Radiating

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Radiate \Ra"di*ate\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
     {Radiated} (r[=a]"d[i^]*[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Radiating}.] [L. radiatus, p. p. of radiare to furnish with
     spokes or rays, to radiate, fr. radius ray. See {Radius},
     {Ray} a divergent line.]
     1. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.


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              Virtues shine more clear
              In them [kings], and radiate like the sun at noon.
                                                    --Howell.
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     2. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to
        issue in rays, as light or heat.
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              Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our
              eyes.                                 --Locke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  radiating
       adj : diverging from a common point [syn: {radiating(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "radiating":
     approaching, asymptotic, centripetal, centrolineal, concurrent,
     confluent, confocal, connivent, converging, focal, meeting,
     mutually approaching, radial, radiate, radiated, radiative, rayed,
     tangent, tangential, uniting