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RADIATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies
Classified under:
Similar:
compound (composed of more than one part)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
Example:
many cities show a radial pattern of main highways
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
symmetric; symmetrical (having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
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 real or metaphoric rays
Example:
She radiates happiness
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "radiate" is one way to...):
breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate
Example:
The plants on this island diversified
Synonyms:
diversify; radiate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Issue or emerge in rays or waves
Example:
Heat radiated from the metal box
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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 4
Meaning:
Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
Example:
Her face radiated with happiness
Synonyms:
Classified under:
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 5
Meaning:
Cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays
Example:
The sun is radiating
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
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:
Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
Example:
Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna
Synonyms:
beam; glow; radiate; shine
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
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 7
Meaning:
Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
Example:
This plants radiate spines in all directions
Synonyms:
radiate; ray
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
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 8
Meaning:
Send out rays or waves
Example:
The sun radiates heat
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
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)
Context examples:
In front, amid radiating lines of poplars, lay the riverside townlet of Cardillac—gray walls, white houses, and a feather of blue smoke.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A sensation similar to an electrical shock radiating from the back of the head down the spine as the neck is bent forward.
(Lhermitte's sign, NCI Dictionary)
A ring of smooth muscle consisting of circular and radiating fibers within the middle layer of the eye.
(Ciliary Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)
Symptoms include burning pain and paresthesias involving the ventral surface of the hand and fingers which may radiate proximally.
(Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The air above has to cool off, radiating its heat to space, before its density is greater than that of the hot, wet air below.
(Study Explains Saturn's Epic Tantrums, NASA)
Observing the same principle of widest distribution of weight, the dogs at the ends of their ropes radiated fan-fashion from the nose of the sled, so that no dog trod in another's footsteps.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
LRO's thermal radiometer, called Diviner, has taught scientists how much heat is radiating off the Moon’s surface, a critical factor in determining crater ages.
(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)
All that energy radiates into space in every direction, and the tiny fraction that hits Earth makes life possible.
(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)
As the dust heats up, it radiates infrared light.
(The Most Luminous Galaxy in Universe, NASA)
Along the way, this plasma somehow gets energized enough to strongly radiate light, forming two bright columns along the black hole’s axis of rotation.
(NuSTAR Probes Black Hole Jet Mystery, NASA)
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