Discount vs Illustrated - What's the difference?

discount | illustrated |

As a noun discount

is discount (reduction in price).

As a verb illustrated is

(illustrate).

discount

English

(wikipedia discount) (Webster 1913)

Verb

(en verb)

To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of.

Merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.

* Walsh

Discount only unexceptionable paper.

To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).

To leave out of account; to take no notice of.

* Sir William Hamilton

Of the three opinions, (I discount Brown's), under this head, one supposes that the law of Causality is a positive affirmation, and a primary fact of thought, incapable of all further analysis.

:They discounted his comments.

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Noun

(en noun)

A reduction in price.

A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.

The rate of interest charged in discounting.

Synonyms

* (reduction in price) rebate, reduction

Antonyms

* surcharge

Derived terms

* quantity discount * rediscount * seasonal discount

Descendants

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Adjective

(-)

Of goods, available at reduced prices; discounted.

This store specializes in discount wares.

Of a store, specializing in goods at reduced prices.

If you're looking for cheap clothes, there's a discount clothier around the corner.

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Anagrams

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illustrated

English

Verb

(head)

(illustrate)

illustrate

English

Verb

(illustrat)

(obsolete) To shed light upon; to illuminate.

* Were the Moon smooth, as a looking glass, a very small part would be seen by any particular eye to be illustrated by the Sun.

* Chapman

Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.

To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.

* Milton

To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.

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, year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England were graphically illustrating the huge gulf in class between the sides and it was no surprise when Lampard added the second just before the half hour. Steven Gerrard found his Liverpool team-mate Glen Johnson and Lampard arrived in the area with perfect timing to glide a header beyond Namasco.}}

* We illustrate our definitions by including quotations or simple examples.

To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.

* The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.

(obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious; to glorify.

* Milton

Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates .

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