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Definitions: Emanate |
EmanateVerb1. Proceed or issue forth, as from a source; "Water emanates from this hole in the ground". 2. Give out, as of breath or an odor; "The chimney exhales a thick smoke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emanate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1755. (references) |
Note: Emanate \Em"a*nate\, intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Emanated; present participle verb or noun Emanating.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: EmanateSynonyms: exhale (v), give forth (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Effect | Verb: be the effect of; Noun: be due to,be owing to; originate in, originate from; rise -, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from, emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from, issue from, flow from,result from, follow from, derive its origin from, accrue from; come to, come of, come out of; depend upon, hang upon, hinge upon, turn upon. |
Egress | Verb: emerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate. |
Excretion | Verb: excrete; (eject); emanate; (come out). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Emanate |
| English words defined with "emanate": Calorific rays ♦ ectoplasm, Emanated, Emanating, Ex- ♦ Orderly room ♦ To go forth. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "emanate": cosmic radio waves ♦ radiofrequency interference, ringed network, ringed system. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "emanate": Emanant. (references) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The Thenardiess was dazzled by one of those unexpected flashes which emanate from talent. |
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Economic History | Japan | Also, consumer styles and fashions emanate from Tokyo in avidly read magazines as well as the television networks. (references) |
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| "Emanate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 62.34% of the time. "Emanate" is used about 77 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 62.34% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 37.66% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Total | 100.00% | 77 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "emanate": emanate light. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
emanate | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "emanate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zë fill, kam prejardhje (derive, stem), buron (begin, derive, descend, flow out, gush, proceed, spring, start, stem). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | إنبعث (emit, escape, exhale, issue, regenerate, waft), إنبثق (dribble, emerge, jet, spout, spring), أطلق (cast, cast off, divorce, draw, eject, enlarge, erupt, evolve, fire, generalize, give off, liberate, loose, open, project, relax, release, shoot, slip, speed, spout, toss, touch off, unchain, unlock, utter), أصدر (appear, discharge, emit, export, issue, publish, put out, release, send out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | произхождам (accrue, come from, derive, descend, evolve, issue, spring, stem, take off), произтичам (accrue, proceed, result), произлизам (accrue, arise, arisen, arose, ensue, eventuate, flow, flow from, originate, proceed, result). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 发出 (Emanated, Emanating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyzařovat (emit, exude, give off, give out, irradiate, stream), vycházet (come out, issue, slip open), sálat (blaze down, give off, radiate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناشی شدن (Arise, Issue, Result), تجلی کردن (Transfigure), سرچشمه گرفتن , جاری شدن (Gush, Pour, Rill, Run, Stream), بیرون امدن (Emerge, Exude, Issue, Pullout, Transpire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | provenir de, émaner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ausstrahlen (broadcast, diffuse, emit, emits, extend, give off, irradiate, pipe, radiate, ray, send, send forth, send out, spread, to emanate, to emits, to ray, transmit), ausströmen (bleed away, emanation, emit, escape, exhaust, give off, issue, leak, outpouring, pour out, radiate, release, sluice, stream out, to emanate, to sluice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προέρχομαι (come from, come of, derive, descend, germinate, originate, proceed), πηγάζω (originate, spring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לשפוע (abound, discharge, flow, teem), ל בוע (arise, bubble, derive, flow, gush forth, issue, originate, pour forth, result, spout forth, stem, well). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiömlik (disembogue, gush, to effuse, to emanate, to escape, to issue, to issue out, to spill, to stream forth, to well forth, to well up), kiárad (overflow, to emanate, to exude, to flare, to flood, to flux, to pour forth, to well forth, to well up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memancar (gush, jet, sprout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emanare (exhale, issue, outpouring, radiate, send out, sluice). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 출하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | irree ass (abdicate, cry off, relinquish, resign, resignation, retire), cheet voish. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | utgå. