Radiate

Definitions: Radiate

Radiate

Verb

1. Send out rays or waves; "The sun radiates heat".

2. Send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness".

3. Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiates spines in all directions".

4. Esp. of the complexion: show a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna".

5. Cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays; "The sun is radiating".

6. Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness".

7. Issue or emerge in rays or waves; "Heat readiated from the metal box".

Date "radiate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Language	When sound is radiated from a source in free field, the spherical sound wave moves at about 1, 100 ft. per second. Source: European Union. (references)
Medicine	Of structures, characterized by radial symmetry. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Radiate

Synonyms: beam (v), emit light (v), glow (v), ray (v), shine (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Divergence	Verb: diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse; deviate; part; (separate).
Preservation	Embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband; (store).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Music	Radiate (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe	Douglas Adams	Ford would continue to smile at it, his eyes would soften and shine, and he would seem to radiate a deep and universal love, a love which reached out to embrace all of creation.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	We feel it burn even in the marrow of our bones, and we see it radiate even to the depths of the sky.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The pain may be localized in the lower back or may consist of sharp, shooting sensations that radiate down the legs or arms or around the torso. (references)
Economic History	Uganda	Most radiate from Kampala. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Radiate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 62.35% of the time. "Radiate" is used about 85 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	62.35%	53	46,657
Lexical Verb (base form)	31.76%	27	66,962
Noun (singular)	5.88%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	85	N/A

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "radiate": Radiate-veined.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "radiate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrezor (radial, Ray), rrezatues (radiant), rrezatoj (beam, emit, irradiate, Ray), përhap (bruit, delate, develop, diffuse, dilate, disseminate, distribute, introduce, let out, permeate, promulgate, propagate, slop, spread, start, Ted, transmit), në formë rrezesh, lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter). (various references)

Arabic		‏لمع (beam, blaze, buff, burnish, coruscate, dazzle, enamel, flare, flash, furbish, gleam, glisten, glitter, polish, rub up, shine, sparkle), ‏تألق (blaze, brilliance, brilliancy, dazzle, effulgence, glint, glitter, glory, irradiate, luminosity, magnificence, outshine, radiance, ray, refulgence, scintillate, shine, shine through, sparkle, star, vivacity), ‏تشعشع, ‏تشعب (bisect, branch, calve, diverge, divergence, fork, offshoot, ramification, ramify, split, split up), ‏سطع (brighten, brighten up, glare, irradiate, lighten), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), ‏أطلق أشعة, ‏أشع (beam, eradiate, irradiate, ray), ‏أشرق (brighten, irradiate, rise, shone), ‏شعاعي (radial). (various references)

Bulgarian		радиален (radial), лъчист (effulgent, irradiant, luminous, radial, radiant), пускам лъчи, излъчващ (emissive, radiant, radiative), излъчвам се, излъчвам (beam, discharge, eradiate, exhale, exude, give off, give out, irradiate, ooze, put out, reek, respire, scintillate, send out, shed, throw up), излизам от една точка. (various references)

Chinese		�"�热 (Exothermic, Radiated, Radiating). (various references)

Czech		zářit (beam, blaze, eradiate, flash, fulgurate, glare, glean, lighten, shine, sparkle), svítit (burn, glow, shine), sálat (blaze down, emanate, give off), šířit (diffuse, disseminate, retail, widen). (various references)

Danish		udstraalende (radial, solar), straaleformet (radial, solar), straaleagtig (radial, solar). (various references)

Dutch		uitstralen (emit), stralen (abort, blasting, fail, grit blasting, lines of wave propagation, miscarry, orthogonals, wave rays). (various references)

Esperanto		radii, trakti per radioterapio. (various references)

Farsi		پرتوافکندن (Beam, Shaft), متشعشع شدن , تابیدن (Glint, Glow, Shine, Stoke, Sun, Twist), شعاع افکندن . (various references)

Finnish		säteittäinen (radial, radiatus), säteillä (beam), sädehtiä (emit rays), hohtaa (gleam, shimmer, shine), heijastaa (reflect, throw back). (various references)

French		rayonner. (various references)

German		strahlen (beam, blasting, blaze, brightness, brilliance, glare, gleam, glow, grin, grit blast technique, grit blasting, grit-blasting, irradiate, radiance, radiancies, ray, resplendence, sand blasting, sand-blasting, shine, shot blasting, sparkle, spouts, steel grit blasting, to beam, to irradiate), ausstrahlen (broadcast, diffuse, emanate, emit, emits, extend, give off, irradiate, pipe, ray, send, send forth, send out, spread, to emanate, to emits, to ray, transmit), abstrahlen (emit). (various references)

Greek		ακτινοβολώ (beam, eradiate, glisten, glitter, irradiate, radiative, shine, twinkle). (various references)

