Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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radiate

/ˈɹeɪdieɪt/ verb, adjective, noun

Forms radiates radiating radiated

  1. verb (intransitive) To extend, be sent or spread out from a center like radii.
  2. verb (transitive) To emit rays or waves. “The stove radiates heat.”
  3. verb (intransitive) To come out or proceed in rays or waves. “The heat radiates from a stove.”
  4. verb (transitive) To illuminate.
  5. verb (transitive) To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
  6. verb (transitive or intransitive with with, figuratively) To manifest in a glowing manner. “Her face radiated joy. Her face radiated with joy.”
  7. verb (intransitive, figuratively) To manifest itself in a glowing manner. “Joy radiated from her face.”
  8. verb (ecology, intransitive) To spread into new habitats, migrate.
  9. adjective Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated. “a radiate crystal”
  10. adjective Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture; (heraldry) radiant.
  11. adjective (botany) Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers.
  12. adjective (botany) Consisting of a disc in which the florets are tubular.
  13. adjective (biology) Having radial symmetry, like a sea star.
  14. adjective (zoology) Belonging to the Radiata.
  15. noun (zoology) One of the Radiata.

Synonyms

irradiate ray glow beam shine diversify radial stellate

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin radiātus, perfect passive participle of radiō (“to radiate, furnish with spokes, give out rays, radiate, shine”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from radius (“a spoke, ray”).

Learned borrowing from Latin radiātus (see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).

From a substantivation of the above adjective through the associated taxon's name (Radiata), see -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
  2. verb To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.
  3. verb To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points; as, to radiate heat.
  4. verb To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate. [R.]

Etymology [L. radiatus, p. p. of radiare to furnish with spokes or rays, to radiate, fr. radius. See Radius, Ray a divergent line.]

Etymology [L. radiatus, p. p.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “radiate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “radiate” (best matches first).