Illustration vs. Cartoon

Illustration and Cartoon Definitions
Illustration
The act of illustrating or the state of being illustrated
Concepts that would benefit from illustration.
An idea that lends itself to illustration.
Cartoon
A drawing depicting a humorous situation, often accompanied by a caption.
Illustration
A picture or image that is used to decorate or clarify a text.
Cartoon
A drawing representing current public figures or issues symbolically and often satirically
A political cartoon.
Illustration
An example that is used to clarify or explain something.
Cartoon
A preliminary sketch similar in size to the work, such as a fresco, that is to be copied from it.
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Illustration
(Obsolete) Illumination.
Cartoon
A usually short, animated movie or television program.
Illustration
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct;
Cartoon
An animated character in a movie or television program.
Illustration
The state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
Cartoon
A comic strip.
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Illustration
Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
Cartoon
A ridiculously oversimplified or stereotypical representation
Criticized the actor's portrayal of Jefferson as a historically inaccurate cartoon.
Illustration
A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work.
The illustration showing the water cycle made it much easier to understand for the children.
The sleeve of the band's new CD includes illustrations from deceased former members.
Cartoon
To draw a humorous or satirical representation of; caricature.
Illustration
A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance)
Cartoon
To make humorous or satirical drawings.
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Illustration
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
Cartoon
(comics) A humorous drawing, often with a caption, or a strip of such drawings.
Illustration
That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.
Cartoon
(comics) A drawing satirising current public figures.
Illustration
A picture designed to decorate a volume or elucidate a literary work.
Cartoon
(arts) An artist's preliminary sketch.
Illustration
Artwork that helps make something clear or attractive
Cartoon
(arts) A full-sized drawing that serves as the template for a fresco, a tapestry, etc.
Illustration
Showing by example
Cartoon
(animation) An animated piece of film which is often but not exclusively humorous.
Illustration
An item of information that is representative of a type;
This patient provides a typical example of the syndrome
There is an example on page 10
Cartoon
A diagram in a scientific concept.
Illustration
A visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand
Cartoon
To draw a cartoon, a humorous drawing.
Cartoon
(arts) To make a preliminary sketch.
Cartoon
A design or study drawn of the full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; - used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.
Cartoon
A large pictorial sketch, as in a journal or magazine; esp. a pictorial caricature; as, the cartoons of "Puck."
Cartoon
Same as comic strip.
Cartoon
A motion picture consisting of a series of frames, each being a photograph of a drawing rather than a frame produced by filming a scene of true action, and in which the objects are displaced slightly in succeeding frames so as to give the appearance of motion when projected as a motion picture on the screen. The types of characters portrayed in such films are often similar or identical to those in a comic strip.
Cartoon
A humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine
Cartoon
A film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
Cartoon
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