Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To come or send forth, as from a source: synonym: stem.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Issuing out; emanant. Southey.
- To flow out or issue; proceed, as from a source or origin; come or go forth: used chiefly of intangible things: as, light emanates from the sun; fragrance emanates from flowers; power emanates from the people.
- To send or give out; manifest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Issuing forth; emanant.
- intransitive verb To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly.
- intransitive verb To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To come from a source;
stem out of - verb transitive, rare To send or give out; manifest.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb proceed or issue forth, as from a source
- verb give out (breath or an odor)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Stay tuned as ever-sleazier attacks on Richard Colvin emanate from the PMO.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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BLOGS, major television and radio networks and media personalities are promoting and propagating anger, fear and hatred; they sell the fear that the U.S. is in emanate danger from a totalitarian nightmare posed by an attack by liberals upon their fundamental rights.
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And keep in mind, it no longer has to emanate from the federal government.
Michael Schwartz: Unfortunately, Obama Is Expanding the Imperial Presidency Michael Schwartz 2010
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The central tension of her work, and what has made it such a success, is that her ideas, launched at women who desire to gain or maintain position in the middle-middle class, emanate from the sort of person who gives that group the deepest and most reflexive shudder of all: pee-on-the-side-of-the-road white trash.
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A personality of smallness and egotism and petty underhandedness seemed to emanate from the letters themselves.
Chapter 3 2010
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The central tension of her work, and what has made it such a success, is that her ideas, launched at women who desire to gain or maintain position in the middle-middle class, emanate from the sort of person who gives that group the deepest and most reflexive shudder of all: pee-on-the-side-of-the-road white trash.
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How nice it is to hear a voice of sanity and intelligence emanate from the Republican party.
State of the Union: Powell on Sotomayor, affirmative action 2009
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A candidate resembling Hitler is highly likely to emanate from the Republican party.
Think Progress » Ed Schultz Tells Robert Gibbs He’s ‘Full Of Sh*t’ And ‘You’re Losing Your Base’ 2010
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The central tension of her work, and what has made it such a success, is that her ideas, launched at women who desire to gain or maintain position in the middle-middle class, emanate from the sort of person who gives that group the deepest and most reflexive shudder of all: pee-on-the-side-of-the-road white trash.
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A candidate resembling Hitler is highly likely to emanate from the Republican party.
Think Progress » Ed Schultz Tells Robert Gibbs He’s ‘Full Of Sh*t’ And ‘You’re Losing Your Base’ 2010
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