illuminate

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.
动词 v.
  1. To shine light on something. transitive
    — Nero illuminated his gardens with live Christians soaked in tar, and we were now treated to a similar spectacle, probably for the first time since his day, only happily our lamps were not living ones.
  2. To decorate something with lights. transitive
  3. To clarify or make something understandable. figuratively,transitive
    — The situation, as it was, made it more difficult for him to leave. Yet it illuminated the very reasons why he had to go.
  4. To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs. transitive
  5. To make spectacular. figuratively,transitive
    — Hodgson's approach may not illuminate proceedings in Poland and Ukraine but early evidence suggests they will be tough to break down.
  6. To glow; to light up. intransitive
    — Red diode in button illuminates when camera runs at speed set in five-digit speed selector.
  7. To be exposed to light. intransitive
  8. To direct a radar beam toward. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Enlightened, illuminated, made bright. obsolete
    — February 28 1630, Joseph Hall, The Hypocrite do ye see an illuminate elder of the anabaptists rapt in divine ecstasies?
  2. Enlightened spiritually, divinely taught or inspired; in technical use, converted, baptized. figuratively
  3. Learned, erudite. archaic

词形变化

illuminates present,singular,third-person illuminating participle,present illuminated participle,past illuminated past more illuminate comparative most illuminate superlative illuminates plural

词汇关系

近义词
enlighten illumine quill shine alight beshine bright fire illume illuminate irradiate light lighten light up luster lustrate shed light on
反义词
endarken
下位词
glisten flash shine
衍生词
counterilluminate disilluminate illuminative illuminator interilluminate preilluminate reilluminate retroilluminate transilluminate
相关词
luminous lumens

词源

词源 1
From Middle English illuminaten, borrowed from Latin illūminātus, perfect passive participle of illūminō (“lighten, light up, show off”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from in + lūminō (“light up”), from lūmen (“light”). Cognate with Old English lȳman (“to glow, shine”). More at leam.
词源 2
From Latin illūminātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more. For sense 3, see also Lumières.
词源 3
From a substantivation of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more.
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