radiate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin radiatus, past participle of radiare (“to radiate, furnish with spokes, give out rays, radiate, shine”), from radius (“a spoke, ray”).
Pronunciation
edit- (verb) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪdieɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /ˈɹeɪdieɪt/, /ˈɹeɪdi.ət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editradiate (third-person singular simple present radiates, present participle radiating, simple past and past participle radiated)
- To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
- 1948 November and December, “Crewe M.P.D. to be Modernised”, in Railway Magazine, page 372:
- Crewe North Motive Power Depot is to be modernised completely. This includes the provision of a new coaling plant, ash handling plant, and two new locomotive sheds of the latest roundhouse type, each with 32 roads radiating from a 70-ft. dia. turntable.
- 1994, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates:
- Oban is not a terminus; its routes radiate by sea, rail and road.
- 2021 May 19, Philip Haigh, “Doncaster enhancements relying on DfT approval”, in RAIL, number 931, page 30:
- Doncaster is a rail hub in every sense. Passenger lines radiate in six directions, there are freight lines that bypass the station, extensive freight yards, a major works, and a rolling stock depot.
- (transitive) To emit rays or waves.
- The stove radiates heat.
- (intransitive) To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
- The heat radiates from a stove.
- 1706, John Locke, Elements of Natural Philosophy:
- Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes.
- 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 139:
- She raised her head, and carefully opened her eyes again, staring directly into the orange glow radiating through the thick glass.
- (transitive) To illuminate.
- To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
- (transitive) To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
- 1978 August 19, Harold Pickett, “New York, New York”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 8:
- Slim, sensual Richard Hell radiates a commanding coolness.
- (ecology, intransitive) To spread into new habitats, migrate.
Synonyms
edit- (to expose to radiation): irradiate
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editto emit rays or waves
to come out or proceed in rays
to illuminate
to expose to ionizing radiation
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to manifest in a glowing manner
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to spread into new habitats
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Adjective
editradiate (comparative more radiate, superlative most radiate)
- Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
- a radiate crystal
- Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture; (heraldry) radiant.
- 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, A. B. C. of Heraldry, page 240:
- […] and (2) the radiate or Eastern crown, usually five rays being shown. The see of Ely bears the apocryphal coat of St. Ethelreda: gules, three open crowns or. Azure, three open crowns or, are the arms of […]
- 2005, Rebecca R. Raines, Signal Corps, Department of the Army, page 117:
- On a wreath of the colors argent and tenné four lightning flashes barbed radiate pilewise of the first, a Roman helm or garnished gules.
- (botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
- (botany) Consisting of a disc in which the florets are tubular.
- (biology) Having radial symmetry, like a seastar.
- (zoology) Belonging to the Radiata.
Translations
edithaving parts radiating from the center
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having radial symmetry
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Noun
editradiate (plural radiates)
Related terms
editFurther reading
edit- “radiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “radiate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “radiate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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editEsperanto
editAdverb
editradiate
- present adverbial passive participle of radii
Italian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editradiate
Etymology 2
editVerb
editradiate
- inflection of radiare:
Etymology 3
editParticiple
editradiate f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editradiāte
Spanish
editVerb
editradiate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of radiar combined with te
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