Radiate

English Meaning

To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.

1. To send out rays or waves.
2. To issue or emerge in rays or waves: Heat radiated from the stove.
3. To extend in straight lines from or toward a center; diverge or converge like rays: Spokes radiate from a wheel hub.
4. Ecology To spread into new habitats and thereby diverge or diversify. Used of a group of organisms.
5. To emit (light, for example) in or as if in rays.
6. To send or spread out from or as if from a center: a cactus that radiates spines.
7. To irradiate or illuminate (an object).
8. To manifest in a glowing manner: a leader who radiates confidence.
9. Botany Having rays or raylike parts, as in the flower heads of daisies.
10. Biology Characterized by radial symmetry.
11. Surrounded with rays: a radiate head on a coin.