The difference between Illuminate and Quill

Illuminate as a verb (transitive):

To shine light on something.

Illuminate as a verb (transitive):

To decorate something with lights.

Illuminate as a verb (transitive, figurative):

To clarify or make something understandable.

Illuminate as a verb (transitive):

To decorate the page of a manuscript book with ornamental designs.

Illuminate as a verb (transitive, figurative):

To make spectacular.

Illuminate as a verb (intransitive):

To glow; to light up.

Illuminate as a verb (intransitive):

To be exposed to light.

Illuminate as a verb (transitive, military):

To direct a beam toward.

Illuminate as a noun:

Someone thought to have an unusual degree of enlightenment.

Illuminate as an adjective (obsolete):

enlightened

Quill as a noun:

The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.

Quill as a noun:

A pen made from a feather.

Quill as a noun (figuratively):

Any pen.

Quill as a noun:

A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.

Quill as a noun:

A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.

Quill as a noun:

The pen of a squid.

Quill as a noun (music):

The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

Quill as a noun (music):

The tube of a musical instrument.

Quill as a noun (weaving):

Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

Quill as a verb:

To pierce or be pierced with quills.

Quill as a verb (figuratively):

To write.

Quill as a verb:

To form fabric into small, rounded folds.

Quill as a verb:

To decorate with quillwork.

Quill as a verb (US, and, Canada, especially, Appalachia, and, the Prairies, transitive):

To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).