Hebrew		לקרון (beam, shine), לזרוח (bloom, dawn, glow, rise, shine). (various references)

Hungarian		sugárzik (to beam, to glow, to radiate), sugároz (beam, broadcast, eradiate, radiocast, to beam, to diffuse, to emit, to relay, to transmit, transmit), sugár alakú, árad (flood, mill about, to be in spate, to diffuse, to emanate, to exude, to rush, to surge). (various references)

Icelandic		ljóma af, geisla. (various references)

Indonesian		mencorong (glare, shine), mencahayakan, membinar, memancarkan (effuse, exude, spout). (various references)

Italian		irradiare (beam, irradiate, spread out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		分かれ出る (to branch out, to diverge, to radiate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		わかれでる (to branch out, to diverge, to radiate). (various references)

Korean		발광하십시�". (various references)

Manx		goulraghey (irradiate, irradiation, radiating), goulragh (beaming, shining), gahghey (irridiance, radiation, sting), gahagh (irradiant, pronged, venomous, venomous as look). (various references)

Pig Latin		adiateray.(various references)

Portuguese		raiado (crease, furrowed, lined, streaked, streaky, stripe, striped, veined, veiny), radiar (broadcast, radiocast, Ray), radiado (broadcast), radiário, irradiar‐se, irradiar (Emm, eradiation, irradiate, Ray), iluminar (beacon, burn, clear, enlighten, glower, illuminate, illumine, irradiate, lamp, light, lighten, limn, post meridiem, relume), disseminar (disseminate, promulgate, scatter, sow), disposto em raios (radial), difundir-se em raios, difundir (blow, broadcast, diffuse, disseminated, generalize, propagate, publish, send). (various references)

Romanian		radiat (radiated, rayed), radial (radial, radially), radia (beam, glow, kindle, Ray, strike out), rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, Dot, emit, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, propagate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), strãluci (beam, blaze, coruscate, dazzle, flame, flare, flash, glance, glare, gleam, glisten, glitter, glow, irradiate, light, scintillate, shine, sparkle, star), iradia (irradiate). (various references)

Russian		расходиться радиусами, лучеобразный, лучистый (lambent, radial, radiant, starry), исходить (emanate), излучающий (emissive, radiative). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zračiti radošću, zračiti (emanate light, eradiate, shine). (various references)

Spanish		radiar (Ray). (various references)

Swedish		stråla (beam), utstråla (beam, emit), sprida (bestrew, circulate, cirkulate, deploy, diffuse, disject, disperse, distribute, emit, hawk about, proliferate, propagate, put about, send out, shed, sprawl, spread, stagger). (various references)

Thai		แผ่รังสี (ทางฟิสิกส์), แส�"งความรู้สึก, ทำให้กระจายออกจากจุ�"ศูนย์กลาง, กระจายออกจากจุ�"ศูนย์กลาง. (various references)

Turkish		yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, emit, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), yayın yapmak (beam, broadcast, relay, send), saçmak (besprinkle, bestrew, broadcast, disseminate, distribute, eradiate, irradiate, lash out on, scatter, sow, spill, spit, splutter, sprinkle, strew, throw out), neşe saçmak (shine out), bir merkezden yayılmak, bir merkezden yayılan, ışınlı, ışın yaymak (eradiate, gleam, Ray, ray out), ışımak (beam, blaze, flare, gleam, light, light up, Ray, shine, sparkle), ışık saçmak (beam, burn, flare, irradiate, light, light up, lighten, Ray, shine, sparkle). (various references)

Turkmen		parlamak. (various references)

Ukranian		сяяти (beam, blaze, burn, coruscate, flame, glitter, shine), вирпомінюватися, випромінювати (beam, emit, eradiate, irradiate, send out, shoot), променистий (beaming, effulgent, lambent, radiant, starlight, starry), поширювати (distribute, expand, extend, generalize, intend, noise, outstretch, promulgate, propagate, push, put about, retail, set about, shed, sow, spread, vend, widen). (various references)

Vietnamese		xoè ra (patulous, spokewise), toả ra (emissive). (various references)

