illustration vs interpretation

illustration

noun
  • The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; 

  • A calculated prevision of insurance premiums and returns (life insurance) 

  • The state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 

  • A picture designed to decorate a publication, or elucidate a literary work. 

  • Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity. 

interpretation

noun
  • The power of explaining. 

  • A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning. 

  • heritage interpretation 

  • An assignment of a truth value to each propositional symbol of a propositional calculus. 

  • An act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases. 

  • An approximation that allows aspects of a mathematical theory to be discussed in ordinary language. 

  • An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version. 

  • The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language). 

  • An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature. 

How often have the words illustration and interpretation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )