verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
light illuminates sth formal (= makes it bright or able to be seen )
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The light from the screen illuminated the people gathered round it.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
also
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They would also illuminate any steps.
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Study of these meditations therefore also illuminates aspects of the inner journey which all the medieval mystics take for granted.
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The Aceh deal should also illuminate the murky political scene in the Indonesiancapital.
■ NOUN
area
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As well as illuminating a relatively unexplored area , the research should be useful to educationalists and others working with Hindu children.
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She said she came to help illuminate the area with her headlights.
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More field work studies of systems analysts and how they relate to managers should illuminate this little known area of managerial work.
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But he hopes that scans should illuminate the precise areas of any deficits.
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More flares had joined the others, illuminating the area like some fiery aquatic tattoo.
face
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Nell's lamp softly illuminated their faces as they held a council of war.
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The light coming up from the freeway illuminated his face in a peculiar way.
light
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Jimmy was temporarily blinded by the orange light which suddenly illuminated the car windscreen.
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There are a number of ways in which one may use the individual pinpoints of light to illuminate the territory between them.
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Then a rectangle of brighter light illuminates the dusty ruched curtains as they glide towards the ceiling.
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But almost instantly the battery-powered emergency light came on, illuminating the nightmare scene with an eerie blue radiance.
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Beyond the doorway the dim light flared suddenly, illuminating the fleeing rats with an unearthly orange glow.
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Other areas are a blaze of colour as spot lights illuminate a vast choice of customer designs displayed on wall units.
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The shop lights illuminated them as though they were valuable items on display in a museum.
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A reset button is also provided, which is pressed if the charging light fails to illuminate .
nature
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We aim to illuminate the nature of their dilemmas and to show how they affect the bargaining relationships with foreign investors.
scene
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The Aceh deal should also illuminate the murky political scene in the Indonesiancapital.
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But almost instantly the battery-powered emergency light came on, illuminating the nightmare scene with an eerie blue radiance.
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The light from the hall illuminated the scene .
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Ambulances stood next to fire trucks, which illuminated the scene .
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A bare bulb illuminates the scene .
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There was some moon which would illuminate the scene suddenly, then be gone as though switched off by the scudding cloud.
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This was a most impressive end to the pursuit, with all the flashing blue lights illuminating the scene .
way
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Even the hardened expert will find something which illuminates in an original way some concept he has long taken for granted.
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Among psychologists, Erik Erikson and Bruno Bettelheim looked at narratives in illuminating ways .
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The lamp outside the turkey-house was still burning to illuminate their way along the front drive and into the yard.
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The stars illuminated their way through the village to the shopkeeper's house.
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It will be useful in conclusion to look at some incidents which illuminate the way in which symbolism operates in the religion.
■ VERB
help
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We hope it will help to illuminate the problems the designer faces in trying to promote such changes by introducing new material.
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But can they help to illuminate the question of what is on the move?
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Despite this difference, the plot of 587 does help illuminate the crisis of two years before.
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We can, how-ever, develop an album of sketches of a landscape that would help to illuminate the terrain.
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A brief résumé of the order of events helps to illuminate the course of the arguments about them.
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She said she came to help illuminate the area with her headlights.
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It's the clash or conflict of views that helps to illuminate the question. 4.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
illuminated manuscript/book
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An in-depth study of the production of hand-written illuminated manuscripts by medieval monks.
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Here there are 100,000 old books and illuminated manuscripts, some dating back to the tenth century.
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His own collection of miniatures was begun, he has said, because he could not afford to purchase entire illuminated manuscripts.
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It selects 140 illuminated books such as the Sherborne Missal and the Bedford Hours.
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She also restored illuminated manuscripts for Ruskin.
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The result is a candidate for the best book on illuminated manuscripts ever written.
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The screens of our word-machines glow as serenely as illuminated manuscripts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A small path was illuminated by low orange lamps concealed in the flower beds.
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Newly discovered artifacts may help illuminate the culture of the Aztecs.
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Small lights illuminate different points on the map.
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The blazing fire illuminated the china ornaments above the hearth.
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The room was illuminated by candles.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Annotated, logged and indexed, his book scarcely illuminated Belushi's demons, or the system that supposedly destroyed him.
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But their worry is focused like a hot, illuminating light in the right ways.
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Down below, he could see the single torch beam which illuminated Devlin, the girl and Gilbert.
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The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference, rather than the similarity, between her situation and mine.
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There are a number of ways in which one may use the individual pinpoints of light to illuminate the territory between them.