radiate

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To send out rays or waves.
• intransitive verb To issue or emerge in rays or waves.
• intransitive verb To extend in straight lines from or toward a center; diverge or converge like rays.
• intransitive verb To spread into new habitats and thereby diverge or diversify. Used of a group of organisms.
• intransitive verb To emit (light or energy) in rays or waves.
• intransitive verb To send or spread out from or as if from a center.
• intransitive verb To irradiate or illuminate (an object).
• intransitive verb To manifest in a glowing manner.
• adjective Botany Having rays or raylike parts, as in the flower heads of daisies.
• adjective Biology Characterized by radial symmetry.
• adjective Surrounded with rays.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To be directed, as rays, toward a common center: as, “spokes radiating to an axle.”
• To issue and proceed in rays or straight lines from a point; spread directly outward from a center or nucleus, as the spokes of a wheel, heat and light, etc.
• To emit rays; be radiant: as, a radiating body.
• To spread in all directions from a central source or cause; proceed outward as from a focus to all accessible points.
• To emit or send out in direct lines, as from a point or focus; hence, to cause to proceed or diverge in all directions, as from a source or cause; communicate by direct emanation: as, the sun radiates heat and light.
• To furnish with rays; cause to have or to consist of rays; make radial.
• Having a ray, rays, or ray-like parts; having lines or projections proceeding from a common center or surface; rayed: as, a radiate animal (a member of the Radiata); a radiate mineral (one with rayed crystals or fibers); a radiate flower-head.
• Constituting a ray or rays; proceeding or extending outward from a center or focus; radiating: as, the radiate fibers of some minerals and plants; the radiate petals of a flower or florets of a head.
• In numismatic and similar descriptions, represented with rays proceeding from it, as a head or bust: as, the head of the Emperor Caracalla, radiate; the head of Helios (the sun-god), radiate.
• noun A ray-like projection; a ray.
• noun A member of the Radiata, in any sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To emit rays; to be radiant; to shine.
• intransitive verb To proceed in direct lines from a point or surface; to issue in rays, as light or heat.
• transitive verb To emit or send out in direct lines from a point or points.
• transitive verb rare To enlighten; to illuminate; to shed light or brightness on; to irradiate.
• noun (Zoöl.) One of the Radiata.
• adjective Having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated.
• adjective (Bot.) Having in a capitulum large ray florets which are unlike the disk florets, as in the aster, daisy, etc.
• adjective (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Radiata.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii.
• verb transitive To emit rays or waves.
• verb intransitive To come out or proceed in rays or waves.
• verb transitive To illuminate.
• verb To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography.
• verb transitive To manifest oneself in a glowing manner.
• verb ecology, intransitive to spread into new habitats, migrate.
• adjective radiating from a center.
• adjective surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture.
• adjective botany having parts radiating from the center, such as the petals in many flowers.
• adjective biology having radial symmetry, such as a seastar.
• noun zoology One of the Radiata.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb send out rays or waves
• verb issue or emerge in rays or waves
• verb extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center
• verb spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate
• verb cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays
• adjective arranged like rays or radii; radiating from a common center
• verb send out real or metaphoric rays
• verb experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion