Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word ILLUSTRATION

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Definitions of ILLUSTRATION

1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct;
2. The state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
3. Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
4. A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work.
5. A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)

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Examples of Using ILLUSTRATION in a Sentence

• It has historically specialized in software for the creation and publication of a wide range of content, including graphics, photography, illustration, animation, multimedia/video, motion pictures, and print.
• While majoring in illustration and visual design at Auburn University, Holbrook served as art director of the student newspaper, doing editorial cartoons and a weekly comic strip.
• He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's coronation.
• The hydrofoil usually consists of a winglike structure mounted on struts below the hull, or across the keels of a catamaran in a variety of boats (see illustration).
• Megatokyo debuted on August 14, 2000, Gallagher's style of writing and illustration is heavily influenced by Japanese manga.
• NCS members work in many branches of the profession, including advertising, animation, newspaper comic strips and syndicated single-panel cartoons, comic books, editorial cartoons, gag cartoons, graphic novels, greeting cards, magazine and book illustration.
• The Olney Hymns are an illustration of the potent ideologies of the Evangelical movement, to which both men belonged, present in many communities in England at the time.
• Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 1850s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.
• Software documentation is written text or illustration that accompanies computer software or is embedded in the source code.
• Animated illustration of different phases as a meteoroid enters the Earth's atmosphere to become visible as a meteor and land as a meteorite.
• It was used by Bertrand Russell as an illustration of the paradox, though he attributes it to an unnamed person who suggested it to him.
• In 2004, a pop-up book adaptation was released with design by Kees Moerbeek and illustration by Alan Dingman.
• Her first illustration was published by New Idea magazine in 1903 when she was just 15 years of age – it accompanied a story written by her older sister, Annie Rattray Rentoul.
• Bernard Albert Wrightson (October 27, 1948 – March 18, 2017) was an American artist, known for co-creating the Swamp Thing, his adaptation of the novel Frankenstein illustration work, and for his other horror comics and illustrations, which feature his trademark intricate pen and brushwork.
• Today, such pens find only a small number of specialized uses, such as in illustration and calligraphy.
• Simplified user interface, a stylised illustration used in marketing, user onboarding and technical communication.
• John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was an American writer, Tony Award-winning costume designer, and artist, noted for his own illustrated books as well as cover art and illustration for books by other writers.
• An "upskirt" is a photograph, video, or illustration which incorporates such an image, although the term may also be used to refer to the area of the body inside a skirt, usually from below and while being worn.
• Primeros Memoriales, a manuscript written by Bernardino de Sahagún before his Florentine Codex, contains a description of Huixtocihuatl paired with an illustration.
• Related terms include: visual narrative, graphic narrative, pictorial narrative, picto-narrative, sequential narrative, sequential pictorial narrative, sequential storytelling, pictorial literature, sequential literature, and narrative illustration.
• In 1915, the Leonia School of Illustration was established by Harvey Dunn, fostering the artists' colony that subsequently emerged over the next decade.
• Despite making major (sometimes, signature) contributions as an innovative writer, visionary mythos/world builder and illustration architect, Finger (like other creators of his era) was often relegated to ghostwriter status on many comics—including those featuring Batman, and the original Green Lantern, Alan Scott.
• Hahn began deejaying in high school, and he studied illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
• After graduating high school, Shinoda enrolled in the Art Center College of Design of Pasadena to study graphic design and illustration.
• In 1988, Aldus released an illustration program, FreeHand, which was licensed from Fontographer developer Altsys.

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