glow vs radiate

glow

verb
  • To emit light as if heated. 

  • To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies. 

  • to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation. 

  • To shine brightly and steadily. 

  • To gaze especially passionately at something. 

  • to expose someone to the authorities. 

  • To display intense emotion. 

  • To make hot; to flush. 

  • To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. 

  • To radiate thermal heat. 

noun
  • The condition of being passionate or having warm feelings. 

  • The light given off by a glowing object. 

  • The brilliance or warmth of color in an environment or on a person (especially one's face). 

radiate

verb
  • To emit rays or waves. 

  • To come out or proceed in rays or waves. 

  • To illuminate. 

  • To expose to ionizing radiation, such as by radiography. 

  • To manifest oneself in a glowing manner. 

  • To extend, send or spread out from a center like radii. 

  • to spread into new habitats, migrate. 

adj
  • Surrounded by rays, such as the head of a saint in a religious picture. 

  • Having radial symmetry, like a seastar. 

  • Belonging to the Radiata. 

  • Radiating from a center; having rays or parts diverging from a center; radiated. 

  • Having parts radiating from the center, like the petals in many flowers. 

  • Consisting of a disc in which the florets are tubular. 

noun
  • One of the Radiata. 

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