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/rˈeɪdiət/ /rˈeɪdiˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Radiate v. t.

To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat.

To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate. (R.)

Radiate v. i. (past & past part. radiated; pres. part. radiating)

To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. "Virtues shine more clear In them (kings), and radiate like the sun at noon."

To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat. "Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes."

noun

Radiate n. (Zool.) One of the Radiata.

adjective

Radiate adj.

Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate crystal.

(Bot.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.

(Zool.) Belonging to the Radiata.

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Etymology of 'Radiate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... amphitheater full of monuments, like all that strange country. A basin three miles across lay beneath him. Walls and weathered slants of rock and steep slopes of reddish-yellow sand inclosed this oval depression. The floor was white, and it seemed to move gently or radiate with heat-waves. Studying it, Slone made out that the motion was caused by wind in long bleached grass. He had crossed small areas of this grass in different parts ...

— Wildfire • Zane Grey

... condensed forces in its microscopic and ultramicroscopic elements—the whole a sort of microcosm of cosmic forces to which no conceivable compound of electric batteries is comparable; considering, again, that from an electric station waves of energy radiate through the viewless air to be caught up by a fit receiver a thousand miles distant, it is not inconceivable that the human brain may send off still more subtile waves to be accepted and interpreted by the fitly tuned receiving brain. Is it, after all, mere fancy that a ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... efforts day after day to induce him to root himself there still more firmly. Sometimes indeed she would try to press alternatives on Philip. But Philip would not have them. What with the physical and moral force that seemed to radiate from Anderson, and bring stimulus with them to the weaker life—and what with the lad's sick alienation for the moment from his ordinary friends and occupations, Anderson reigned supreme, often clearly to his own trouble and embarrassment. ...

— Lady Merton, Colonist • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... proud of its great men. But somehow, despite Mr. Frederic Harrison, our suburb leaves us cold. Our real life does not centre about our own parish at all. We circle about the great thoroughfares that radiate from Charing Cross, and the pivot of our lives is Piccadilly. Born to the Metropolis, we cannot narrow our minds to a district, nor to parish give up what was meant for London. We refuse to become provincials. We do not even know that we boast of a ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... in length, they must neither be impracticably long nor, on the other hand, too much cut up, lest the silky effect be partly lost. These stitches lie close together and in parallel lines; the chief difference between satin and several other closely allied stitches being that these others may radiate or vary in direction according to the space to be filled. The stitch is usually worked in oblique lines; stems, leaves, and petals would be treated in this way; sometimes it is worked regularly having regard to the warp and woof of the material; it would be treated thus when used in conjunction ...

— Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving • Grace Christie

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