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Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
Charles Baudelaire

Meaning of "emit" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EMIT

From Latin ēmittere to send out, from mittere to send.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF EMIT

emit  [ɪˈmɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EMIT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Emit is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb emit in English.

WHAT DOES EMIT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Emit

Emit may refer to: ▪ Emit, Time backwards. To travel back in time ▪ Emit, North Carolina, an unincorporated community ▪ Em:t Records, a British record label that specializes in ambient music. Technically the name has a colon in place of the letter "I", but it is pronounced like the common word "emit". ▪ Cornish derogatory slang for a tourist or newcomer, especially one that has a second home or attempts to drive inappropriately large cars around country lanes or villages. This derives from the Old English word for 'ant'. Pronounced Em-mit rather than e-MIT. ▪ EMIT or Enzyme Multiplied Immunoassay Technique, a common drug test ▪ EMIT, a Norwegian timing equipment manufacturer ▪ Emit_, a visual novel video game about time travel and was released on various video game systems. One of the first fan translated video games.

Definition of emit in the English dictionary

The first definition of emit in the dictionary is to give or send forth; discharge. Other definition of emit is to give voice to; utter. Emit is also to give off.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO EMIT

PRESENT

Present
I emit
you emit
he/she/it emits
we emit
you emit
they emit
Present continuous
I am emitting
you are emitting
he/she/it is emitting
we are emitting
you are emitting
they are emitting
Present perfect
I have emitted
you have emitted
he/she/it has emitted
we have emitted
you have emitted
they have emitted
Present perfect continuous
I have been emitting
you have been emitting
he/she/it has been emitting
we have been emitting
you have been emitting
they have been emitting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I emitted
you emitted
he/she/it emitted
we emitted
you emitted
they emitted
Past continuous
I was emitting
you were emitting
he/she/it was emitting
we were emitting
you were emitting
they were emitting
Past perfect
I had emitted
you had emitted
he/she/it had emitted
we had emitted
you had emitted
they had emitted
Past perfect continuous
I had been emitting
you had been emitting
he/she/it had been emitting
we had been emitting
you had been emitting
they had been emitting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will emit
you will emit
he/she/it will emit
we will emit
you will emit
they will emit
Future continuous
I will be emitting
you will be emitting
he/she/it will be emitting
we will be emitting
you will be emitting
they will be emitting
Future perfect
I will have emitted
you will have emitted
he/she/it will have emitted
we will have emitted
you will have emitted
they will have emitted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been emitting
you will have been emitting
he/she/it will have been emitting
we will have been emitting
you will have been emitting
they will have been emitting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would emit
you would emit
he/she/it would emit
we would emit
you would emit
they would emit
Conditional continuous
I would be emitting
you would be emitting
he/she/it would be emitting
we would be emitting
you would be emitting
they would be emitting
Conditional perfect
I would have emit
you would have emit
he/she/it would have emit
we would have emit
you would have emit
they would have emit
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been emitting
you would have been emitting
he/she/it would have been emitting
we would have been emitting
you would have been emitting
they would have been emitting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you emit
we let´s emit
you emit
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to emit
Past participle
emitted
Present Participle
emitting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EMIT


admit
ədˈmɪt
coadmit
ˌkəʊədˈmɪt
commit
kəˈmɪt
decommit
ˌdi:kəˈmɪt
demit
dɪˈmɪt
intermit
ˌɪntəˈmɪt
intromit
ˌɪntrəˈmɪt
manumit
ˌmænjʊˈmɪt
omit
əʊˈmɪt
overcommit
ˌəʊvəkəˈmɪt
permit
pəˈmɪt
pretermit
ˌpriːtəˈmɪt
readmit
ˌriːədˈmɪt
recommit
ˌriːkəˈmɪt
reemit
ˌriːɪˈmɪt
remit
rɪˈmɪt
resubmit
ˌriːsəbˈmɪt
retransmit
ˌriːtrænzˈmɪt
submit
səbˈmɪt
transmit
trænzˈmɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EMIT

eminent
eminent domain
eminential
eminently
emir
emirate
Emiscan
emissaries
emissary
emissile
emission
emission nebula
emission spectrum
emissions trading
emissive
emissivity
emittance
emitted
emitter
emitting

WORDS THAT END LIKE EMIT

age limit
building permit
credit limit
dammit
drink-drive limit
Earth Summit
entry permit
hermit
Izmit
limit
Peter the Hermit
semmit
smit
speed limit
summit
the limit
three-mile limit
time limit
vomit
work permit

Synonyms and antonyms of emit in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EMIT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «emit» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of emit

Translation of «emit» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF EMIT

Find out the translation of emit to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of emit from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «emit» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

发出
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

emitir
570 millions of speakers

English

emit
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

फेंकना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تنبعث منها
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

излучают
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

emitir
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নির্গত করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

émettre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Memancarkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

abgeben
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

放つ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 내뿜다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Emit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sinh ra các
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெளியிடுவதில்லை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सोडणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yaymak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

emettere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

emitować
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

випромінюють
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

emit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εκπέμπουν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stoot
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

avge
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

avgir
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of emit

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EMIT»

The term «emit» is quite widely used and occupies the 27.710 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «EMIT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «emit» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «emit» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about emit

