radiate

Từ điển American Heritage Dictionary 4th

ra·di·ate (rāʹdē-āt')v. ra·di·at·ed, ra·di·at·ing, ra·di·atesv. intr.
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.v. tr.
1. To emit (light, for example) in or as if in rays.
2. To send or spread out from or as if from a center:
a cactus that radiates spines.
3. To irradiate or illuminate (an object).
4. To manifest in a glowing manner:
a leader who radiates confidence.adj. (-ĭt)
1. Botany. Having rays or raylike parts, as in the flower heads of daisies.
2. Biology. Characterized by radial symmetry.
3. Surrounded with rays:
a radiate head on a coin. [Latin radiāre, radiāt-, to emit beams, from radius, ray.] raʹdi·a'tive adj.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  radial, stellate, diversify, glow, beam, shine, ray