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Grammar : Verb
Spell : verb rey-dee-eyt; adjective rey-dee-it, -eyt
Phonetic Transcription : verb ˈreɪ diˌeɪt; adjective ˈreɪ di ɪt, -ˌeɪt

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Définition of radiate

Origin :
  • 1610s, "spread in all directions from a point," from Latin radiatus, past participle of radiare "to beam, shine, gleam; make beaming" (see radiation). Meaning "be radiant, give off rays (of light or heat)" is from 1704. Related: Radiated; radiates; radiating.
  • verb give off; scatter
Example sentences :
  • There was nothing the matter, only he had not yet learned to radiate.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • He just seems to radiate good will, and friendliness, and optimism wherever he goes.
  • Extract from : « Mixed Faces » by Roy Norton
  • The capacity of bodies to radiate and to absorb differ considerably.
  • Extract from : « Aether and Gravitation » by William George Hooper
  • There are three streets that radiate from it directly through the heart of the town.
  • Extract from : « Rollo in Rome » by Jacob Abbott
  • Yet everything about him seemed to be made up of kindness—to radiate comfort.
  • Extract from : « Children of the Desert » by Louis Dodge
  • He seemed to radiate an atmosphere which suffused her being.
  • Extract from : « Sister Carrie » by Theodore Dreiser
  • You notice that the rows all radiate from the centre, like spokes in a wheel.
  • Extract from : « The Secret Wireless » by Lewis E. Theiss
  • They radiate from the surface of the skin and reproduce a simulacrum, as it were, of the surface.
  • Extract from : « The Problems of Psychical Research » by Hereward Carrington
  • In fact, he seemed to radiate a curiously apprehensive aura.
  • Extract from : « The Blue Tower » by Evelyn E. Smith
  • Old fashioned, too, she was; but ante-bellum glory did not radiate from her as it did from the major.
  • Extract from : « Sixes and Sevens » by O. Henry

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