Synonyms for emit
ɪˈmɪtemit

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1. emit

   To send is to cause to go or pass from one place to another, and always in fact or thought away from the agent or agency that controls the act. Send in its most common use involves personal agency without personal presence; according to the adage, "If you want your business done, go; if not, send;" one sends a letter or a bullet, a messenger or a message. In all the derived uses this same idea controls; if one sends a ball into his own heart, the action is away from the directing hand, and he is viewed as the passive recipient of his own act; it is with an approach to personification that we speak of the bow sending the arrow, or the gun the shot. To despatch is to send hastily or very promptly, ordinarily with a destination in view; to dismiss is to send away from oneself without reference to a destination; as, to dismiss a clerk, an application, or an annoying subject. To discharge is to send away so as to relieve a person or thing of a load; we discharge a gun or discharge the contents; as applied to persons, discharge is a harsher term than dismiss. To emit is to send forth from within, with no reference to a destination; as, the sun emits light and heat. Transmit, from the Latin, is a dignified term, often less vigorous than the Saxon send, but preferable at times in literary or scientific use; as, to transmit the crown, or the feud, from generation to generation; to transmit a charge of electricity. Transmit fixes the attention more on the intervening agency, as send does upon the points of departure and destination.

   Synonyms:
   cast, dart, delegate, depute, despatch, discharge, dismiss, drive, fling, forward, hurl, impel, lance, launch, project, propel, send, sling, throw, transmit

   Antonyms:
   bring, carry, convey, get, give, hand, hold, keep, receive, retain

   Preposition:
   To send from the hand to or toward (rarely at) a mark; send to a friend by a messenger or by mail; send a person into banishment; send a shell among the enemy.

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1. emit, breathe, pass offverb

   expel (gases or odors)

   Synonyms:
   evanesce, take a breather, fleet, fall out, respire, go on, hap, let loose, fade, blow over, pass off, breathe, let out, suspire, rest, happen, take place, occur, give off, utter, catch one's breath, take a breath, pass, come about, give out

   Antonyms:
   take in, absorb

2. emit, give out, give offverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   go, pass off, conk out, pass out, give way, let loose, die, break down, breathe, let out, run out, break, give off, utter, fail, give out, distribute, hand out, go bad

   Antonyms:
   take in, absorb

3. utter, emit, let out, let looseverb

   express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

   "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"

   Synonyms:
   pass off, unwrap, express, bring out, divulge, talk, let loose, give away, expose, reveal, widen, breathe, let out, break, verbalise, loose, give tongue to, speak, give off, verbalize, give out, let on, utter, discover, unleash, disclose, mouth

   Antonyms:
   take in, absorb

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. emanated

   intransitive verb : to come out from a source transitive verb : emit

   she seems to emanate an air of serenity a sweet scent emanating from the blossoms

   Submitted by WilliamRP1988 on March 15, 2020  

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1. emitverb

   Synonyms:
   eject, discharge, exhale, breathe, breathe out, send forth, throw out, give out

2. emitverb

   Synonyms:
   issue (for circulation), put into circulation

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "emit":

   issue, emitting

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1. Jean Paul Richter:

   Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

2. John Foster:

   The constant activity on the surface of the Sun is punctuated by violent outbursts powered the Sun’s strong magnetic field. Solar flares emit bursts of X-rays that travel outward at the speed of light, coronal mass ejections( CMEs) are giant eruptions of hot gasses from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. As this blast wave of solar material( plasma) streams towards the planets at 1000 km/sec, it sweeps up the magnetic field in its path, creating a magnetized shockwave of the type that struck Earth’s magnetic field on October 8, 2013.

3. Simon Spurrier:

   True, I can fly at Mach-50 without effort and emit regenerative energy when I touch my brother, but mostly that's behind me.

4. Davey Jones:

   Most people know that you emit lots of this virus through respiratory particles in droplets from the lungs, but what's less well known is that you actually emit more small virus particles in faeces.

5. Michael Manga:

   We're trying to understand first, why do geysers exist? why don't they just continually emit water, like a spring?