radiate
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
ecology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin radiātus, perfect passive participle of radiō (“to radiate, furnish with spokes, give out rays, radiate, shine”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from radius (“a spoke, ray”).
Inflected forms:
form: radiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: radiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: radiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: radiated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more radiate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most radiate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: radiates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
Oban is not a terminus; its routes radiate by sea, rail and road.
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.
gloss: To emit rays or waves.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The stove radiates heat.
gloss: To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The heat radiates from a stove.
Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes.
She raised her head, and carefully opened her eyes again, staring directly into the orange glow radiating through the thick glass.
gloss: To illuminate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
pos: verb
gloss: To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Slim, sensual Richard Hell radiates a commanding coolness.
gloss: To spread into new habitats, migrate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To broadcast by radio.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Programmes marked thus will be radiated by Droitwich, but not by London and North National transmitters.
gloss: Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
pos: adj
examples: a radiate crystal
gloss: Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture; (heraldry) radiant.
pos: adj
examples: […] 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[…]
On a wreath of the colors argent and tenné four lightning flashes barbed radiate pilewise of the first, a Roman helm or garnished gules.
gloss: Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
pos: adj
gloss: Consisting of a disc in which the florets are tubular.
pos: adj
gloss: Having radial symmetry, like a sea star.
pos: adj
gloss: Belonging to the Radiata.
pos: adj
gloss: One of the Radiata.
pos: noun
Related words: radial
radiation
radiative
radio
radius
ray
Derived words: corradiate
radiator
reradiate
x-radiate
eradiate
biradiate
hexaradiate
multiradiate
nonradiate
octoradiate
pauciradiate
pentaradiate
quadriradiate
radiately
radiateness
radiatiform
semiradiate
sexradiate
subradiate
tetraradiate
triradiate
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