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Definitions: Emit |
EmitVerb1. Expel, as of gases and odors. 2. 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.". 3. Express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "emit" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Note: Emit \E*mit"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Emitted; present participle verb or noun Emitting.]. (Websters 1913) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
EMIT | English | Environmental Measures and International Trade | Environment |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EmitSynonyms: breathe (v), give off (v), give out (v), let loose (v), let out (v), pass off (v), utter (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: absorb (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ejection | Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind). |
Gaseity | Verb: vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor; diffuse. |
Publication | Verb: publish; make public, make known; (information); speak of, talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate; spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth, give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice. |
Vaporization | Verb: render -gaseous; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime; evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam, fumigate; cohobate; finestill. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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![]() | Lawrence Johnson, who is at the Germplasm and Gamete Physiology Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, has developed a system for sorting batches of livestock sperm cells based on the amount of DNA they carry. The X-bearing sperm carry more DNA, which can be measured using a fluorescent dye and a laser. Based on the light they emit, the X and Y sperm can be collected in separate tubes. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. | ![]() | Dryland grazing on the Great Plains in Colorado. Each cow on a pasture can emit about 350 liters (230 grams) of methane per day. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| Vomit; regurgitate; regurgitating; barf; be seasick; be sick; belch; bring up; disgorge; dry heave; emit; expel; gag; heave; hurl; keck; lose it; puke; regurgitate; retch; ruminate; spew; spit up; throw up; upchuck. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their music at sunrise. |
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Health | In turn, these cells emit a range of immune system chemicals such as kinins. (references) | |
The most common sources of artificial UVR exposure are various kinds of lamps that emit this form of energy. (references) | ||
UVR lamps can emit UVA, UVB, and/or UVC. Those lamps currently used for recreational tanning emit UVA primarily or exclusively. (references) | ||
Business | By the end of year, coal plants will emit 12 million tons annually of SO2, which will account for 60% of the nation's total SO2 emissions. (references) | |
Compared with cars made ten years ago, today's models run on 40% less fuel and emit exhaust gases that are five to ten times lower in pollutants. (references) | ||
In particular, buses using diesel fuel emit more than 40 percent of the air pollution although they account for only four percent of the total number of vehicles. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Emit" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 51.79% of the time. "Emit" is used about 168 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) | 51.79% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 45.83% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.38% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 168 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "emit": emit heat ♦ emit light ♦ emit smell ♦ emit sparks ♦ emit vapor. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "emit": re-emit. | |
| 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 |
emit | 20 |
emit till | 12 |
emit smith | 3 |
emit kelly | 3 |
emit test | 2 |
