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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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"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

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— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith

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