[ US /ɪˈmɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪmˈɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
    The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits
  2. express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)
    She let out a big heavy sigh
    He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand
  3. expel (gases or odors)
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How To Use emit In A Sentence

  • I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
  • Since the extra energy being transferred from one molecule to the next changes the way each absorbs and emits light, the flow of energy can be followed through optical spectroscopy, resolved on a femtosecond timescale.
  • How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
  • The companion star would emit plenty of its own UV radiation, but this radiation would be blocked in the direction of Eta Carinae by the thick nebulosity of the giant star's surrounding gas, dust, and stellar wind.
  • You are entering a period when you will emit such strong personal magnetism that no one will be able to resist you. The Sun
  • It is snapping and whirring, emitting a high-pitched tome like the mewling of a cat. Death's Noisy Herald
  • The unit installs at the transom and emits sonar beams that ‘look’ out to 240 feet on either side of the boat.
  • He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • Instead of emitting light, like a laser, the maser emits microwave energy at a specific frequency, which produces a very specific ticking.
  • Payment will be remitted to you in full.
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