emit teal | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "emit"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | emetoj (issue), rrezatoj (beam, irradiate, radiate, Ray), nxjerr (belch, conclude, derive, discharge, discover, display, distil, distill, divulge, drag out, draw, educe, eject, elicit, evolve, excrete, exhale, exhibit, exhume, expel, extract, extricate, extrude, feature, fish out, gain, generate, get off, get out, give away, give off, hatch, heave, hustle, incubate, infer, issue, lay out, leak, let off, let out, liberate, lift out, make out, move out, obtrude, out, pan out, pop, puff, pull, pull out, raise, release, rip out, rout, run against, secrete, send, spit, stick, stick out, take out, tear off, turf out, turn away, uncase, unearth, utter, vomit, whiffle), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نفث (breathe, erupt, expectoration, expel, utter), لفظ (articulate, articulation, discharge, eject, ejection, emission, enunciate, enunciation, expel, pronounce, pronunciation, say, spit, vocalization, vocalize), قذف (accuse of, aspersion, calumniate, cast, casting, charge with, defamation, defame, discharge, disgorge, ejaculation, eject, ejectment, expel, extrude, extrusion, fling, libel, malediction, malign, mud, mudslinging, obloquy, pelt, pelt with, pitch, projection, puke, row, scandal, slander, speak evil of, strike with, striking, throw, throw out, throwing, toss, vilify, vituperate, vomit), عبر (across, act out, carry, clothe, come, come across, conceive, couch, cross, enunciate, express, express oneself, fly, get through, give voice to, go over, jibe, jump, mouth, navigate, negotiate, pass, phrase, run, signify, slice through, span, swim, track, trans, transit, ventilate, voice), إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), إنبعث (emanate, escape, exhale, issue, regenerate, waft), أصدر (appear, discharge, emanate, export, issue, publish, put out, release, send out), أرسل (deliver, detach, expedite, forward, issue, route, send, send off, toss off, transmit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unfix, unjoin, unyoke), пускам в обръщение (float, issue), изпускам (elide, exhale, exhaust, exude, give off, heave, leave out, let fall, let out, lose, muff, omit, ooze, pour, put forth, quit, release, run, shoot, throw out, utter, vent), издавам (betray, bring out, condemn, delate, denounce, disclose, divulge, enact, give, give away, hand down, issue, leak, loose, proclaim, produce, publish, put forth, put out, send forth, spill, stick out, throw out, utter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 散髮 (distribute, issue), 散发 (Emitted, Emitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vyzařovat (emanate, exude, give off, give out, irradiate, stream), vysílat (be on air, beam, call, carry, screen, shoot, telecast), vydávat (dole out, give off, give out), vonìt (smell, smell sweet), páchnout (reek, smell, stink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | under visse driftsbetingelser kan apparater, hvori elektroner accelereres, og som arbejder ved spaendinger hoejere end nogle faa kV, udsende straaling (under certain operating conditions electron accelerating devices working at voltages greater than a few kV may emit radiation), implosionssikre roer, som ikke udsender maalelig roentgenstraaling (self-protected tubes which cannot implode and which emit no measurable X-radiation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uitstralen (radiate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | disradii. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | خارج کردن (Evict), انتشارنورمنتشرکردن , بیرون ریختن (Outpour, Vent, Void), بیرون دادن (Emission, Evolve, Exhale, Ooze, Vent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syytää (belch, heap abuse upon a person, spew). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | répandre, lancer, dégager, émettre. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | emittieren (issue, launch), ausstrahlen (broadcast, diffuse, emanate, emits, extend, give off, irradiate, pipe, radiate, ray, send, send forth, send out, spread, to emanate, to emits, to ray, transmit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | εκπέμπω (broadcast, give off, issue, radiate, send out, send out 1, send out 2, vent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לפלוט (blurt, deliver, disgorge, eject, escape, slip, spew, throw up, vomit), ל"פליט (eject, let slip). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kisugároz (eradiate, illuminate, to emanate, to emit), kibocsát (exhale, give off, illuminate, launch, throw out, to deflate, to discharge, to emit, to evolve, to exhale, to give forth, to give off, to give out, to issue, to jet, to send forth, to send out, to throw out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mengedarkan (cadge, circulate, issue, pass around). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | emettere (breathe, deliver, discharge, draw, ejaculate, eject, expel, express, give out, heave, issue, output, ray, release, send out, spend, spew, utter, write out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "出 (release). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほうしゅつ (release). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 방출하십시". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiggey magh (allocation, allocation work, assignation, discharge, leak, leakage, let out, pay out, rap out, utterance, veer, vent, venting), cur magh (board out, deal, delegate, delegation, dispatch, dispensation, dispense, displace, edition, eject, ejection, emission, evacuate, evacuation, excretion, expulsion, exude, issue, lay out, publication, publish, push out, put out, run out, turn out), cur ass (annoy, cancel, deprive, extrude, inconvenience, put out), brooightey (burst forth of liquid, debouch, debouchment, emission, flush, gush). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sende ut. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | emitay expedir (despatch, dispatch, expedite, forward, issue, send, ship), emitir (beam, fling, give out, issue, make out, pose, pour, publish, send, spit, transmit, vocalize), emissivo, pronunciar (enounce, enunciation, find a job, pronounce, to pronounce, utter, vocalize, voice). (various references) exala (exhale, send out, spread), emite (criticize, discharge, effuse, express, flash, float, give, give forth, give off, issue, reissue, release, send, stream, suggest, transmit, utter, vent), emana (discharge, emanate, exhale, stream), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), rãspândi (broadcast, carry, cast, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, Dot, fling, float, give forth, give out, intersperse, irradiate, outspread, promulgate, propagate, radiate, release, retail, scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew, throw), degaja (clear, disengage, educe, evolve, extricate, liberate, relieve, withdraw). (various references) выбрасывать (cast away, ejaculate, eject, expel, scrapping, throw away, throw out, toss out, turf out), выпускать (discharge, ease, issue, let go, let out, put out, release, relinquish, send forth, vent), испускать (emitting, give off, give out), издавать (evolve, issue, produce, publish). (various references) emitovati (broadcast, carry, radio, telecast). (various references) emitir (beam, broadcast, cast, express, float, give, give off, give out, issue, launch, release, return, send, send out, throw off, throw out, vent). (various references) utsända (broadcast, give forth), ge ifrån sig, avge (give, give off, give out). (various references) ปล่อยออกมา. (various references) yaymak (broadcast, bruit about, circulate, convey, deploy, diffract, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, distribute, divulge, evolve, exhale, extend, exude, fling off, float, give forth, give off, give out, hawk, inspire, noise about, noise abroad, open out, promulgate, propagate, publish, put about, radiate, retail, rumor, rumour, send forth, send out, shed, sprawl out, spread, spread abroad, spread out, stretch, strew, throw out, transmit), yayınlamak (feature, give forth, Herald, issue, print, produce, promulgate, publish, put forth, run, telecast, televise, transmit), ifade etmek (amount, be enunciative of, breathe, conceive, connote, couch, denote, describe, enounce, express, figure, frame, give voice to, import, mean, purport, reflect, represent, sign, signify, state, utter, voice, word), belirtmek (define, deliver oneself, denote, embody, enumerate, evidence, exude, feature, import, indicate, manifest, point