Radiate

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  • intransitive verb. To send out rays or waves.
  • intransitive verb. To issue or emerge in rays or waves.
  • intransitive verb. To extend in straight lines from or toward a center; diverge or converge like rays.
  • intransitive verb. To spread into new habitats and thereby diverge or diversify. Used of a group of organisms.
  • intransitive verb. To emit (light or energy) in rays or waves.
  • intransitive verb. To send or spread out from or as if from a center.
  • intransitive verb. To irradiate or illuminate (an object).
  • intransitive verb. To manifest in a glowing manner.
  • adjective. Having rays or raylike parts, as in the flower heads of daisies.
  • adjective. Characterized by radial symmetry.
  • adjective. Surrounded with rays.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To be directed, as rays, toward a common center: as, “spokes radiating to an axle.”
  • To issue and proceed in rays or straight lines from a point; spread directly outward from a center or nucleus, as the spokes of a wheel, heat and light, etc.
  • To emit rays; be radiant: as, a radiating body.
  • To spread in all directions from a central source or cause; proceed outward as from a focus to all accessible points.
  • To emit or send out in direct lines, as from a point or focus; hence, to cause to proceed or diverge in all directions, as from a source or cause; communicate by direct emanation: as, the sun radiates heat and light.
  • To furnish with rays; cause to have or to consist of rays; make radial.
  • Having a ray, rays, or ray-like parts; having lines or projections proceeding from a common center or surface; rayed: as, a radiate animal (a member of the Radiata); a radiate mineral (one with rayed crystals or fibers); a radiate flower-head.
  • Constituting a ray or rays; proceeding or extending outward from a center or focus; radiating: as, the radiate fibers of some minerals and plants; the radiate petals of a flower or florets of a head.
  • In numismatic and similar descriptions, represented with rays proceeding from it, as a head or bust: as, the head of the Emperor Caracalla, radiate; the head of Helios (the sun-god), radiate.
  • noun. A ray-like projection; a ray.
  • noun. A member of the Radiata, in any sense.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
  • intransitive verb. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.
  • transitive verb. To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points.
  • transitive verb. To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.
  • noun. One of the Radiata.
  • adjective. Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
  • adjective. Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.
  • adjective. Belonging to the Radiata.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
  • verb. To emit rays or waves.
  • verb. To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
  • verb. To illuminate.
  • verb. To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
  • verb. To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
  • verb. to spread into new habitats, migrate.
  • adjective. radiating from a center.
  • adjective. surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
  • adjective. having parts radiating from the center, such as the petals in many flowers.
  • adjective. having radial symmetry, such as a seastar.
  • noun. One of the Radiata.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. send out rays or waves
  • verb. issue or emerge in rays or waves
  • verb. extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
  • verb. spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate
  • verb. cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays
  • adjective. arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
  • verb. send out real or metaphoric rays
  • verb. experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
  • Word Usage
    "Slight ridges radiate from the shield to each point of the star, giving the star a beveled appearance."