IRRADIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irradiate mean? 

• IRRADIATE (verb)
  The verb IRRADIATE has 3 senses:

1. give spiritual insight to; in religion

2. cast rays of light upon

3. expose to radiation

  Familiarity information: IRRADIATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRRADIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they irradiate    ... he / she / it irradiates   
Past simple: irradiated   
Past participle: irradiated   
-ing form: irradiating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give spiritual insight to; in religion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

enlighten; irradiate

Hypernyms (to "irradiate" is one way to...):

prophesy; vaticinate (predict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cast rays of light upon

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "irradiate" is one way to...):

lighten; lighten up (become lighter)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

irradiation (a column of light (as from a beacon))

Sense 3

Meaning:

Expose to radiation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

irradiate; ray

Context example:

irradiate food

Hypernyms (to "irradiate" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "irradiate"):

bombard (direct high energy particles or radiation against)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

irradiation (the condition of being exposed to radiation)

 Context examples 

A vaccine consisting of irradiated human fetal lung fibroblasts (Medical Research Council 5 or MRC-5) transfected with autologous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)-derived DNA with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Autologous NSCLC DNA-Transfected Semi-Allogeneic Fibroblasts MRC-5 Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell-based cancer vaccine composed of autologous, irradiated dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with ovarian tumor cell lysate containing tumor associated antigens (TAAs) with potential immunostimulatory and antineoplastic activities.

(Autologous Ovarian Tumor Cell Lysate-Pulsed Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

An autologous cancer vaccine composed of lethally irradiated leukemia cells that are genetically modified to secrete the immunostimulatory cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.

(Autologous GM-CSF-Secreting Lethally Irradiated Leukemia Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon vaccination, the autologous GM-CSF-secreting lethally irradiated colorectal cancer cell vaccine releases GM-CSF.

(Autologous GM-CSF-secreting Lethally Irradiated Colorectal Cancer Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

A whole cell vaccine comprised of irradiated allogeneic renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities.

(Allogeneic Renal Cell Carcinoma Vaccine MGN1601, NCI Thesaurus)

CancerVax is an allogenic polyvalent vaccine composed of irradiated but viable cells from three melanoma cell lines and Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG).

(CancerVax, NCI Thesaurus)

The acquisition of images of an anatomic area that is being irradiated using radiotherapy beams and films as imaging media.

(Film Portal Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)

An autologous vaccine comprised of irradiated tumor cells obtained from the patient after surgery and it is administered along with the BCG vaccine.

(OncoVAX, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of spectroscopy that utilizes a laser beam to irradiate a sample containing particles in suspension, resulting in light scattering.

(Photon Correlation Spectroscopy, NCI Thesaurus)

A cell-based vaccine composed of irradiated tumor cells transduced with granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and CD40-ligand (CD40L) genes.

(GM.CD40L Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)