Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give or send out (matter or energy).
- transitive verb To give out as sound; utter.
- transitive verb To voice; express.
- transitive verb To issue with authority, especially to put (currency) into circulation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To send forth; throw or give out; vent: as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun and stars emit light.
- To let fly; discharge; dart or shoot.
- To issue, as an order or a decree; issue for circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge
- transitive verb To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
send out orgive off .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
- verb expel (gases or odors)
- verb give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yesterday, I posted that the total budget of fossil fuel emissions we can ever emit is 1 trillion tonnes of Carbon.
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Putting the cost on those that emit is a reasonable market solution to the problem.
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Yesterday, I posted that the total budget of fossil fuel emissions we can ever emit is 1 trillion tonnes of Carbon.
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Nov 20, 2009 (156 views) Yesterday, I posted that the total budget of fossil fuel emissions we can ever emit is 1 trillion ...
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For what CO2 and water vapor emit is miniscule compared to the buzzing multitude of heated nitrogen, oxygen, and even argon, all of it radiating infrared too.
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Yesterday, I posted that the total budget of fossil fuel emissions we can ever emit is 1 trillion tonnes of Carbon.
Will Peak Oil Save us from Climate Change? | Serendipity 2009
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The level of air pollution that companies can emit is underregulated in the United States, especially with regard to greenhouse gasses.
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Wow, the LIGHT POLLUTION they emit is absolutely HORRIBLE.
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The cheaper LEDs are less well designed, the colour they emit is mostly cold and rather flat.
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Now, every odor we emit is trapped in this house like a fart in a Ziploc baggie.
oroboros commented on the word emit
Time in reverse.
July 22, 2007