emit

See also: émit and émît

English

Etymology

From Latin ēmittō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈmɪt/, /ɪˈmɪt/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪt

Verb

emit (third-person singular simple present emits, present participle emitting, simple past and past participle emitted)

1. (transitive) To send out or give off.

   Synonyms: outsend, output

   • 1744, Alexander Shiels [i.e., Alexander Shields], “Period VI. Containing the Testimony through the Continued Tract of the Present Deformation, from the Year 1660 to this Day.”, in A Hind Let Loose: Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland, for the Interest of Christ; with the True State thereof in All Its Periods: […] , Edinburgh: Reprinted by R. Drummond and Company, and sold by William Gray bookbinder in the Grassmarket, and several others, &c., →OCLC, pages 167–168:

     Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted [James II of England], to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was.

   • 2014, Imar Spaanjaars, Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1: in C# and VB:

     The controls then emit client-side HTML code that is appended to the final page output.

2. (intransitive) To come out, to be sent out or given off.
   • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 350:

     Eruption ceased to emit, and aside from the limited success of "I'll Be Your Friend" (--/#40, 1986), Precious Wilson still hopes to hit the big time.

   • 1997, Emmanuel Saint-Victor, Illuminating and Sound Producing String Activated Rotatable Toy, US Patent 6083076 :

     Said sound producing means generates a sound which is allowed to emit from said casing through said plurality of apertures.

Derived terms

• emittable

Related terms

• emission
• emitter

Translations

to send out or give off

• Afrikaans: uitstuur, uitstraal
• Albanian: emetoj (sq)
• Arabic: نَفَثَ (nafaṯa), أَصْدَرَ (ʔaṣdara), لَفَظَ (ar) (lafaẓa)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: изпускам (bg) (izpuskam), излъчвам (bg) (izlǎčvam)
• Catalan: emetre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 排放 (zh) (páifàng), 散發／散发 (zh) (sànfā)

• Czech: vypustit pf, vydat (cs) pf, vypouštět impf, vydávat (cs) impf
• Dutch: uitzenden (nl), afgeven (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: päästää (fi), emittoida (fi), lähettää (fi), säteillä (fi)
• French: émettre (fr)
• Galician: emitir (gl)
• Georgian: გამოცემა (gamocema), გამოყოფა (gamoq̇opa), გამოსხივება (gamosxiveba)
• German: aussenden (de), abgeben (de), emittieren (de)
• Greek: εκπέμπω (el) (ekpémpo)
• Haitian Creole: emèt
• Hungarian: kibocsát (hu)
• Irish: astaigh
• Italian: emettere (it)
• Japanese: 放つ (ja) (はなつ, hanatsu), 放射する (ja) (ほうしゃする, hōsha-surú)
• Khmer: បញ្ចេញ (km) (bɑñcəñ)
• Latin: ēmittō (la)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: گسیل کردن (fa) (gosil kardan), گسی کردن (gosi kardan)
• Portuguese: emitir (pt)
• Romanian: emite (ro)
• Russian: выбра́сывать (ru) (vybrásyvatʹ), выделя́ть (ru) (vydeljátʹ), испуска́ть (ru) (ispuskátʹ), изверга́ть (ru) (izvergátʹ)
• Spanish: emitir (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: salmak (tr)
• Vietnamese: phát ra
• Welsh: allyrru (cy)

Anagrams

• -time, METI, it me, item, mite, time

Finnish

Noun

emit

1. nominative plural of emi

Anagrams

• imet

Latin

Verb

emit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of emō

Verb

ēmit

1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of emō