Illuminate vs Contemplate - What's the difference?
illuminate | contemplate |
To shine light on something.
To decorate something with lights.
To clarify or make something understandable.
To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.
(figurative) To make spectacular.
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To glow; to light up.
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To be exposed to light.
(military) To direct a (radar) beam toward.
To look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.
* Milton
* Byron
To consider as a possibility.
* A. Hamilton
* Kent
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As verbs the difference between illuminate and contemplate
is that illuminate is to shine light on something while contemplate is to look at on all sides or in all its aspects; to view or consider with continued attention; to regard with deliberate care; to meditate on; to study, ponder, or consider.As a noun illuminate
is someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.As an adjective illuminate
is (obsolete) enlightened.illuminate
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Verb
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- Red diode in button illuminates when camera runs at speed set in five-digit speed selector.
- Say my name / and every color illuminates. / We are shining /
Synonyms
* *Derived terms
* transilluminate * illuminatorcontemplate
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Verb
(contemplat)- To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.
- We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate .
- There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.
- If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.
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