(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.
Luminary
Definition:
(n.) Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.
(n.) One who illustrates any subject, or enlightens mankind; as, Newton was a distinguished luminary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later in the day, both presidents joined Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton at another Democratic luminary’s birthday party.
(2) Granta is rushing out 100,000 extra copies of Eleanor Catton's The Luminaries to capitalise on the first Booker prize win for the publishing house.
(3) Heather MacDonald of the Manhattan Institute – employer of such luminaries as Iraq War stooge Judith Miller, invariably wrong William Kristol and racist hack Charles Murray – was willing to go even further than Marshall in placing the blame for women’s economic travails on alienation from “the family” and then further blaming women’s thoughts for turning women against where they belong.
(4) He has, after all, been such a boxing luminary for 17 years, as loud and bright as an atomic bomb, that only the purblind or the ignorant could have failed to notice the fire in his gloves, the wings on his heels.
(5) A no campaign that emphasised those shared experiences would have struck a deep chord: "This is a very loyal British country in its soul," the SNP luminary said to my astonishment – hastily stressing that Scots' attachment was to an emotional Britishness, not the British state.
(6) The consensus at the RSA conference, where luminaries from the security community are gathered, is that Washington will have a hard time convincing Silicon Valley engineers to invent a technical solution to resolve the standoff between Apple and the FBI .
(7) The Russian tycoon has said he wants to have an editorial board comprised of luminaries such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Lebedev's personal friend, and Tony Blair.
(8) The Webby awards, often described as "the Oscars of the internet", are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities.
(9) She does not make things easy for herself: she has organised her 800-page epic according to astrological principles, so that characters are not only associated with signs of the zodiac, or the sun and moon (the "luminaries" of the title), but interact with each other according to the predetermined movement of the heavens, while each of the novel's 12 parts decreases in length over the course of the book to mimic the moon waning through its lunar cycle.
(10) Australian film producer Jan Chapman has said she is “devastated” after her photo was mistakenly used in the Oscars’ In Memoriam montage, which celebrates film industry luminaries who have died in the past year.
(11) The artist turned film-maker, whose only feature film to date is the acclaimed 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, reportedly beat out luminaries of the calibre of Joe Wright, Bennett Miller and Gus van Sant.
(12) Eleanor Catton's life swerved off its expected course almost exactly 12 hours before our meeting, the morning after her novel The Luminaries – a virtuoso work set amid the 1860s New Zealand gold rush – was named the winner of the 2013 Man Booker prize .
(13) Eleanor Catton is second favourite to win the Man Booker prize with her 823-page novel, The Luminaries, behind the favourite, Jim Crace.
(14) Criminals learning from NSA Intelligence agency hacking techniques will also be adopted by criminals, according to security luminaries speaking with The Guardian.
(15) But running for president can be tough, as political luminaries such as Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and George HW Bush have found.
(16) It's been suggested The Luminaries might be the Great New Zealand Novel, an idea that makes her uncomfortable.
(17) Cliff Richard was a supporter while other luminaries included Mary Whitehouse, Salvation Army leaders and senior clergy.
(18) It's been suggested recently that we've entered a new era of big books, with some highly praised novels, including The Luminaries and fellow Man Booker nominee The Kills , by Richard House , getting on for as much as 1,000 pages.
(19) She learned from the luminaries of the age: JB Priestley (whom she charges with taking an idea for a play from one she wrote), Bernard Shaw, Sybille Bedford, EM Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Rebecca West, Ian Fleming, Cyril Connolly, Charlie Chaplin, Stephen Spender, Muriel Spark, who observed an argument at dinner "expressionlessly – like a bird witnessing a road accident".
(20) From these results we speculate that reserve cells located in the intercalated small ducts of Bartholin's gland may have the potential to differentiate into two cell types, myoepithelial and luminary cells, the former forming the pseudocysts.