Illuminate vs Interpret - What's the difference?
illuminate | interpret |
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 explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.
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, title= To apprehend and represent by means of art; to show by illustrative representation; as, an actor interprets the character of Hamlet; a musician interprets a sonata; an artist interprets a landscape.
To act as an interpreter.
In intransitive terms the difference between illuminate and interpret
is that illuminate is to be exposed to light while interpret is to act as an interpreter.As verbs the difference between illuminate and interpret
is that illuminate is to shine light on something while interpret is to explain or tell the meaning of; to expound; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms; to decipher; to define; -- applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.; as, to interpret the Hebrew language to an Englishman; to interpret an Indian speech.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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- 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 /
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* transilluminate * illuminatorinterpret
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Verb
(en verb)- Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
- And Pharaoh told them his dreams; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
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