Welsh		pelydru (beam, gleam), pefrio (sparkle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	excandescit. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "radiate": radiated, radiately, radiates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "radiate": eradiate, irradiate, reradiate, triradiate. (additional references)
	Words containing "radiate": eradiated, eradiates, irradiated, irradiates, nonirradiated, reradiated, reradiates, unirradiated. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Radiate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Braidotti, gradiate, Kadizade, Raddatz, radiante, radiata, radicata, Radikale, radite, Raiyat, Ratjada, rdinate, redate, Reddita, Redgate, Redmate, Rgdata, rodiaei, rudite, Rudyayev, rwandaise, Tradate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "radiate" (pronounced rā"dēā't)
6	r ā" d ē ā' t	irradiate.
4	-d ē ā' t	mediate, repudiate.
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, excoriate, expatriate, expiate, expropriate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, infuriate, ingratiate, initiate, misappropriate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, permeate, recreate, renegotiate, renunciate, repatriate, retaliate, substantiate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: airdate, tiaraed.
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-i-r-t"
	-1 letter: airted, tirade.
	-2 letters: aider, aired, atria, dater, deair, derat, irade, irate, rated, reata, redia, retia, riata, tared, terai, tiara, tired, trade, tread, triad, tried.
	-3 letters: adit, aide, airt, area, aria, arid, dare, dart, data, date, dear, diet, dire, dirt, dita, dite, drat, edit, idea, ired, raia, raid, rate, read, ride, rite, tare, tear, tide, tied, tier, tire, trad.
	-4 letters: aid, air, ait, are, art, ate, die, dit, ear, eat, era, eta, ire, rad, rat, red, rei, ret, ria, rid, tad, tae, tar, tea, ted, tie.
	-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, ai, ar, at, de, ed, er, et, id, it, re, ta, ti.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-i-r-t"
	+1 letter: airdates, dataries, eradiate, lariated, radiated, radiates, radicate, variated.
	+2 letters: acierated, andradite, apartheid, aspirated, attainder, carinated, diametral, disparate, dramatise, dramatize, eradiated, eradiates, eradicate, irradiate, marinated, radiately, radiative, radicated, radicates, reradiate, tragedian, trailhead, travailed.
	+3 letters: andradites, animadvert, antheridia, antitrades, apartheids, arbitraged, arbitrated, aromatized, asteriated, asteroidal, attainders, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, brachiated, calibrated, caryatides, deaerating, deaeration, deracinate, desiderata, discarnate, divaricate, dramatised, dramatises, dramatized, dramatizes, eradiating, eradicated, eradicates, eradicator, eupatridae, fabricated, gravitated, guarantied, headwaiter, incarnated, irradiated, irradiates, marginated, paediatric, readapting, reanimated, reattained, reradiated, reradiates, retaliated, revalidate, smaragdite, stravaiged, taradiddle, tardigrade, tragedians, trailheads, triradiate, variegated.
	+4 letters: abbreviated, admiralties, adumbrative, adversative, advertorial, alexandrite, alliterated, ameliorated, animadverts, antheridial, appertained, appreciated, arpeggiated, articulated, ascertained, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, candidature, cantharides, cardinalate, caricatured, deactivator, deaerations, debarkation, decapitator, declaration, declarative, degradation, degradative, demarcating, demarcation, depravation, deracinated, deracinates, desalinator, diametrical, diatessaron, disarmament, disparately, divaricated, divaricates, eradicating, eradication, eradicators, exhilarated, expatriated, hairbreadth, headwaiters, inaugurated, ingratiated, intradermal, irradiative, labradorite, lateralized, maidservant, mandarinate, mandataries, mandatories, naturalised, naturalized, paediatrics, parasitised, parasitized, plantigrade, preadapting, preadaptive, quarantined, radioactive, radiotracer, reactivated, readability, redactional, repatriated, reradiating, reradiation, retardation, revalidated, revalidates, smaragdites, standardise, standardize, straitlaced, taradiddles, tardigrades, tarradiddle, tearstained, trapezoidal, traumatised, traumatized, unaspirated.
	+5 letters: accreditable, achromatized, administrate, adulterating, adulteration, adversatives, advertorials, alexandrites, animadverted, antipredator, appropriated, approximated, bactericidal, bardolatries, candidatures, cardinalates, clairaudient, deactivators, debarkations, decapitators, declarations, deflagrating, deflagration, deflationary, degradations, demarcations, denaturalize, denaturation, depravations, deracinating, deracination, derivational, desalinators, deuteranopia, diatessarons, disaggregate, disarmaments, distractable, distrainable, dramatizable, dramaturgies, drapeability, endoparasite, eradications, extraditable, fainthearted, fractionated, hairbreadths, hairsbreadth, handicrafter, hereditarian, incarcerated, intercalated, interstadial, labradorites, maidservants, mainstreamed, mandarinates, materialised, materialized, matriculated, melodramatic, multiwarhead, outbargained, overdramatic, parametrized, parasiticide, participated, pediatrician, plantigrades, prevaricated, quadrivalent, radiotherapy, radiotracers, ratiocinated, rationalised, rationalized, reacquainted, recalibrated, reincarnated, reradiations, retardations, revaccinated, revalidating, revalidation, standardised, standardises, standardized, standardizes, tarradiddles, trademarking, tradescantia, triangulated, uncalibrated, undramatized, unirradiated, valetudinary, withdrawable.
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