Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as radiate

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Emitted, or sent forth, in rays or direct lines.
  • adjective Formed of, or arranged like, rays or radii; having parts or markings diverging, like radii, from a common center or axis
  • adjective (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Radiata.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of radiate.

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Examples

  • His expression radiated happiness and peace, his impenetrable smile telling the world, “I am the happiest man alive.”

    The Beauty of Love Laura Posada 2010

  • The amount of energy radiated from a given amount of cO2 can be calculated.

    Matthew Yglesias » Baby, It’s Cold Outside 2010

  • The amount of energy radiated from a given amount of cO2 can be calculated.

    Matthew Yglesias » Baby, It’s Cold Outside 2010

  • Beside her, a pore in the lipid membrane of the ark released a jet of bubbles, making the vessel sink slowly toward the floodlit harbor where a dozen other arks already clustered, docked to flexible tube chutes that radiated from the domes like glowing starfish arms.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • The amount of energy radiated from a given amount of cO2 can be calculated.

    Matthew Yglesias » Baby, It’s Cold Outside 2010

  • The church, as constructed, was square in plan [a rare centralized Gothic plan -- MGA], with nearly identical high bays that radiated from the crossing; the north and south bays were to serve as transepts, the east as a narthext and the west as the choir [below, in a drawing by the famous renderer Hugh Ferriss].

    Arthur Brown and St. Mark's, Seattle 2009

  • BN Veracruz was founded in 1519 by Hernán Cortés, on the Gulf of Mexico, in accordance with an urban layout model based on a grid system of streets and blocks which radiated from a central "plaza".

    Defending the sea and the land 2008

  • BN Veracruz was founded in 1519 by Hernán Cortés, on the Gulf of Mexico, in accordance with an urban layout model based on a grid system of streets and blocks which radiated from a central "plaza".

    Defending the sea and the land 2008

  • On his cue, the faithful prostrated themselves on the ground, in a vast succession of concentric circles that radiated from the Kaaba, an ancient cube draped in black silk embroidered with gold that looms in the center of the enclosure. next »

    Excerpt: The Siege of Mecca by Yaroslav Trofimov 2007

  • He knew the imprint of the power that radiated from the figure just as surely as he knew the danger of the fire's red glow.

    EXCERPT: The Blood King by Gail Z. Martin 2007

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