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Emit   /ɪmˈɪt/   Listen
Emit

verb
(past & past part. emitted; pres. part. emitting)
1.
Expel (gases or odors).  Synonyms: breathe, pass off.
2.
Give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc..  Synonyms: give off, give out.
3.
Express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words).  Synonyms: let loose, let out, utter.  "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"



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"Emit" Quotes from Famous Books



... native Australian flowers emit any perfume except the golden and silver wattle (the Mimosae tribe): these charm the senses, and fully realize the description we read of in the 'Arabian Nights' Entertainments' of those exotics, the balmy perfume of which is exhaled far ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... giving his costume a feminine air, and monomaniacs trick themselves out with ribbons, decorations, and medals: their clothes are generally of a strange cut. The cretin and the idiot go about with their clothes torn and in disorder and not infrequently emit ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... moment the Billionaire regarded him with a look of intense irritation. His thin lips moved, as though to emit some caustic answer; but he managed to keep silence. The two men looked at each other, a long ...
— The Air Trust • George Allan England

... more money; but she always took what I gave her contentedly. The only thing I can remember out of the common course of lecherous events in such acquaintances, is that I took one for spending over her, used to fuck up to spending-point, then pull out my prick, and frigging it, emit my semen on to her belly, breasts, or thighs; then I began fucking again, almost directly I had discharged and looking at my spunk lying on her flesh. When my pleasure came on again, I would put her hand on to my spunk; and ...
— My Secret Life, Volumes I. to III. - 1888 Edition • Anonymous

... to the fire, and chafed her hands. He looked around for something to raise her head. There was literally nothing but some loose bricks. However, those he got; and taking off his coat he covered them with it as well as he could. He pulled her feet to the fire, which now began to emit some faint heat. He looked round for water, but the poor woman had been too weak to drag herself out to the distant pump, and water there was none. He snatched the child, and ran up the area-steps to the room above, and borrowed their only saucepan with some water in it. Then he began, with ...
— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell


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