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What is the difference between illustrated and digit?

illustrated | digit |

As verbs the difference between illustrated and digit

is that illustrated is (illustrate) while digit is {{context|transitive|lang=en}} to point at or point out with the finger.

As a noun digit is

a finger or toe.

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.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , 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 .

    References

    * ----

    digit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A finger or toe.
  • * Owen
  • The ruminants have the cloven foot, i.e. two hoofed digits on each foot.
  • A numeral that can be combined with others to write larger numbers, and that cannot itself be split into other numerals.
  • The digits of the decimal number system are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, and those in the hexadecimal number system are those in the decimal system along with A, B, C, D, E and F.
    The number 2307 has four digits: the thousands digit is 2; the hundreds digit is 3; the tens digit is 0; and the units digit is 7.
  • (slang, in the plural) One's phone number.
  • That girl likes me — she gave me her digits .
  • (archaic) A finger's breadth, commonly estimated to be three quarters of an inch.
  • (astronomy) A twelfth of the diameter of the Sun or Moon; used to express the quantity of an eclipse.
  • An eclipse of eight digits is one which hides two thirds of the diameter of the disk.

    Derived terms

    * digital * digitize

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To point at or point out with the finger.