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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



... or Monumental Park, is in the business centre of the city, about 1/2 M. from the lake and the same distance east of the Cuyahoga River. From this park the principal thoroughfares radiate. Euclid Ave., once famous for its private residences, but now the chief retail street of the city, begins at the southeast corner of the square. Cleveland's newest residence district is on the heights in the eastern part of ...
— The Greatest Highway in the World • Anonymous

... wore that flower of fleeting beauty which rests upon the features of the dead who die a painless death; light appeared to radiate ...
— Ursula • Honore de Balzac

... to wonder whether Bank Holiday was an altogether delightful institution. But the goat had no such doubts. Leaning against the boy who was taking it holiday-making, it tried very gently to climb and butt, and to play with its sulky fellow travellers. And as it did so it seemed to radiate a sort of poetry on everything: vague impressions of rocks, woods, hedges, the Alps, Italy, and Greece; mythology, of course, and that amusement of "jouer avec des chevres apprivoisees," which that great charmer ...
— Laurus Nobilis - Chapters on Art and Life • Vernon Lee

... Then we may see the etheric limb hanging down below the visible limb as a stocking. When we restore circulation and the etheric limb seeks to enter into place, an intense prickly sensation is felt, due to the fact that the little streams of force, which radiate all through the ether, seek to permeate the molecules of the limb and stir them into renewed vibration. When a person is drowning, the vital body also separates from the dense vehicle and the intense prickly pain incident to resuscitation is also ...
— The Rosicrucian Mysteries • Max Heindel

... me both—it's funny, the way those green ray-screens stick to the walls, instead of being spherical, as you'd expect ... should think they'd have to radiate from a center, and so be spherical," Brandon cogitated. "However, we've got nothing corkscrewy enough to go through them, so we'll have to stand by. We'll stay inside whenever possible, look on from outside when we must, but all the time picking up whatever information ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith


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