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7 QUOTES WITH «EMIT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word emit.
1
Charles Baudelaire
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
2
Wendy Liebman
I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.
3
James Lovelock
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
4
Jerry Saltz
'The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself.
5
Pierre Schaeffer
People who share the same language, French or Chinese or whatever, have the same vocal cords and emit sounds which are basically the same, as they come from the same throats and lungs.
6
Fiona Shaw
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
7
Johannes Stark
For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EMIT»

Discover the use of emit in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to emit and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Time, Emit, and Time Again
-- In this collection of short stories and essays, each piece begins with an idea about time and with an idea about love, then follow to see where they lead.
Teel McClanahan, 2010
2
Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond
Many objects in astronomy, including stars, emit radiation approximately as if they were blackbodies. Hot objects emit blackbody radiation, but so do cold objects. Ice cubes are cold, but their temperature is higher than absolute zero, so they ...
Michael Seeds, Dana Backman, 2009
3
Potential to emit a guide for small businesses.
What are fugitive emissions, and do they need to be considered when calculating my potential to emit? Fugitive emissions refer to air pollutant emissions that enter the atmosphere from a business without first passing through a stack or duct ...
Deborah M. Elmore, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, 1998
4
Maya 5 Fundamentals
Emit Diffuse and Emit Specular In special cases, a light can emit only diffuse or specular shading (see Figure 10.22). The Emit Diffuse and Emit Specular attributes are not available with Ambient lights. Emit Diffuse is particularly useful for ...
Garry Lewis, Jim Lammers, 2004
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Handbook of Forensic Drug Analysis
2.3.1 ENZYME-MULTIPLIED IMMUNOASSAY TECHNIQUE (EMIT) The Syva EMIT assays were developed based on the observation that certain enzymes could be inhibited by antibodies directed against specific haptens that were covalently ...
Fred Smith, 2004
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Air Pollution Control Law: Compliance and Enforcement
132 In a challenge to the regulations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit required "potential to emit" be ... to emit.135 Industry challenged these regulations, and the petitions were consolidated into Chemical Manufacturers Ass 'n v.
Arnold W. Reitze, 2001
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C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4
toInt(); QModelIndex transposedIndex = createIndex(index.column(), index.row()); emit dataChanged(index, index); emit dataChanged(transposedIndex, transposedIndex); return true; } return false; } The setData() function is called when the ...
Jasmin Blanchette, Mark Summerfield, 2006
8
The Rootkit Arsenal: Escape and Evasion
Bill Blunden. return; }/*end writeTextQ- #define EMIT(str) writeText(fptr,str) //we define this simply to save space Build the script so that it cannot be deleted in advance Can test this function by running diff against original . js script ...
Bill Blunden, 2009
9
Pro C# with .NET 3.0, Special Edition
Emit namespace. The System.Reflection.Emit namespace makes it possible to create an assembly and its modules, type definitions, and CIL implementation logic at runtime. Once you have done so, you are then free to save your in- memory ...
Andrew Troelsen, 2007
10
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
web, strip, or wire that emit organic materials in the course of using operations described in this section shall be collectively subject to compliance with this section. (c) A person shall not discharge to the atmosphere more than 40 pounds of ...

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EMIT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term emit is used in the context of the following news items.
1
How falling into a black hole may mean you live on as a hologram …
... a black hole can never escape. But Hawking showed that black holes continually emit radiation once quantum effects are taken into account. «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
Heathrow runway squatters resist High Court eviction
"We will not let over 700 of our homes be evicted and my kid's school bulldozed for a climate change factory that could emit 11.7m tonnes of ... «getwestlondon, Jul 15»
3
Denmark using festival-goers' urine to produce beer
The droppings were then dropped into a high-tech device known as a "methane digester," which uses hungry bacteria to gobble poop and emit ... «Winnipeg Free Press, Jul 15»
4
Bad blood on the Liverpool Plains
“Between now and 2050, if no further mitigation measures are undertaken, coal generation is projected to emit more than 500 gigatonnes of ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
5
Murray Energy Corporation suing EPA over new regulations
For instance, Gonet said to outfit power plants to emit less-toxic sulfur emissions, plants would have to be outfitted with scrubbers, that can cost ... «The Southern, Jul 15»
6
Autonomous taxis: cost-effective and great for the environment
Power plants are becoming more and more involved in using renewable energy sources, and by 2030 this will mean that electricity will emit ... «ConsumerAffairs, Jul 15»
7
First Listen: Ratatat, 'Magnifique'
... seem suited to accompany mixed drinks at a beachside restaurant: At several points in "Drift," Ratatat calms down enough to emit a noise that ... «Interlochen, Jul 15»
8
Meet the Robots That Will Help Run a Tokyo Airport
Meanwhile, the noninvasive, waist-fitting exoskeleton has electrodes that detect the electrical signals muscles emit when a person moves, ... «Gizmodo, Jul 15»
9
Black Hole Hunter NuStar Reveals Sun In Whole New Light
These formations could emit electrons at extremely high velocities, producing X-rays that could be seen by NuStar. Some astrophysicists ... «Tech Times, Jul 15»
10
A Finnish House Surrounded by History
The house is heated with a combination of electricity and three classic Finnish kaakeliuunit, floor-to-ceiling fireplaces that emit heat through ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

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