Word Meanings - EMISSION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes. 2. That which is sent out,

Additional info about word: EMISSION

1. The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes. 2. That which is sent out, issued, or put in circulation at one time; issue; as, the emission was mostly blood. Emission theory , the theory of Newton, regarding light as consisting of emitted particles or corpuscles. See Corpuscular theory, under Corpuscular.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMISSION)

• Effluence
• Outpouring
• emission
• discharge
• abundance
• overflow
• Effusion
• Pouring
• effluence
• oration
• speech
• address
• Projection
• Protuberance
• prominence
• convexity
• propulsion

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMISSION)

• Elude
• avoid
• shun
• ignore
• pass

Related words: (words related to EMISSION)

• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• POURSUIVANT
  See PURSUIVANT
• SPEECHLESS
  1. Destitute or deprived of the faculty of speech. 2. Not speaking for a time; dumb; mute; silent. Speechless with wonder, and half dead with fear. Addison. -- Speech"less*ly, adv. -- Speech"less*ness, n.
• POURPARLER
  A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• SPEECHIFYING
  The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
• EFFUSION
  1. The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like. To save the effusion of my people's blood. Dryden. 2. That which is poured out, literally or figuratively. Wash me with that precious effusion, and I
• OUTPOUR
  To pour out. Milton.
• SPEECHFUL
  Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious.
• PROTUBERANCE
  That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which
• ABUNDANCE
  An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty; profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictly applicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• OVERFLOWING
  An overflow; that which overflows; exuberance; copiousness. He was ready to bestow the overflowings of his full mind on anybody who would start a subject. Macaulay.
• SPEECHIFY
  To make a speech; to harangue.
• POURELICHE
  Poorly. Chaucer.
• AVOIDLESS
  Unavoidable; inevitable.
• PROMINENCE; PROMINENCY
  1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness. 2. That which is prominent; a protuberance. Solar prominences. See Solar Protuberances, under Protuberance.
• POURER
  One who pours.
• SPEECHIFICATION
  The act of speechifying.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• PRELUDE
  An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with
• DEDECORATION
  Disgrace; dishonor. Bailey.
• PRELUDER
  One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,
• EVAPORATION
  See VAPORIZATION (more info) 1. The process by which any substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor. 2.
• TRACTORATION
  See PERKINISM
• PIGNORATION
  The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, till satisfaction is made. Burrill. (more info) pignerate to pledge, fr. pignus, gen. -ous and -eris, a pledge, a 1. The act of pledging or pawning.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• RORATION
  A falling of dew.
• COMMEMORATION
  1. The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event. This sacrament was designed to be a standing commemoration of the death and passion of our Lord. Abp. Tillotson. The commonwealth which
• ROBORATION
  The act of strengthening. Coles.