out, predicate, purport, remark, represent, show, sign, signify, specify, state, ventilate), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, unfix, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references) aсkawmak (emit an unpleasing odor). (various references) вивергати (disgorge, effuse, ejaculate, erupt, regorge, regurgitate, throw), випускати (deliver, discharge, give out, issue, loose, omit, outlet, produce, set free, unclasp, vent), випромінювати (beam, eradiate, irradiate, radiate, send out, shoot), видавати (allow, apportion, betray, issue, publish), публікувати (edit, give out, print, publish). (various references) bốc ra (emissive). (various references) gwreichioni (emit sparks, sparkle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adoleas, adolebant, adolebat, adolebatur, adolebis, adolebit, adolebitis, adolebitque, adolebitur, adolebuntque, adolendum, adolens, adolentes, adolere, adolerent, adoleret, adoletur, edant, edat, edatis, ede, edebant, edebat, edendo, edent, edente, edentes, edentibus, edere, ederent, edes, edetis, edetur, edidit, edit, edite, edunt, emittere, obed, submiserit, submiserunt, submisit, submisso, submissoque, submittebant, submittentes, submitti, submittit, submittite. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 16 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Qewrhsasa gewrgion epriato apo de karpwn ceirwn authV katefuteusen kthma |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Zai consideravit agrum et emit eum de fructu manuum suarum plantavit vineam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Zay. She beheeld a feeld, and boyte it; of the frut of hir hondis she plauntide a vyne. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 31, Verse 16 |
| Bulgarian | азглежда нива, и я купува; От плода на ръцете си сади лозе. |
| Cebuano | Siya nagahunahuna ug usa ka baul, ug nagapalit niini; Uban sa bunga sa iyang mga kamot siya nagatanum ug usa ka parrasan. |
| Chinese | 他 想 得 " 地 、 就 買 來 . " 手 所 得 之 利 、 種 葡 萄 ' . |
| Croatian | Opazi li polje, kupi ga; plodom svojih ruku sadi vinograd. |
| Danish | Hun tænker på en Mark og får den, hun planter en Vingård, for hvad hun har tjent. |
| Dutch | Zain. Zij denkt om een akker, en krijgt hem; van de vrucht harer handen plant zij een wijngaard. |
| Finnish | Hän haluaa peltoa ja hankkii sen, istuttaa viinitarhan kättensä hedelmällä. |
| French | Elle pense un champ, et elle l`acquiert; Du fruit de son travail elle plante une vigne. |
| German | Sie denkt nach einem Acker und kauft ihn und pflanzt einen Weinberg von den Früchten ihrer Hände. |
| Haitian Creole | Li fè lide sou yon tè, li achte l' ak lajan li fè ak men l'. Li fè jaden rezen sou li. |
| Hungarian | Gondolkodik mezõ felõl, és megveszi azt; az õ kezeinek munkájából szõlõt plántál. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia mencari sebidang tanah, lalu membelinya; ia mengusahakan sebuah kebun anggur dari pendapatannya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka iapun menghendaki suatu bendang, lalu diperolehnya juga; maka dengan hasil tangannya ditanaminya sebuah kebun anggur. |
| Italian | Pensa ad un campo e lo compra e con il frutto delle sue mani pianta una vigna. |
| Korean | 밭 을 간 ' 하 여 사 며 그 손 으 로 번 것 을 가 지 포 도 원 을 심 으 며 |
| Maori | E whakaaroaro ana ia ki tetahi mara, a ka hokona e ia: whakatokia ana e ia he mara waina, he hua na ona ringa. |
| Modern Greek | Θεωρει αγρον και αγοραζει αυτον· εκ του καρπου των χειρων αυτης φυτευει αμπελωνα. |
| Norwegian | Hun tenker på en mark og får den; for det hun tjener med sine hender, planter hun en vingård. |
| Portuguese | Zaine. Considera um campo, e compra-o; planta uma vinha com o fruto de suas maos. |
| Rumanian | Se gkndewte la un ogor, wi -l cumpqrq; din rodul muncii ei sqdewte o vie. - |
| Russian | ъБ"ХНБЕФ ПОБ П ПМЕ, Й ТЙП'ТЕФБЕФ ЕЗП; ПФ МП"ПЧ ТХЛ УЧПЙИ ОБУБЦ"БЕФ ЧЙОПЗТБ"ОЙЛ. |
| Spanish | Evalúa un campo y lo compra, y con sus propias manos planta una viña. |
| Swedish | Hon har planer på en åker, och hon skaffar sig den; av sina händers förvärv planterar hon en vingård. |
| Thai | เธอพิเคราะห์"ูไร่นาแล้วก็ซื้อไว้ "้วยผลน้ำมือของเธอ เธอปลูกสวนองุ่น |
