broadcast vs radiate

broadcast

verb
  • To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means. 

  • To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people. 

  • To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme. 

adj
  • Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad. 

  • Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means. 

  • Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means. 

adv
  • Widely in all directions; abroad. 

noun
  • A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted. 

  • A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver. 

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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