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radiate
Part of speech: VerbTo send out in rays; as, the sun radiates light and heat.
Part of speech: VerbTo issue forth in rays; as, heat and light radiate from the sun.
Part of speech: AdjectiveHaving rays.
Usage examples "radiate":- As I spoke, we observed the pirates scatter over the beach, and radiate, as if from a centre, towards the woods and along shore. - "The Coral Island", R.M. Ballantyne.
- Mill sums up as follows the results of his experiments: It appears that the instances in which much dew is deposited, which are very various, agree in this, and, so far as we are able to observe, in this only, that they either radiate heat rapidly or conduct it slowly: qualities between which there is no other circumstance of agreement than that by virtue of either, the body tends to lose heat from the surface more rapidly than it can be restored from within. - "Logic, Inductive and Deductive", William Minto.
- There were several others, but they kept to themselves, seeming to radiate an aura of exclusiveness. - "The Players", Everett B. Cole.