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radiant

/rey-dee-uhnt/US // ˈreɪ di ənt //UK // (ˈreɪdɪənt) //

辐射,辐射性,放射性,辐射状

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : emitting rays of light; shining; bright: the radiant sun; radiant colors.
    • : bright with joy, hope, etc.: radiant smiles; a radiant future.
    • : Physics. emitted or propagated by radiation.
    • : Heraldry. noting a partition line having a series of flamelike indentations formed by ogees joined in zigzags; rayonny. having an edge or edges so formed.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a point or object from which rays proceed.
    • : Astronomy. the point in the heavens from which a shower of meteors appears to radiate.
    • : a refractory absorbing and radiating heat from the flames of a gas fireplace or the like.

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Examples

  • In the 21st century, he writes, “the future is not a radiant horizon guiding our advancing steps, but rather a line of shadow drawing closer.”

  • Each block would come with a built in table and chairs as well as radiant heating.

  • There were enclosed vertical grills with radiant heat, hibachis from post-occupation Japan, and the Skotch Grill, a portable barbecue with a red tartan design that looked like an ice bucket.

  • It’s dark, but in many lakes, a tiny percentage of the sun’s radiant energy can get through the ice, and that’s enough to sustain photosynthesis and life, even though there’s only four months of polar summer.

  • The ensuing merriment steered the curiosity of Amaterasu, who finally came out of her cave, and thus the world was once again covered in radiant sunlight.

  • John Paul was youthful in his sixties with a radiant charisma.

  • Bulbs strung among branches in the overhead wild hibiscus tree form a radiant canopy.

  • He taught her how to die by slow example, and she was radiant with the privilege.

  • McDonald is a radiant talent, with a warm voice and beaming smile that light up any venue in which she appears.

  • And so again and again he pitted his own radiant confidence against some equal and opposite force.

  • The clear and radiant sky was drowned in a quivering radiance of gold, that was like a thing alive and sensitively palpitating.

  • On the following afternoon he found her, for instance, radiant with that exuberant happiness he had learned now to distrust.

  • Fresh and radiant she looked once more, no sign of tears, no traces of her recent emotion anywhere.

  • But he only noted that she appeared well and radiant; he understood her no morethan he understood several other things.

  • But after all, a radiant peace settled upon her when she at last found herself alone.