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emanateay correio eletrônico (electronic publishing). (various references) emana (discharge, emit, exhale, stream), proveni (accrue, arise, come, source). (various references) происходить (accrue, arise, be, befall, come, come about, come from, derive, descend, flow from, hap, happen, intervene, issue, occur, occurred, originate, take place), проистекать (arise), исходить (radiate). (various references) proizići (come from, result from). (various references) emanar. (various references) utgå (issue, originate, proceed), emanera. (various references) ฟุ้งออกมา. (various references) yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get around, get round, go, grow rife, loll, lounge, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, permeate, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), sızmak (creep, effuse, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak, leak out, ooze, ooze out, percolate, permeate, run, run out, seep, transpire, transude, trickle, weep), doğmak (arise, arrive, be born, begin, break through, come about, emerge, ensue, grow out of, rise, spring), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, puff up, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references) відбуватися (arrive, be in progress, betide, come about, come off, develop, hap, happen, intervene, occur, proceed, transpire), витікати (drain, leak away, ooze, outstream, run out, spring, spring out), випромінюватися. (various references) deillio (accrue, issue, proceed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | emanio, fluat, fluebant, fluebat, fluens, fluent, fluentem, fluentes, fluere, fluerent, fluet, fluit, fluunt, fluxerat, fluxerint, fluxerit, fluxerunt, fluxu, fluxum, fluxus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emanate": emanated, emanates. (additional references) | |
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"Emanate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amanaty, amante, aminate, aymante, Belmangate, Eimantas, emacate, emancate, emarate, emena, emenate, emicate, Eminase, eminate, eminnate, Emkarate, Emmajane, emmenate, Emmentaler, emminate, emunerate, enamate, ennate, eumobate, Evante, iminate, mawatte, medanite, newmanite, Oenanthe, Semenzato. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emanate" (pronounced e"munā't) |
| 6 | e" m u n ā' t | disseminate, inseminate. |
| 5 | -m u n ā' t | contaminate, culminate, decontaminate, denominate, determinate, discriminate, dominate, eliminate, exterminate, fulminate, germinate, illuminate, incriminate, nominate, predominate, renominate, ruminate, terminate. |
| 4 | -u n ā' t | agglutinate, alienate, assassinate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, decaffeinate, detonate, fascinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, impersonate, indoctrinate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, resonate, subordinate, titanate, urinate. |
| 3 | -n ā' t | designate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enemata, manatee. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-m-n-t" | |
-2 letters: ament, antae, atman, eaten, enate, enema, manat, manta, meant, menta. | |
-3 letters: amen, anta, ante, atma, etna, mana, mane, mate, mean, meat, meet, meta, mete, name, neat, neem, nema, tame, team, teem, teen. | |
-4 letters: ama, ana, ane, ant, ate, eat, eme, eta, mae, man, mat, men, met, nae, nam, nee, net, tae, tam, tan, tea, tee, ten. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, am, an, at, em, en, et, ma, me, na, ne, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-m-n-t" | |
+1 letter: emanated, emanates, entameba, manatees. | |
+2 letters: abasement, abatement, amazement, athenaeum, deaminate, emanative, entamebae, entamebas, entamoeba, exanimate, exanthema, nameplate, reanimate. | |
+3 letters: abasements, abatements, amazements, antifemale, athenaeums, deaminated, deaminates, delaminate, emancipate, emarginate, entamoebae, entamoebas, exanthemas, lamentable, management, nameplates, ravagement, reanimated, reanimates, rearmament, weatherman. | |
+4 letters: advancement, amativeness, amphetamine, animateness, antechamber, appeasement, arrangement, assuagement, balletomane, delaminated, delaminates, emancipated, emancipates, exanthemata, fragmentate, lineamental, maintenance, managements, megatonnage, metanalyses, pomegranate, ravagements, rearmaments, tetrahymena, treponemata. | |
+5 letters: advancements, aerenchymata, aeromagnetic, amphetamines, anathematize, animadverted, antechambers, appeasements, appraisement, arrangements, assuagements, augmentative, balletomanes, cabinetmaker, comanagement, departmental, entomofaunae, ethanolamine, exanthematic, extramundane, fragmentated, fragmentates, galvanometer, katzenjammer, magnetizable, magnetopause, mainstreamed, maintenances, malapertness, maltreatment, managemental, materialness, megatonnages, merchantable, metalanguage, metencephala, methaqualone, misdemeanant, permanganate, planetesimal, pomegranates, reattachment, testamentary, tetrahymenas, unmarketable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 61 6E 61 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01100001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m a n a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0061 006E 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39796780678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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