Lucent vs Illuminate - What's the difference?
lucent | illuminate |
Emitting light; shining, luminous.
Translucent; clear, lucid.
*1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, pp. 9-10:
*:her dilated eyes fixed with a horror-stricken fascination upon the pygmy burial-ground, in that broad, lucent expanse of the yellow moonlight which was still streaming through the illuminated gorge of the mountains into an otherwise dusky world.
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.
* {{quote-news
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, date=June 2
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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.
As adjectives the difference between lucent and illuminate
is that lucent is emitting light; shining, luminous while illuminate is (obsolete) enlightened.As a verb illuminate is
to shine light on something.As a noun illuminate is
someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.lucent
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* lucentlyilluminate
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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 /