate mean
- what penetrates the diaphragm
- what penetrates the blood brain barrier
- what penetrates nails
- what penetrates the anterior sacral foramina
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
illustrate From the web:
- what illustrate means
- what illustrates the concept of civic virtue
- what illustrates placement of content on pages
- what illustrates the speed of an object in motion
- what illustrates an idea or concept
- what illustrates a gradient
- what illustrates osmosis
- what illustrates conservation
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