radiate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

   radiate
         adj 1: arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common
                  center; "radial symmetry"; "a starlike or stellate
                  arrangement of petals"; "many cities show a radial
                  pattern of main highways" [syn: {radial}, {stellate},
                  {radiate}]
         2: having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of
            daisies
         v 1: send out rays or waves; "The sun radiates heat"
         2: send out real or metaphoric rays; "She radiates happiness"
         3: extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward
            towards a center; "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel";
            "This plants radiate spines in all directions" [syn:
            {radiate}, {ray}]
         4: have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or
            pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" [syn:
            {glow}, {beam}, {radiate}, {shine}]
         5: cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays; "The sun is
            radiating"
         6: experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good
            health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy";
            "Her face radiated with happiness" [syn: {glow}, {beam},
            {radiate}, {shine}]
         7: issue or emerge in rays or waves; "Heat radiated from the
            metal box"
         8: spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate;
            "The plants on this island diversified" [syn: {diversify},
            {radiate}]

English Dictionary: radiate	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rat-tat n a series of short sharp taps (as made by strokes on a drum or knocks on a door) Synonym(s): rat-a-tat-tat, rat-a-tat, rat-tat
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ratitae n used in former classifications to include all ratite bird orders Synonym(s): Ratitae, superorder Ratitae
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ratite n flightless birds having flat breastbones lacking a keel for attachment of flight muscles: ostriches; cassowaries; emus; moas; rheas; kiwis; elephant birds Synonym(s): ratite, ratite bird, flightless bird Antonym(s): carinate, carinate bird, flying bird
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
raw data n unanalyzed data; data not yet subjected to analysis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
read-out n the output of a computer in readable form [syn: readout, read-out] the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device Synonym(s): readout, read-out an electronic device the displays information is a visual form Synonym(s): readout, read-out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
readout n the output of a computer in readable form [syn: readout, read-out] the information displayed or recorded on an electronic device Synonym(s): readout, read-out an electronic device the displays information is a visual form Synonym(s): readout, read-out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red heat n the heat or the color of fire [syn: fieriness, {red heat}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red hot n a frankfurter served hot on a bun [syn: hotdog, {hot dog}, red hot]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red tide n seawater that is discolored by large numbers of certain dinoflagellates that produce saxitoxin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
red-hot adj having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" Synonym(s): juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous newest or most recent; "news hot off the press"; "red-hot information" Synonym(s): hot, red-hot characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues" Synonym(s): red- hot, sizzling glowing red with heat very fast; capable of quick response and great speed; "a hot sports car"; "a blistering pace"; "got off to a hot start"; "in hot pursuit"; "a red-hot line drive" Synonym(s): blistering, hot, red-hot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
redhead n someone who has red hair [syn: redhead, redheader, red-header, carrottop] North American diving duck with a grey-and-black body and reddish-brown head Synonym(s): redhead, Aythya americana black-and-white North American woodpecker having a red head and neck Synonym(s): redheaded woodpecker, redhead, Melanerpes erythrocephalus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
redwood n the soft reddish wood of either of two species of sequoia trees either of two huge coniferous California trees that reach a height of 300 feet; sometimes placed in the Taxodiaceae Synonym(s): sequoia, redwood
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ride out v hang on during a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm" Synonym(s): last out, stay, ride out, outride
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
root out v pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" Synonym(s): uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" Synonym(s): uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rooted adj absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment" Synonym(s): frozen(p), rooted(p), stock-still
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rotate v turn on or around an axis or a center; "The Earth revolves around the Sun"; "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire" Synonym(s): revolve, go around, rotate exchange on a regular basis; "We rotate the lead soprano every night" perform a job or duty on a rotating basis; "Interns have to rotate for a few months" cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle" Synonym(s): rotate, circumvolve turn outward; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" Synonym(s): turn out, splay, spread out, rotate plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession; "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rotted adj damaged by decay; hence unsound and useless; "rotten floor boards"; "rotted beams"; "a decayed foundation" Synonym(s): decayed, rotten, rotted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rout out v get or find by searching; "What did you rout out in the library?" Synonym(s): rout up, rout out force or drive out; "The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M." Synonym(s): rout out, drive out, force out, rouse cause to flee; "rout out the fighters from their caves" Synonym(s): rout, rout out, expel
