Irradiate is an English word with synonyms like enlighten or prophesy. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Irradiate meaning
- Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated.
- Made splendid or wonderful.
Using Irradiate
- The main meaning on this page is: Made brilliant or bright; irradiated, illuminated. | Made splendid or wonderful.
- Useful related words include: enlighten, prophesy, vaticinate, lighten.
- In the example corpus, irradiate often appears in combinations such as: irradiate the, to irradiate.
Context around Irradiate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Irradiate
- In this selection, "irradiate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, flashes, particular, anything and nearby stand out and add context to how "irradiate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include does is irradiate the metabolites and may then irradiate nearby semiconductor. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "irradiate" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with irradiate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Instead of using X-ray radiation, carbon ions are used to irradiate the patient. (14 words)
What the biosensor does is irradiate the metabolites and enhance their optical signal by over a billion times. (18 words)
Those resultant decay products may then irradiate nearby semiconductor "chip" structures, causing data loss (bit flipping, or single event upset ). (20 words)
Under bilateral agreements that allows less-developed countries to earn income through food exports agreements are made to allow them to irradiate fruits and vegetables at low doses to kill insects, so that the food can avoid quarantine. (38 words)
And these flashes irradiate particular dancers: a harshness in the lucid Michael Novak; a roiling distress in Heather McGinley; a soft explosiveness in Alex Clayton, who joined the troupe last year and is already a standout. (36 words)
If the electron receives energy that is less than or greater than this value, it cannot jump from state 1 to state 2. Now, suppose we irradiate the atom with a broad-spectrum of light. (35 words)
Example sentences (7)
What the biosensor does is irradiate the metabolites and enhance their optical signal by over a billion times.
And these flashes irradiate particular dancers: a harshness in the lucid Michael Novak; a roiling distress in Heather McGinley; a soft explosiveness in Alex Clayton, who joined the troupe last year and is already a standout.
If the electron receives energy that is less than or greater than this value, it cannot jump from state 1 to state 2. Now, suppose we irradiate the atom with a broad-spectrum of light.
Instead of using X-ray radiation, carbon ions are used to irradiate the patient.
This reduces the dose rate as the gamma rays have to pass through the topsoil before they can irradiate anything above.
Those resultant decay products may then irradiate nearby semiconductor "chip" structures, causing data loss (bit flipping, or single event upset ).
Under bilateral agreements that allows less-developed countries to earn income through food exports agreements are made to allow them to irradiate fruits and vegetables at low doses to kill insects, so that the food can avoid quarantine.
Common combinations with irradiate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- irradiate the 3×
- to irradiate 2×