| Ukrainian | Про поле вона намишляла, і його набула, із плоду долоней своїх засадила вона виноградника. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "emit": emits, emittance, emittances, emitted, emitter, emitters, emitting. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "emit": demit, reemit, remit. (additional references) | |
Words containing "emit": demitasse, demitasses, demits, demitted, demitting, eremite, eremites, eremitic, eremitical, eremitism, eremitisms, extremities, extremity, fremitus, fremituses, reemits, reemitted, reemitting, remitment, remitments, remits, remittable, remittal, remittals, remittance, remittances, remitted, remittent, remitter, remitters, remitting, remittor, remittors, semiterrestrial, semitist, semitists, semitonal, semitonally, semitone, semitones, semitonic, semitonically, semitrailer, semitrailers, semitranslucent, semitransparent, semitropic, semitropical, semitropics, totemite, totemites, unremitting, unremittingly, willemite, willemites. (additional references) | |
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"Emit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ebit, Ecitb, edmit, eezit, efit, egit, eim, eimi, eit, eitb, eitd, elit, elitt, ema, emaid, emat, emate, emax, emet, emete, Emett, emi, emid, emie, emim, emin, eminty, emip, Emis, emita, emite, emitt, emity, emix, Emlith, emment, emmit, emmitt, emni, emnit, emo, emot, empt, emrit, emt, Emtb, emu, emult, emust, emut, Emyn, emyt, endit, enet, eni, enic, Enif, Enig, enim, enit, enite, enith, enity, enmit, ennit, enot, Enott, enti, eoit, epit, erit, esit, etim, evit, ewit, ezit, Gemito, hemit, imet, Imgt, imi, imit, Lembit, Medit, meit, Meith, melit, meti, Mewitt, Nemet, Nesmith, semit, umit. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "emit" (pronounced emi"t) |
| 3 | -m i" t | admit, commit, mitt, omit, permit, readmit, remit, resubmit, Smit, submit, transmit. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: item, mite, time. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-m-t" | |
-1 letter: met, tie. | |
-2 letters: em, et, it, me, mi, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-m-t" | |
+1 letter: demit, emits, items, merit, metis, miter, mites, mitre, remit, smite, stime, tempi, timed, timer, times. | |
+2 letters: bemist, bemixt, betime, demits, emetic, emetin, enmity, etamin, fomite, gimlet, hermit, imaret, impute, inmate, intime, itemed, iterum, kismet, limpet, merits, metier, meting, metric, midget, millet, milted, milter, minted, minter, minuet, minute, misate, miseat, mismet, misset, misted, mister, miters, mither, mitier, mitred, mitres, mitten, moiety, motile, motive, mutine, optime, permit, pitmen, reemit, remint, remits, remixt, retime, retrim, samite, smiter, smites, somite, stimes, stymie, tamein, tammie, tedium, telium, theism, timber, timbre, timely, timers, tinmen, titmen, tmesis, trimer, uptime. | |
+3 letters: ailment, airtime, aliment, amative, ambient, amenity, amentia, amirate, amities, amniote, amosite, animate, anytime, atheism, atomies, atomise, atomize, bedtime, bemists, betimes, bevomit, bimetal, bitumen, centime, centimo, chemist, climate, cometic, daytime, delimit, demerit, demotic, diastem, dimeter, dimmest, distome, egotism, elitism, elmiest, emerita, emeriti, emetics, emetine, emetins, eminent, emirate, emitted, emitter, emoting, emotion, emotive, emptied, emptier, empties, emptily, emptins, epitome, eremite, erotism, etamine, etamins, etatism, ethmoid, exotism, figment, filemot, filmset, firmest, fitment, fomites, fumiest, gametic, gamiest, gimlets, gummite, hematic, hematin, hermits, homiest, imamate, imarets, imbrute, imitate, impaste, impetus, impiety, imprest, imputed, imputer, imputes, inmates, interim, intimae, iteming, itemise, itemize, jimpest, kismets, leftism, liftmen, limbate, limiest, limited, limiter, limites, limpest, limpets, maestri, maltier, mannite, marlite, marmite, matinee, maziest, meatier, meatily, mediant, mediate, meeting, megabit, megahit, meiotic, melilot, melting, mention, merited, mesquit, mestino, mestiza, mestizo, metical, metiers, metisse, metopic, metrics, metrify, metring, metrist, mezquit, midgets, midterm, migrate, mildest, millets, milters, miltier, mimetic, minaret, mindset, minster, mintage, minters