The Collaborative International Dictionary
Radiate \Ra"di*ate\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Radiated (r[=a]"d[i^]*[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Radiating.] [L. radiatus, p. p. of radiare to furnish with spokes or rays, to radiate, fr. radius ray. See Radius, Ray a divergent line.]
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To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and radiate like the sun at noon.
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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.
--Locke.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of radiate English)
WordNet
adj. diverging from a common point [syn: radiating(a)]
Usage examples of "radiating".
Perhaps, if women had the open privilege of selection, many a good fellow would be rescued from miserable isolation, and perhaps also many a noble woman whom chance, or a stationary position, or the inertia of the other sex, has left to bloom alone, and waste her sweetness on relations, would be the centre of a charming home, furnishing the finest spectacle seen in this uphill world --a woman exercising gracious hospitality, and radiating to a circle far beyond her home the influence of her civilizing personality.
With her hair given a sophisticated wave and combed back neatly she was radiating raw sex appeal.
Writhing on the floor, his body and brain useless appendages to a cruciform of horrific pain radiating through his body, Isozaki tried to scream through his locked jaws.
Fragments of coloured glass, radiating fanwise, a diadrom of feeling spreading out through my mind, its life-jacket lost.
Tawsar nor any of the other Wem within my emotive range are radiating feelings of hostility.
In three strides he was among them, and they ran radiating from his feet in all directions.
He could see well enough by infra red, and the amount of energy necessary to sustain his compact gianthood kept him constantly radiating.
He could see well enough by infrared, and the amount of energy necessary to sustain his compact gianthood kept him constantly radiating.
An astonishing change, however, swept over the infuriated mob in the Haram and throughout the radiating streets.
Every man in the Haram, the minarets, the arcade, and the radiating streets heard every word I said, gentlemen, as plainly as if I had spoken directly into his ear.
Each radiating facet was a hexahedron tapering to a point, and all were of different thicknesses and lengths.
She felt a frightening energy radiating from Hickey, a sort of survival desperation.
Before I could try to read the shame Kitth was radiating any more precisely, Vira turned back to me.
In the early-morning light you could sense Alice Waterss eyes radiating the spiritual intensity that for so long has startled and impressed her friends and admirers and has set her apart from other chefs, making her a kind of materfamilias to a generation of chefs ranging from Sally Clarke to Michel Courtalhac, in Paris.
The great cloud-barred disk of the sun stood just above a limitless expanse of tossing white-caps--so to speak--a billowy chaos of massy mountain domes and peaks draped in imperishable snow, and flooded with an opaline glory of changing and dissolving splendors, while through rifts in a black cloud-bank above the sun, radiating lances of diamond dust shot to the zenith.