RADIATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does radiate mean? 

• RADIATE (adjective)
  The adjective RADIATE has 2 senses:

1. arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center

2. having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies

  Familiarity information: RADIATE used as an adjective is rare.

• RADIATE (verb)
  The verb RADIATE has 8 senses:

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

4. have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

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

7. issue or emerge in rays or waves

8. spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate

  Familiarity information: RADIATE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RADIATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center

Synonyms:

radial; radiate; stellate

Context example:

many cities show a radial pattern of main highways

Similar:

symmetric; symmetrical (having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies

Similar:

compound (composed of more than one part)

• RADIATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they radiate    ... he / she / it radiates   
Past simple: radiated   
Past participle: radiated   
-ing form: radiating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send out rays or waves

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Context example:

The sun radiates heat

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

emit; give off; give out (give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

radiance; radiancy (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)

radiant (radiating or as if radiating light)

radiation (energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Send out real or metaphoric rays

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

She radiates happiness

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

breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

radiate; ray

Context example:

This plants radiate spines in all directions

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

extend; go; lead; pass; run (stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

radiation (the act of spreading outward from a central source)

radiation (a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

beam; glow; radiate; shine

Context example:

Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna

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

appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 5

Meaning:

Cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Context example:

The sun is radiating

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

cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)

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

blink; flash; twinkle; wink; winkle (gleam or glow intermittently)

gleam; glimmer (shine brightly, like a star or a light)

glow (emit a steady even light without flames)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

radiance (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)

radiant (radiating or as if radiating light)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

beam; glow; radiate; shine

Context example:

Her face radiated with happiness

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

experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

radiance (an attractive combination of good health and happiness)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Issue or emerge in rays or waves

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Heat radiated from the metal box

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

come forth; come out; egress; emerge; go forth; issue (come out of)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

radiant (radiating or as if radiating light)

radiator (any object that radiates energy)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

diversify; radiate

Context example:

The plants on this island diversified

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

alter; change; vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

radiation (the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats)

 Context examples 

A laser in which light is emitted by a fluorescent organic dye and which can be tuned to radiate at any of a wide range of frequencies.

(Dye Laser, NCI Thesaurus)

Hot Jupiters are large by planet standards, and they radiate more light than cooler planets.

(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)

Using an improved model of how energy would flow throughout the planet and radiate back into space, researchers find that the night side of the planet is not as cool as previously thought.

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)

The cells have broad, non-tapering processes radiating towards a central blood vessel.

(Astroblastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

The process in which radiated energy is partially or completely retained in the matter which it traverses.

(Energy Absorption, NCI Thesaurus)

Being extremely hot, the planet radiates a lot of infrared light, and Spitzer is an infrared telescope.

(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)

He rose and showed a double-radiating disc round the keyhole.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is characterized by a severe and rapid onset of symptoms that may include chest pain, often radiating to the left arm and left side of the neck, dyspnea, sweating, and palpitations.

(Acute Myocardial Infarction, NCI Thesaurus)

This study uncovered fascinating mechanisms, including genetic duplications and acquisition of genes from other organisms, that enabled red algae to radiate throughout the world's oceans.

(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)

A non-invasive imaging method that uses a thermal sensitive camera to capture a digital image based on heat radiating from the body.

(Computerized Thermal Imaging, NCI Thesaurus)