What is the meaning of radiate?

verb

• Send out rays or waves.
  • usage: "The sun radiates heat"
• Send out real or metaphoric rays.
  • usage: "She radiates happiness"
• Extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center.
  • usage: "spokes radiate from the hub of the wheel"; "This plants radiate spines in all directions"
  • synonyms: ray
• Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.
  • usage: "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna"
  • synonyms: glow, beam, shine
• Cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays.
  • usage: "The sun is radiating"
• Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.
  • usage: "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness"
  • synonyms: glow, beam, shine
• Issue or emerge in rays or waves.
  • usage: "Heat radiated from the metal box"
• Spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate.
  • usage: "The plants on this island diversified"
  • synonyms: diversify

adjective

• Arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center.
  • usage: "radial symmetry"; "a starlike or stellate arrangement of petals"; "many cities show a radial pattern of main highways"
  • synonyms: radial, stellate
• Having rays or ray-like parts as in the flower heads of daisies. .