Illuminate vs Emblaze - What's the difference?
illuminate | emblaze |
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.
* 1994 , Sylvia Carlson, ?Verne Carlson, Professional Cameraman's Handbook (ISBN 024080080X), page 494:
* 2011'/'''2012 , "Spectrum", written by Florence Welch and Paul Epworth, performed by (Florence and the Machine), released on the album ''Ceremonials (2011):
To be exposed to light.
(military) To direct a (radar) beam toward.
To kindle; set ablaze.
To adorn with glittering embellishments; cause to glitter or shine.
(poetic) To illuminate; to etch or display in a bright, fiery way; blazon.
* 1915 , Robert Tuttle Morris, Doctors Versus Folks
* 1997 , Delerium (band), Euphoria (Firefly) (song)
In transitive terms the difference between illuminate and emblaze
is that illuminate is to decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs while emblaze is to adorn with glittering embellishments; cause to glitter or shine.As a noun illuminate
is someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.As an adjective illuminate
is 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 * illuminatoremblaze
English
Verb
(emblaz)- When a window screen is emblazed with a pretty design, one cannot look into the room beyond because of arrest of vision by the figure upon the screen.
- This feeling emblazed inside. / Every nerve like a firefly.