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Illustrated vs Figured - What's the difference?

illustrated | figured |

As verbs the difference between illustrated and figured

is that illustrated is (illustrate) while figured is (figure).

As an adjective figured is

(lb) having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.

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 .

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    figured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (figure)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (lb) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
  • :
  • Adorned with a figure or figures.
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  • *:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p.446:
  • *:Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.
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