radiate
/'reidiit/
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Verb:
- To emit energy, light, or heat in the form of rays or waves: To send out energy from a central point.
- To extend or spread outward from a central point: To diverge or branch out in lines from a common center.
- To show or express a strong positive feeling or quality clearly and powerfully: To project an emotion, vitality, or characteristic from oneself.
Adjective:
- Having parts arranged like rays around a center; radiating: Characterized by a radial or star-like pattern.
Examples of Usage
Verb:
- The sun radiates heat and light. (The sun emits heat and light.)
- Happiness radiated from her smile. (Her smile powerfully expressed happiness.)
- The main roads radiate from the city center. (The main roads spread outward from the city center.)
Adjective:
- The flower has a radiate head with white petals. (The flower has a head with petals arranged like rays.)
- The city's radiate street plan makes navigation easy. (The city's street plan, with roads spreading from a center, makes navigation easy.)
Advanced Usage
- "to radiate confidence": To project a strong sense of self-assurance.
- Even during the crisis, the leader radiated confidence.
- "to radiate outwards": To spread out in all directions from a source or epicenter.
- The shockwaves from the explosion radiated outwards.
Variants and Related Words
- Radiation (n): The process of emitting energy as waves or particles. Also, the energy emitted.
- Exposure to high levels of radiation is dangerous.
- Radiant (adj): Shining brightly; emitting light or heat. Also, showing great joy, love, or health.
- She looked radiant on her wedding day.
- Radiator (n): A device that heats a room by radiating warmth, or a device in a vehicle that cools the engine.
- The old radiator clanked as it warmed up.
Synonyms
- Emit: To send out (light, heat, sound, etc.).
- Emanate: To flow out, issue, or proceed from a source (often used for abstract things like feelings).
- Beam: To emit or transmit, especially light or a radio signal; also, to smile radiantly.
- Glow: To emit a steady, warm, and often subdued light; to show a warm color or expression.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(Note: "Radiate" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. The sense of spreading out is often conveyed by "radiate from" or "radiate out.") - Radiate from: To have a source or origin at a specific point. - All the paths radiate from the old oak tree.
Related Idioms
- Radiate with (joy/health/pride): To be visibly full of a positive quality.
- After winning the championship, the whole team radiated with pride.
Adjective
- having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies
- arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
- radial symmetry
- a starlike or stellate arrangement of petals
- many cities show a radial pattern of main highways
Verb
- spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate
- The plants on this island diversified
- issue or emerge in rays or waves
- Heat radiated from the metal box
- 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
- cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays
- The sun is radiating
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna
- extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
- spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel
- This plants radiate spines in all directions
- send out real or metaphoric rays
- She radiates happiness
- send out rays or waves
- The sun radiates heat