Synonyms of the word

irradiation

• n. An act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
• n. (obsolete) illumination; irradiance; brilliance.
• n. (obsolete) figurative: mental light or illumination.
• n. (obsolete) the apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the…
• n. (uncountable) a process of sterilisation whereby radiation is passed through a bag containing food, utensils,…

actinotherapy

• n. (medicine) The treatment of disease, especially skin disease, by exposure to ultraviolet light; radiotherapy.

beam

• n. Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
• n. One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame…
• n. (nautical) The maximum width of a vessel.
• n. The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
• n. The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
• n. (literary) The pole of a carriage or chariot.
• n. (textiles) A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and…
• n. The straight part or shank of an anchor.
• n. The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached…
• n. In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which…
• n. A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
• n. (figuratively) A ray; a gleam.
• n. One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
• n. (music) A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric…
• n. (railway) An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To emit beams of light; shine; radiate.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
• v. (transitive) To furnish or supply with beams.
• v. (transitive) give the appearance of beams to.
• v. (transitive, science fiction) To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
• v. (transitive, currying) To stretch something (for example an animal hide) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, weaving) To put (something) on a beam.
• v. (transitive, music) To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.

condition

• n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
• n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
• n. The health status of a medical patient.
• n. The state or quality.
• n. A particular state of being.
• n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
• v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
• v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
• v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
• v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

generalisation

• n. The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
• n. Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

generalization

• n. The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.
• n. Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

illusion

• n. (countable) Anything that seems to be something that it is not.
• n. (countable) A misapprehension; a belief in something that is in fact not true.
• n. (countable) A magician’s trick.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being deceived or misled.

light

• n. (physics, uncountable) Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation…
• n. A source of illumination.
• n. Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
• n. (in the plural, now rare) Facts; pieces of information; ideas, concepts.
• n. A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
• n. (painting) The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those…
• n. A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
• n. A flame or something used to create fire.
• n. A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
• n. A window, or space for a window in architecture.
• n. The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
• n. (informal) A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
• n. Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
• n. The power of perception by vision.
• n. The brightness of the eye or eyes.
• n. A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler…
• v. (transitive) To start (a fire).
• v. (transitive) To set fire to; to set burning; to kindle.
• v. (transitive) To illuminate.
• v. (intransitive) To become ignited; to take fire.
• v. To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
• adj. Having light.
• adj. Pale in colour.
• adj. (of coffee) Served with extra milk or cream.
• adj. Of low weight; not heavy.
• adj. Lightly-built; designed for speed or small loads.
• adj. Gentle; having little force or momentum.
• adj. Easy to endure or perform.
• adj. Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
• adj. Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
• adj. (rail transport, of a locomotive, usually with "run") travelling with no carriages, wagons attached.
• adj. (obsolete) Unchaste, wanton.
• adj. Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
• adj. Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
• adj. (dated) Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
• adj. Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
• adj. Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
• adj. Not of the legal, standard, or usual weight; clipped; diminished.
• adj. Easily interrupted by stimulation.
• adv. Carrying little.
• n. (curling) A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
• v. (nautical) To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter.
• v. To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
• v. To find by chance.
• v. To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice.
• v. (archaic) To alight; to land or come down.

radiation

• n. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light.
• n. The process of radiating waves or particles.
• n. The transfer of energy via radiation (as opposed to convection or conduction).
• n. Radioactive energy.

radiotherapy

• n. The therapeutic use of ionizing radiation, almost exclusively used for the treatment of malignant disease.

ray

• n. A beam of light or radiation.
• n. (zoology) A rib-like reinforcement of bone or cartilage in a fish's fin.
• n. (zoology) One of the spheromeres of a radiate, especially one of the arms of a starfish or an ophiuran.
• n. (botany) A radiating part of a flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, such as an…
• n. (obsolete) Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded…
• n. (mathematics) A line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
• n. (colloquial) A tiny amount.
• v. (transitive) To emit something as if in rays.
• v. (intransitive) To radiate as if in rays.
• n. A marine fish with a flat body, large wing-like fins, and a whip-like tail.
• v. (obsolete) To arrange.
• v. (now rare) To dress, array (someone).
• v. (obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
• n. The letter ⟨/⟩, one of two which represent the r sound in Pitman shorthand.
• n. (obsolete) Array; order; arrangement; dress.
• n. (music) Alternative form of re.

semblance

• n. likeness, similarity; the quality of being similar.
• n. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

shaft

• n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
• n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
• n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
• n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed…
• n. A beam or ray of light.
• n. The main axis of a feather.
• n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
• n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
• n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
• n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
• n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
• n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
• n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
• v. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

spread

• v. (transitive) To stretch out, open out (a material etc.) so that it more fully covers a given area of space.
• v. (transitive) To extend (individual rays, limbs etc.); to stretch out in varying or opposing directions.
• v. (transitive) To disperse, to scatter or distribute over a given area.
• v. (intransitive) To proliferate; to become more widely present, to be disseminated.
• v. (transitive) To disseminate; to cause to proliferate, to make (something) widely known or present.
• v. (intransitive) To take up a larger area or space; to expand, be extended.
• v. (transitive) To smear, to distribute in a thin layer.
• v. (transitive) To cover (something) with a thin layer of some substance, as of butter.
• v. To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To open one’s legs, especially for sexual favours.
• n. The act of spreading.
• n. Something that has been spread.
• n. An expanse of land.
• n. A large tract of land used to raise livestock; a cattle ranch.
• n. A piece of material used as a cover (such as a bedspread).
• n. A large meal, especially one laid out on a table.
• n. (bread, etc.) Any form of food designed to be spread such as butters or jams.
• n. An item in a newspaper or magazine that occupies more than one column or page.
• n. Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
• n. A numerical difference.
• n. (business, economics) The difference between the wholesale and retail prices.
• n. (trading, economics, finance) The difference between the price of a futures month and the price of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of a futures contract of one delivery month against the sale of another…
• n. (trading, finance) The purchase of one delivery month of one commodity against the sale of that same delivery…
• n. (trading) An arbitrage transaction of the same commodity in two markets, executed to take advantage of…
• n. (trading) The difference between bidding and asking price.
• n. (finance) The difference between the prices of two similar items.
• n. (geometry) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
• n. The surface in proportion to the depth of a cut gemstone.

spreading

• v. present participle of spread.
• n. The act by which something is spread.

status

• n. A person’s condition, position or standing relative to that of others.
• n. Prestige or high standing.
• n. A situation or state of affairs.
• n. (law) The legal condition of a person or thing.
• n. (social networking) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message…

therapy

• n. Attempted remediation of a health problem following a diagnosis, usually synonymous with treatment.
• n. Healing power or quality.
• v. (transitive, rare) To treat with a therapy.
• v. (intransitive, rare) To undergo a therapy.