Word Meanings - EMIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

Additional info about word: EMIT

1. To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior. 2. To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit. No State shall . . . emit bills of credit. Const. of the U. S.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMIT)

• Eject
• Cast
• throw
• discharge
• dislodge
• emit
• thrust out
• oust
• cast out
• expel
• extrude
• evert
• Excuse
• Exculpate
• absolve
• pardon
• forgive
• overlook
• condone
• i emit
• indulge
• justify
• vindicate
• defend
• acquit
• mitigate
• extenuate
• release
• exempt
• exonerate
• Exhale
• Emit
• give out
• breathe out
• evaporate
• Fling
• toss
• hurl
• ejaculate
• Shed
• diffuse
• cast
• drop
• scatter
• spill
• pour
• throw off

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EMIT)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to EMIT)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• FLORA
  The goddess of flowers and spring.
• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• FLORENTINE
  Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• FLAXWEED
  See TOADFLAX
• FLIPPER
  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
• FLOTA
  A fleet; especially, a
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• DEFLUX
  Downward flow. Bacon.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• DEFLUOUS
  Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.