Write vs Illustrate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between write and illustrate

is that write is (lb) to form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate while illustrate is (obsolete) to shed light upon; to illuminate.

As a noun write

is (computing) the operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

write

English

Verb

(lb) To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate.

(lb) To be the author of (a book, article, poem, etc.).

*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language; his clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.

(lb) To send written information to.

(lb) To show (information, etc) in written form.

(lb) To be an author.

To record (data) mechanically or electronically.

To fill in, to complete using words.

To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave.

To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; often used reflexively.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who, by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is, which else no man could imagine.

Synonyms

* inscribe, scrawl (indistinctly), scribble (quickly or imprecisely) * (be the author of) author, pen * to post * display, indicate, mark, show * save, store * See also

Antonyms

* load, read, retrieve

Derived terms

* bewrite * co-write * hand-written * nothing to write home about * overwrite * rewrite * that's all she wrote * underwrite * who writes this stuff? * write down, write-down * write head * write in, write-in * write off, write-off * write once * * write one's own ticket * write-only * write out * writer * write up, write-up * writing

Noun

(en noun)

(computing) The operation of storing data, as in memory or onto disk.

How many writes per second can this hard disk handle?

* 2006 , MySQL administrator's guide and language reference (page 393)

In other words, the system can do 1200 reads per second with no writes , the average write is twice as slow as the average read, and the relationship is linear.

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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.

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, 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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