emit
verb /iˈmɪt/
/iˈmɪt/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they emit | /iˈmɪt/ /iˈmɪt/ |
| he / she / it emits | /iˈmɪts/ /iˈmɪts/ |
| past simple emitted | /iˈmɪtɪd/ /iˈmɪtɪd/ |
| past participle emitted | /iˈmɪtɪd/ /iˈmɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form emitting | /iˈmɪtɪŋ/ /iˈmɪtɪŋ/ |
- emit something to send out something such as light, heat, sound, gas, etc.
- The metal container began to emit a clicking sound.
- Sulphur gases were emitted by the volcano.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEmit is used with these nouns as the subject:- transmitter
- aura
- beam
- carbon dioxide
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin emittere, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + mittere ‘send’.