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)
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. - DEFLUOUS
Flowing down; falling off. Bailey. - SUPERREFLECTION
The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.