Emit
[ɪ'mɪt]
Definition
(verb.) expel (gases or odors).
(verb.) 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'.
Inputed by Celia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
Typist: Ursula
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Eject, discharge, exhale, breathe, breathe out, send forth, throw out, give out.[2]. Issue (for circulation), put into circulation.
Checker: Sondra
Definition
v.t. to send out: to throw or give out: in issue: to utter (a declaration):—pr.p. emit′ting; pa.p. emit′ted.—n. Em′issary one sent out on a secret mission: a spy: an underground channel by which the water of a lake escapes.—adj. that is sent forth.—n. Emis′sion the act of emitting: that which is issued at one time.—adjs. Emis′sive Emis′sory emitting sending out.—Emission theory the theory that all luminous bodies emit with equal velocities a number of elastic corpuscles which travel in straight lines are reflected and are refracted.
Typed by Deirdre
Examples
- Add that the water, being heated and rarefied by the subterraneous fires, may emit fumes, blasts, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- By the aid of the electric current certain rays of light directed upon the mineral selenium, and some other substances, have been discovered to emit musical sounds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Kirchoff then announced his law that all bodies absorb chiefly those colours which they themselves emit. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The pitch of the sound emitted by a column of air vibrating within a pipe varies according to the following laws: 1. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Mr. Sillerton Jackson stretched his ankles nearer the coals and emitted a sardonic whistle. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The pitch of a note emitted by an open pipe is one octave higher than that of a closed pipe of equal length. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Air columns vibrate in segments just as do strings, and the tone emitted by a pipe of given length is complex, consisting of the fundamental and one or more overtones. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There seemed a faint, white light emitted from him, a white aura, as if he were visitor from the unseen. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- At this moment the fiddles finished off with a screech, and the serpent emitted a last note that nearly lifted the roof. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Newton's hypothesis that light is due to particles emitted by all luminous bodies yielded, at least for the time, to the theory of light vibrations in an ether pervading all space. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If the period of any one of the objects corresponds with the period of the sounding body, the gentle but frequent impulses affect the object, which responds by emitting a sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Back and forth upon the floor they rolled, neither one emitting a sound of fear or pain. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Rain was still falling heavily, the whole expanse of heath before him emitting a subdued hiss under the downpour. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It still has, however, a circular rocky basin, forty feet in diameter, in which a violent geyser is constantly boiling up to the height of ten to twelve feet, emitting dense clouds of steam. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If the taboo is effective it drives the evil under cover, where it festers and emits a slow poison. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Xavier