radiate

Meanings

Verb

• To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
• To emit rays or waves.
• To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
• To illuminate.
• To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
• To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
• to spread into new habitats, migrate.

Adjective

• Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
• Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
• Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
• Consisting of a disc in which the florets are tubular.
• Having radial symmetry, like a seastar.
• Belonging to the Radiata.

Noun

• One of the Radiata.

Related

Similar words

• irradiate

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin radiatus, past participle of radiare, from radius.