Illustrate vs Cite - What's the difference?
illustrate | cite |
(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
To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
* Milton
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Moldova 0-5 England
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* 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
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
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, title= To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
(informal) A citation.
As a verb illustrate
is (obsolete) to shed light upon; to illuminate.As an adjective cite is
full, brim-full.As a noun cite is
wedge, short spear or stick.illustrate
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Verb
(illustrat)- Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.
- To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
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- Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates .
References
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Verb
(cit)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
Derived terms
* citationSee also
* attest * quoteNoun
(en noun)- We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.