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
rutted adj full of ruts; "rutty farm roads" Synonym(s): rutted, rutty
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Radiate \Ra"di*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Radiated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Radiating}.] [L. radiatus, p. p. of radiare to furnish with spokes or rays, to radiate, fr. radius. See {Radius}, {Ray} a divergent line.] 1. To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine. Virtues shine more clear In them [kings], and radiant like the sun at noon. --Howell. 2. To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat. Light radiates from luminous bodies directly to our eyes. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Radiate \Ra"diate\, v. t. 1. To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate* heat. 2. To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Radiate \Ra"diate\, a. [L. radiatus, p. p.] 1. Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated; as, a radiate* crystal. 2. (Bot.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc. 3. (Zo[94]l.) Belonging to the Radiata.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Radiate \Ra"di*ate\, n. (Zo[94]l.) One of the Radiata.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Raid \Raid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Raided}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Raiding}.] To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rate \Rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rating}.] 1. To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree. To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible. --South. You seem not high enough your joys to rate. --Dryden. 2. To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. 3. To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension. 4. To ratify. [Obs.] [bd]To rate the truce.[b8] --Chapman. {To rate a chronometer}, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation depended thereon. Syn: To value; appraise; estimate; reckon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Struthiones \[d8]Stru`thi*o"nes\, n. pl. [NL. See {Struthio}.] (Zo[94]l.) (a) A division, or order, of birds, including only the African ostriches. (b) In a wider sense, an extensive group of birds including the ostriches, cassowaries, emus, moas, and allied birds incapable of flight. In this sense it is equivalent to {Ratit[91]}, or {Drom[91]ognath[91]}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ratite \Rat"ite\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the Ratit[91]. -- n. One of the Ratit[91].
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rat \Rat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ratted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ratting}.] 1. In English politics, to desert one's party from interested motives; to forsake one's associates for one's own advantage; in the trades, to work for less wages, or on other conditions, than those established by a trades union. Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. --De Quincey. 2. To catch or kill rats.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redhead \Red"head`\ (-h?d`), n. 1. A person having red hair. 2. (Zo[94]l.) (a) An American duck ({Aythya Americana}) highly esteemed as a game bird. It is closely allied to the canvasback, but is smaller and its head brighter red. Called also {red-headed duck}. {American poachard}, {grayback}, and {fall duck}. See Illust. under {Poachard}. (b) The red-headed woodpecker. See {Woodpecker}. 3. (Bot.) A kind of milkweed ({Asclepias Curassavica}) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Red-hot \Red"-hot`\ (-h?t`), a. Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redoubt \Redoubt"\ (r?dout"), n. [F. redoute, fem., It. ridotto, LL. reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. r[82]duit, also fr. LL. reductus. See {Reduce}, and cf. {Reduct}, {R[82]duit}, {Ridotto}.] (Fort.) (a) A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected for a temporary purpose, and without flanking defenses, -- used esp. in fortifying tops of hills and passes, and positions in hostile territory. (b) In permanent works, an outwork placed within another outwork. See F and i in Illust. of {Ravelin}. [Written also {redout}.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redweed \Red"weed`\ (r[ecr]d"w[emac]d`), n. (Bot.) The red poppy ({Papaver Rh[d2]as}). --Dr. Prior.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redwithe \Red"withe`\ (r?d"w?th`), n. (Bot.) A west Indian climbing shrub ({Combretum Jacquini}) with slender reddish branchlets.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redwood \Red"wood`\ (-w[oocr]d`), n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree ({Sequoia sempervirens}) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See {Sequoia}. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from {Pterocarpus santalinus}, {C[91]salpinia Sappan}, and several other trees. Note: The redwood of Andaman is {Pterocarpus dalbergioides}; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of {Erythoxylum}; that of Brazil, the species of {Humirium}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reeded \Reed"ed\, a. 1. Civered with reeds; reedy. --Tusser. 2. Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bicarbureted \Bicar"buret`ed\ or -retted \-ret`ted\, a. [Pref. bi- + carbureted.] (Chem.) Containing two atoms or equivalents of carbon in the molecule. [Obs. or R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rid \Rid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rid} [or] {Ridded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ridding}.] [OE. ridden, redden, AS. hreddan to deliver, liberate; akin to D. & LG. redden, G. retten, Dan. redde, Sw. r[84]dda, and perhaps to Skr. [?]rath to loosen.] 1. To save; to rescue; to deliver; -- with out of. [Obs.] Deliver the poor and needy; rid them out of the hand of the wicked. --Ps. lxxxii. 4. 2. To free; to clear; to disencumber; -- followed by of. [bd]Rid all the sea of pirates.[b8] --Shak. In never ridded myself of an overmastering and brooding sense of some great calamity traveling toward me. --De Quincey. 3. To drive away; to remove by effort or violence; to make away with; to destroy. [Obs.] I will red evil beasts out of the land. --Lev. xxvi. 6. Death's men, you have rid this sweet young prince! --Shak. 4. To get over; to dispose of; to dispatch; to finish. [R.] [bd]Willingness rids way.[b8] --Shak. Mirth will make us rid ground faster than if thieves were at our tails. --J. Webster. {To be rid of}, to be free or delivered from. {To get rid of}, to get deliverance from; to free one's self from.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ridotto \Ri*dot"to\, v. i. To hold ridottos. [R.] --J. G. Cooper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Riot \Ri"ot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rioted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rioting}.] [OF. rioter; cf. OD. ravotten.] 1. To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess. Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law. --Daniel. No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. --Pope. 2. (Law) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See {Riot}, n., 3. --Johnson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rooted \Root"ed\, a. Having taken root; firmly implanted; fixed in the heart. [bd]A rooted sorrow.[b8] --Shak. -- {Root"edly}, adv. -- {Root"ed*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Root \Root\ (r[oomac]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rooted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rooting}.] 1. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. In deep grounds the weeds root deeper. --Mortimer. 2. To be firmly fixed; to be established. If any irregularity chanced to intervene and to cause misappehensions, he gave them not leave to root and fasten by concealment. --Bp. Fell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rotate \Ro"tate\, a. [L. rotatus, p. p. of rotare to turn round like a wheel, fr. rota wheel. See {Rotary}, and cf. {Roue}.] Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rotated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rotating}.] 1. To turn, as a wheel, round an axis; to revolve. 2. To perform any act, function, or operation in turn, to hold office in turn; as, to rotate in office.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rotate \Ro"tate\, v. i. 1. To cause to turn round or revolve, as a wheel around an axle. 2. To cause to succeed in turn; esp., to cause to succeed some one, or to be succeeded by some one, in office. [Colloq.] [bd]Both, after a brief service, were rotated out of office.[b8] --Harper's Mag.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rote \Rote\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Roted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Roting}.] To learn or repeat by rote. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rot \Rot\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rotting}.] [OE. rotien, AS. rotian; akin to D. rotten, Prov. G. rotten, OHG. rozz[?]n, G. r[94]sten to steep flax, Icel. rotna to rot, Sw. ruttna, Dan. raadne, Icel. rottin rotten. [root]117. Cf. {Ret}, {Rotten}.] 1. To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. --Pope. 2. Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt. Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. --Macaulay. Rot, poor bachelor, in your club. --Thackeray. Syn: To putrefy; corrupt; decay; spoil.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rout \Rout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Routed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Routing}.] To break the ranks of, as troops, and put them to flight in disorder; to put to rout. That party . . . that charged the Scots, so totally routed and defeated their whole army, that they fied. --Clarendon. Syn: To defeat; discomfit; overpower; overthrow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rowdydow \Row"dy*dow\, n. Hubbub; uproar. [Vulgar]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ruddied \Rud"died\, a. Made ruddy or red.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rudity \Ru"di*ty\, n. [L. ruditas ignorance, fr. rudis rude, illiterate.] Rudeness; ignorance. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Rut \Rut\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Rutted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rutting}.] To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Redwood, MS Zip code(s): 39156 Redwood, NY Zip code(s): 13679 Redwood, OR (CDP, FIPS 61250) Location: 42.42220 N, 123.38614 W Population (1990): 3702 (1643 housing units) Area: 12.8 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Ridott, IL (village, FIPS 64044) Location: 42.29752 N, 89.47732 W Population (1990): 156 (61 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61067
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
raw data {data}
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Red Hat A distribution of {Linux}. {Home (http://www.redhat.com/)}. (1996-12-21)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
routed /root dee/ Route Daemon. A program which runs under {4.2BSD} {Unix} systems and derivatives to propagate routes among machines on a {local area network}, using the {Routing Information Protocol}. See also {gated}. (2002-07-31)