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Radiate   /rˈeɪdiət/  /rˈeɪdiˌeɪt/   Listen
Radiate

verb
(past & past part. radiated; pres. part. radiating)
1.
Send out rays or waves.
2.
Send out real or metaphoric rays.
3.
Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center.  Synonym: ray.  "This plants radiate spines in all directions"
4.
Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.  Synonyms: beam, glow, shine.
5.
Cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays.
6.
Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.  Synonyms: beam, glow, shine.  "Her face radiated with happiness"
7.
Issue or emerge in rays or waves.
8.
Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate.  Synonym: diversify.
adjective
1.
Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center.  Synonyms: radial, stellate.  "A starlike or stellate arrangement of petals" , "Many cities show a radial pattern of main highways"
2.
Having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies.





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"Radiate" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Whence radiate? Fierce extremes employ Thy spirit in the dusking leaf, And in the midmost heart of grief Thy ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 • Various
... themselves about every corner, and up many posts of the veranda, and there is a wealth of cultivated wild flowers banked up in beds around it, nothing could be more pleasing and harmonious. Roads, walks and trails radiate from the Tavern in all directions, except directly across the Lake, and numerous boats and launches make this as accessible as any other direction. Near enough to be interesting is the wharf, with its daily bustle of the arrival and departure of ...
— The Lake of the Sky • George Wharton James
... health: "There is much reason for regarding the moon as a source of evil, yet not that she herself is so, but only the circumstances which attend her. With us it happens that a bright moonlight night is always a cold one. The absence of cloud allows the earth to radiate its heat into space, and the air gradually cools, until the moisture it contained is precipitated in the form of dew, and lies like a thick blanket on the ground to prevent a further cooling. When the quantity of moisture in the air is small, the refrigerating process ...
— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley
... with a countenance of dubious import. He was neither merry nor sad, neither talkative nor taciturn. At one moment his face seemed to radiate hope; the next, he appeared to fall under a shadow of solicitude. When his hostess talked of her son, he plainly gave no heed; his replies were mechanical. When she asked him for an account of what he had been doing down in ...
— Our Friend the Charlatan • George Gissing
... circulation had allowed the outer cold to radiate through a trifle. The walls had had a trifle extra explosive pressure from the room-air. A ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various


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