an unilluminated area

theater light at the front of a stage that illuminate the set and actors

fldlt/ adj lit by floodlights. Syn-onym illuminated

(usually plural) a device with an explosive that burns at a low rate and with colored flames; can be used to illuminate areas or send signals etc.

2 make sth clearADV. greatly, vividtiy an incident which vividly illuminated the problems we faced.VERB + ILLUMINATE help (to) The study of the present also helps to illuminate the past. 

A fit of anger, Any of various natural, oily or greasy heat-sensitive substances, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar, A preparation containing wax used for polishing floors and other surfaces, adjective_ Made of wax, intransitive verb_ To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; -- opposed to wane, To speak or write as specified, To show a progressively larger illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from new to full, transitive verb_ To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax, cloth covered with a coating of wax, used as a cover, of tables and for other purposes; -- called also wax cloth, a thread pointed with a bristle and covered with shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots, shoes, and the like; -- called also wax end

A strong beam of light that illuminates only a small area, used especially to center attention on a stage performer, Public notoriety or prominence, a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer, verb_ illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater, To draw attention to, transitive verb_ To illuminate with a spotlight, To focus attention on

That portion, of any spectrum, which consists of rays less refrangible than the longest wave-lengths of the visible spectrum, A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum, the spectrum of an incandesoent gas or vapor, under moderate, or especially under very low, pressure. It is characterized by bright bands or lines

The clear, yellowish fluid portion of blood, lymph, or intramuscular fluid in which cells are suspended. It differs from serum in that it contains fibrin and other soluble clotting elements, Unorganized material; elementary matter, the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended, adjective_ Of or relating to a flat-panel display used in televisions, made up of an array of tiny cells each containing a gaseous mixture of xenon and neon that is changed into a plasma state to illuminate a phosphor coating on the inside of the cell

In the traditional model of solar systems, a celestial body larger than an asteroid or comet, illuminated by light from a star, such as the sun, around which it revolves, A celestial body that orbits the sun, has sufficient mass to assume nearly a round shape, clears out dust and debris from the neighborhood around its orbit, and is not a satellite of another planet, People as a whole; humankind or the general public