noun
1 picture in a book, etc.
ADJECTIVE
▪ black-and-white , colour/color , coloured/colored , full-colour/full-color
▪ cartoon , photographic , watercolour/watercolor , etc.
▪ botanical , medical , etc.
▪ full-page
▪
a wonderful book with full-page ~s
▪ beautiful , fine , wonderful
▪
The clear, lively ~s are in full colour/color.
▪ colourful/colorful
▪ detailed
▪
the new Inca map, with a detailed ~ of ancient Machu Picchu
▪ book , cover
▪ accompanying
ILLUSTRATION + VERB
▪ depict sth , show sth
▪ accompany sth
▪
the ~s accompanying the text
▪ appear
▪
His ~s have appeared in the pages of numerous publications.
PREPOSITION
▪ in an/the ~
▪
The kite is assembled as shown in the ~.
▪ with an/the ~
▪ ~ by
▪
‘The Black Cat’ by Alan Ahlberg, with ~s by Arthur Robins
2 example
ADJECTIVE
▪ excellent , good , perfect
▪ clear , dramatic , graphic , striking , vivid
▪
These events are a graphic ~ of the fact that their promises cannot be trusted.
▪ simple
▪
Let us take a very simple ~.
▪ classic , textbook
▪
It was a textbook ~ of the way the UN works.
VERB + ILLUSTRATION
▪ serve as
▪
Chicago serves as an ~ of the problems faced by such cities.
▪ give (sb) , offer , present , provide
▪
We then present an empirical ~ of these points.
▪
Explain the policy of détente and provide some ~s of how it worked in practice.
▪ take , use sth as , use sth for
▪
I will use one recent example as an ~.
ILLUSTRATION + NOUN
▪ purposes ( AmE )
▪
These figures are for ~ purposes only.
( illustrative purposes in BrE )
PREPOSITION
▪ as an ~
▪
As an ~ of this point, I'm going to tell you a true story.
▪ by way of ~
▪
He quoted several famous writers by way of ~.