Meaning of EMIT
| Pronunciation: | | i'mit
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- [v] expel, as of gases and odors
- [v] express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"
- [v] give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.; "The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits"
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| | Synonyms: | | breathe, give off, give out, let loose, let out, pass off, utter |
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| | Antonyms: | | absorb, take in | | |
| | See Also: | | baa, bark, belch, bellow, bite out, blat, blate, bleat, bray, break into, bubble, burp, cackle, call, caw, cheep, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chorus, churr, clack, click, cluck, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cry, deliver, discharge, echo, effuse, eject, emanate, eruct, exhale, expel, force out, fume, gargle, gibber, give, give forth, gobble, groan, growl, grumble, grunt, gurgel, haw, heave, hee-haw, hem, hiss, holler, hollo, honk, hoot, howl, lift, low, meow, mew, miaou, miaow, moan, moo, nasale, neigh, nicker, oink, pant, quack, radiate, radiate, ray, reek, reflect, release, repeat, roar, rumble, scintillate, scream, shine, shoot, shout, shout out, sibilate, sigh, sing, siss, sizz, smoke, snort, sough, spark, sparkle, spit, spit out, splutter, sputter, squall, squeal, steam, troat, trumpet, twirp, volley, whicker, whinny, whirr, wolf-whistle, wrawl, yammer, yell, yowl | |
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| | Definition: | | \E*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emitted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Emitting}.] [L. emittere to send out; e out + mittere to
send. See {Mission}.]
1. To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to
give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat
and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.
Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal
arrows. --Prior.
2. To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send
into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
No State shall . . . emit bills of credit. --Const.
of the U. S.
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| | Related Terms: | | aerate, aerify, articulate, atomize, bleed, blow, breathe, breathe out, bring out, carbonate, chime, chlorinate, chorus, come out with, communicate, convey, deliver, discharge, disclose, disembogue, distill, drip, effuse, egest, eject, eliminate, emanate, enunciate, etherify, etherize, evacuate, evaporate, excrete, exfiltrate, exhale, exhaust, expel, expire, express, extravasate, extrude, exudate, exude, filter, filtrate, fling off, flow, fluidize, formulate, fractionate, fume, fumigate, gasify, get off, get out, give, give expression, give forth, give off, give out, give out with, give tongue, give utterance, give vent to, give voice, hydrogenate, impart, issue, leach, let out, lip, lixiviate, loose, ooze, open the floodgates, open the sluices, out with, oxygenate, pass, pass off, percolate, perfume, phonate, phrase, pour, pour forth, pour out, present, pronounce, puff, put forth, put in words, put out, radiate, raise, reek, release, say, secrete, seep, send forth, send out, set forth, smoke, sound, spray, steam, strain, sublimate, sublime, tell, throw off, transpire, transude, utter, vapor, vaporize, vent, verbalize, vocalize, voice, void, volatilize, weep, whisper, word |
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