, mintier, minuets, minuted, minuter, minutes, miriest, mirkest, miscite, misdate, miseats, misedit, miskept, mismate, mismeet, misrate, misseat, missent, missets, misstep, mistake, mistend, misterm, misters, misteuk, mistier, mistime, mistune, mistype, mitered, miterer, mithers, mitiest, mitises, mitogen, mitoses, mittens, mixture, modiste, moisten, moister, mopiest, mortice, mortise, mothier, motiles, motived, motives, motlier, mullite, muriate, mustier, mutined, mutines, mythier, nematic, nimiety, omitted, omitter, onetime, optimes, pastime, permits, pietism, pigment, pimento, pinetum, premixt, pretrim, primate, ragtime, raiment, readmit, reemits, remints, retimed, retimes, retrims, rimiest, samites, sematic, semifit, semimat, sentimo, septime, sigmate, smartie, smectic, smiters, smitten, somites, stimied, stimies, stymied, stymies, subitem, tameins, tamises, tammies, taxemic, taximen, teaming, teatime, tediums, teeming, tegmina, telomic, temping, terbium, terming, termini, termite, theisms, theming, thermic, thimble, thymier, thymine, timbale, timbers, timbrel, timbres, timeous, timeout, timider, titmice, tommies, tonemic, totemic, toxemia, toxemic, trimers, trimmed, trimmer, trireme, triseme, trisome, tsimmes, tummies, tzimmes, unmiter, unmitre, uptimes, vicomte, vitamer, vomited, vomiter, wartime. | |
+4 letters: acetamid, adamsite, admitted, admitter, agminate, ailments, airtimes, aliments, amaretti, ambients, ambivert, amentias, amirates, amitoses, amitrole, ammonite, amnestic, amniotes, amoretti, amortise, amortize, amosites, animated, animater, animates, anthemia, antimale, antimere, apterium, asterism, atheisms, atomised, atomiser, atomises, atomized, atomizer, atomizes, autecism, azotemia, azotemic, bailment, balmiest, barmiest, beamiest, bedtimes, bemisted, bevomits, bimester, bimetals, bimethyl, biometry, bitumens, boehmite, boomiest, bumpiest, calamite, campiest, campsite, casteism, catamite, centimes, centimos, centrism, ceramist, chemists, chowtime, chromite, clematis, climates, coinmate, comfiest, comities, cosmetic, daytimes, decimate, delimits, dementia, demerits, demitted, demivolt, demonist, demotics, demoting, demotion, demotist, diamante, diameter, diastema, diastems, diestrum, dimeters, dimethyl, dimetric, dimities, diriment, distomes, ditheism, dolomite, domestic, dominate, dormient, downtime, dumpiest, dynamite, egotisms, elitisms, emaciate, embitter, emeritae, emeritas, emeritus, emetines, emigrant, emigrate, emirates, emitters, emitting, emotions, empathic, emphatic, emptiers, emptiest, emptings, emptying, enigmata, enmities, enormity, epistome, epitomes, epitomic, eremites, eremitic, erethism, ergotism, erotisms, estimate, etamines, etatisms, ethmoids, exotisms, feminist, feminity, figments, filament, filmiest, filmsets, fitments, flamiest, flextime, foamiest, foretime, fremitus, fumigate, gammiest, geminate, gemmiest, germiest, gimleted, gimpiest, grimiest, grimmest, gummiest, gummites, haematic, haematin, halftime, hammiest, helminth, helotism, hematein, hematics, hematine, hematins, hematite, hematoid, hemipter, hempiest, hermetic, hermitic, hermitry, homeotic, homesite, humpiest, ilmenite, imamates, imbitter, imbruted, imbrutes, imitable, imitated, imitates, immanent, immature, imminent, immodest, immolate, immotile, impacted, impacter, imparted, imparter, impasted, impastes, impetigo, impolite, imported, importer, imposted, imposter, impotent, imprests, impudent, imputers, intercom, interims, intermit, intermix, intimate, intombed, isometry, isotherm, itemised, itemises, itemized, itemizer, itemizes, jammiest, jumpiest, kamacite, kismetic, lambiest, laminate, lamister, leftisms, lifetime, ligament, limbiest, limiteds, limiters, limnetic, limonite, liniment, lithemia, lithemic, litmuses, loamiest, longtime, lumpiest, lutecium, lutetium, magister, magnetic, maieutic, majestic, maledict, malemiut, malmiest, maltiest, mangiest, manifest, manliest, mannites, mantises, marinate, maritime, marliest, marlites, marmites, martinet, massiest, mastiche, mastixes, mastlike, material, materiel, mateship, matinees, matiness, matrices, matrixes, maximite, mealiest, mealtime, meantime, meatiest, medalist, mediants, mediated, mediates, mediator, medicate, meditate, meetings, megabits, megacity, megahits, megalith, melanist, melanite, melilite, melilots, melinite, melodist, mentions, mephitic, mephitis, meristem, meristic, meriting, merriest, meshiest, mesquite, mesquits, messiest, mestinos, mestizas, mestizos, metaling, metalise, metalist, metalize, metallic, metazoic, meteoric, metering, methinks, methodic, methylic, meticais, meticals, metisses, metrical, metrists, metritis, mezquite, mezquits, micklest, midterms, miffiest, mightier, migrated, migrates, milepost, militate, milkiest, miltiest, mimetite, minarets, minciest, mindsets, mingiest, minister, minsters, minstrel, mintages, mintiest, minutely, minutest, minutiae, miquelet, mirkiest, misacted, misagent, misalter, misatone, misbegot, miscited, miscites, misdated, misdates, misdealt, miseaten, misedits, misenter, misentry, misevent, misinter, mismated, mismates, mismeets, misquote, misrated, misrates, misroute, misseats, misspelt, misspent, misstate, missteer, missteps, misstyle, mistaken, mistaker, mistakes, misteach, mistends, misterms, misthrew, mistiest, mistimed, mistimes, mistitle, mistrace, mistreat, mistress, mistuned, mistunes, mistyped, mistypes, miswrite, miswrote, miterers, mitering, miticide, mitigate, mitogens, mixtures, moatlike, modelist, modistes, moieties, moistens, moistest, moisture, moldiest, monazite, monetise, monetize, monitive, monteith, moodiest, mooniest, mooriest, morticed, mortices, mortised, mortiser, mortises, mossiest, mothiest, mothlike, motioned, motioner, motivate, motliest, motorise, motorize, mousiest, mouthier, muckiest, muddiest, muggiest, mullites, multiage, multijet, multiped, multiple, multiuse, muniment, muriated, muriates, muricate, murkiest, mushiest, muskiest, mussiest, mustiest, mutative, mutilate, mutineer, mutinied, mutinies, muzziest, myelitis, mylonite, mystique, mythiest, nepotism, neumatic, nimblest, nizamate, nominate, noontime, ofttimes, ointment, omitters, optimise, optimize, orpiment, ostomies, outsmile, overtime, overtrim, palmiest, pastimes, pediment, pentomic, piedmont, pietisms, pigments, pimentos, pimiento, pipestem, pitchmen, pivotmen, playtime, plumiest, pointmen, polemist, preadmit, prelimit, pretrims, primates, primmest, psammite, ptomaine, pumicite, quietism, ragtimes, raiments, rammiest, readmits, realtime, recommit, regiment, reimport, remating, reminted, remittal, remitted, remitter, remittor, remotion, resubmit, retiform, retiming, rhematic, rimester, rolamite, roomiest, rudiment, ruminate, rummiest, scimetar, scimiter, seamiest, sediment, seedtime, semantic, semimatt, semimute, semiotic, semisoft, semitist, semitone, sentimos, septimes, seriatim, setiform, shipmate, shipment, showtime, simplest, simulate, slimiest, slimmest, smaltine, smaltite, smarties, smectite, smelting, smithers, smithery, smithies, smokiest, smoothie, smuttier, sodomite, sometime, spumiest, steamier, steamily, steaming, stemlike, stemmier, stemming, sterigma, stickmen, stillmen, stormier, stumpier, subitems, summited, symbiote, systemic, tachisme, tagmemic, taleysim, teatimes, tegminal, tegumina, telefilm, temerity, tempting, tenesmic, teraphim, teratism, terbiums, terminal, terminus, termites, termitic, termtime, thematic, theremin, thermion, thermite, thiamine, thimbles, thymiest, thymines, tidemark, timbales, timbered, timbrels, timecard, timeless, timelier, timeline, timeouts, timework, timeworn, timidest, tiresome, titmouse, toilsome, tokenism, tomblike, totemism, totemist, totemite, toxaemia, toxaemic, toxemias, trainmen, tramline, trichome, trimeric, trimeter, trimmers, trimmest, trimness, triremes, trisemes, trisemic, trisomes, tumefied, tumefies, tumpline, turmeric, tyramine, ultimate, umangite, unmiters, unmitred, unmitres, untimely, verbatim, vicomtes, vitamers, vitamine, vomiters, vomitive, wartimes, wimpiest, wombiest, wormiest, yummiest, zonetime. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 6D 69 74 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references). -- .. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01101101 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E m i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 006D 0069 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39797586 |