(v. t.) To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
(v. t.) To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
(v. t.) To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
(v. t.) To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate; as, to illuminate a text, a problem, or a duty.
(v. i.) To light up in token or rejoicing.
(a.) Enlightened.
(n.) One who enlightened; esp., a pretender to extraordinary light and knowledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(3) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
(4) These data show an extra-hepatic lipolytic effect of glucagon in vivo, but do not illuminate the significance of this effect in the intact animal.
(5) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
(6) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
(7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
(8) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
(9) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
(11) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
(12) One of these has high sporulation-inducing activity after illumination in vitro.
(13) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
(14) The effects of continuous illumination, adrenalectomy and induction or inhibition of microsomal enzymes on antipyretic action of phenacetin were evaluated.
(15) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(16) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(17) superficial or interstitial illumination) and the optical interaction coefficients of the irradiated tissue.
(18) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
(19) On prolonged UV-A illumination the ESR spectrum of 16-doxylstearic acid in dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles loaded with 8-methoxypsoralen changed dramatically as a second broad component gradually appeared.
(20) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.
Lantern
Definition:
(n.) Something inclosing a light, and protecting it from wind, rain, etc. ; -- sometimes portable, as a closed vessel or case of horn, perforated tin, glass, oiled paper, or other material, having a lamp or candle within; sometimes fixed, as the glazed inclosure of a street light, or of a lighthouse light.
(n.) An open structure of light material set upon a roof, to give light and air to the interior.
(n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns.
(n.) A smaller and secondary cupola crowning a larger one, for ornament, or to admit light; such as the lantern of the cupola of the Capitol at Washington, or that of the Florence cathedral.
(n.) A lantern pinion or trundle wheel. See Lantern pinion (below).
(n.) A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.
(n.) A perforated barrel to form a core upon.
(n.) See Aristotle's lantern.
(v. t.) To furnish with a lantern; as, to lantern a lighthouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
(2) Rio 2016 spokesman, Philip Wilkinson, explained there is a back-up of eight lanterns.
(3) The trip is a contrast in streetscapes: the former is best known for the Rainbow Bridge and the space-age headquarters of Fuji TV, the latter a wonderfully disorderly collection of narrow streets, old buildings and Sensoji Temple , instantly recognisable by the huge akachochin red lantern marking its entrance.
(4) The cases of seven adults who ingested jack o'lantern mushrooms are presented.
(5) The outcome of the plate test does not give evidence of the subject's lantern test performance.
(6) It has also swung a lantern over forbidden terrain: Jones’s personal beliefs.
(7) Didn’t have power, didn’t have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.
(8) That’s an innovative way to fund.” Much of the existing renewables provision in refugee camps – clean cookstoves and solar lanterns – is donated by NGOs and social enterprises on a small scale.
(9) The library was built as a "lantern for learning"; McElheny has used the moving images and illumination as central motifs.
(10) Already, solar lanterns and solar photovoltaic panels are bringing electricity to millions of Indians who have remained in the dark for generations.
(11) Male candidates (1020) for employment in occupations that required discrimination of colour were subjected to the Ishihara test and two trade tests of colour perception, the Giles Archer Lantern test and the Electricity Supply Industry (ESI) wire test.
(12) Bales acknowledged setting the bodies alight with a kerosene lantern.
(13) Earlier this year, the North called US secretary of state John Kerry a wolf with a “hideous” lantern jaw and South Korean president Park Geun-hye a prostitute.
(14) British forces successfully dropped water and rechargeable solar lanterns to the besieged Yazidi refugees earlier on Tuesday.
(15) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
(16) Around the city’s West Lake, a leafy tourist district where many of the G20’s leaders will sleep, red Chinese lanterns and Christmas lights hang from plane trees outside Ferrari and Aston Martin showrooms.
(17) A statement from DC and Warner Bros said: “In a massive expansion of the Studio’s DC Entertainment-branded content, Warner Bros Pictures and New Line Cinema will release a slate of at least 10 movies – as well as standalone Batman and Superman films – from 2016 through 2020 that expands this prized universe of characters: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Snyder (2016) Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer (2016) Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot (2017) Justice League Part One, directed by Zack Snyder, with Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams reprising their roles (2017) The Flash, starring Ezra Miller (2018) Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa (2018) Shazam (2019) Justice League Part Two, directed by Zack Snyder (2019) Cyborg, starring Ray Fisher (2020) Green Lantern (2020) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The second Avengers movie, Age of Ultron, is being released by Marvel next year.
(18) Sirens in the harbour will sound and 32 lanterns will be released into the sky.
(19) He certainly gave Green Lantern everything, doing as many of his own stunts as he could and ending up with a separated shoulder and in need of two minor operations.
(20) Instead of announcing Justice League for two years' time in a knee-jerk reaction to the success of The Avengers, why not turn that film into a Batman and Superman movie, while replacing Ryan Reynolds as the Green Lantern with someone more suitable and developing decent standalone takes on Wonder Woman, Aquaman and the Flash (the Martian Manhunter can turn up in a post-credits scene or something)?