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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



... happiness that perfect health engenders. Since the vigour of birds is greatest at the nesting season, it follows that that is the time when they are most vociferous. Some birds sing only at the breeding season, while others emit their cries at all times. Hence the avian choir in India, as in all other countries, is composed of two sets of vocalists—those who perform throughout the year, "the musicians of all times and places," and those who join the chorus only for a few weeks ...
— A Bird Calendar for Northern India • Douglas Dewar

... to be mentioned in the same breath with Fortuny as to the manipulation of material; and has Guillaumet done anything savouring more of the mysterious East than Fortuny's At the Gate of the Seraglio? The magician of jewelled tones, he knew all the subtler modulations. His canvases vibrate, they emit sparks of sunlight, his shadows are velvety and warm. Compared with such a picture as The Choice of a Model, the most laboriously minute Meissonier is as cold and dead as a photograph—Meissonier, who was a capital fan painter, a patient miniaturist without colour talent, a myopic ...
— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker

... shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title ...
— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews

... landed being what we Bolderhead boys called a "grunter"—a frog-mouthed fish of most unpleasant aspect and of absolutely no use as food. All it did when he shook it off his hook in disgust was to swell up like a toy balloon and emit an objective grunt whenever it was poked. Funny, but these "grunters" always ...
— Swept Out to Sea - Clint Webb Among the Whalers • W. Bertram Foster

... Garnett, was an American, and spoke in the thin rarefied voice which seems best fitted to emit sententious truths, twisted his lean neck toward the younger man and cackled out shrewdly: "Ah, it's generally a woman who is at the bottom of the unexpected. Not," he added, leaning forward with deliberation to select a tooth-pick, "that that precludes the ...
— The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories • Edith Wharton


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