Library / English Dictionary

EMANATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give out (breath or an odor)

Example:

The chimney exhales a thick smoke

Synonyms:

emanate; exhale; give forth

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "emanate" is one way to...):

breathe; emit; pass off (expel (gases or odors))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

emanation (the act of emitting; causing to flow forth)

emanation (something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Proceed or issue forth, as from a source

Example:

Water emanates from this hole in the ground

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "emanate" is one way to...):

come; come up (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "emanate"):

effuse; flow out (flow or spill forth)

Sentence frame:

Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

emanation (the act of emitting; causing to flow forth)

emanation (something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.))

Credits

 Context examples: 

A personality of smallness and egotism and petty underhandedness seemed to emanate from the letters themselves.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Even though some light falls into a supermassive black hole never to be seen again, other high-energy light emanates from both the corona and the surrounding accretion disk of superheated material.

(NuSTAR sees rare blurring of black hole light, NASA)

Well, in the next place, you will remember that this idea of someone moving in the garden, which took our attention for a moment from the real cause of the tragedy, emanated from him.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the study the researchers expand a magnetic field model that combines what is known about solar magnetic flux transport — the movement of magnetic fields around, through and emanating from the surface of the sun — to a wide range of stars with different levels of magnetic activity.

(Even 'Goldilocks' exoplanets need a well-behaved star, National Science Foundation )

When first the Professor's eye had lit upon him he had been angry at his interruption at such a time; but now, as he took in his stalwart proportions and recognised the strong young manhood which seemed to emanate from him, his eyes gleamed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Among the more unique data sets collected by Juno during its first scientific sweep by Jupiter was that acquired by the mission's Radio/Plasma Wave Experiment (Waves), which recorded ghostly- sounding transmissions emanating from above the planet.

(Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System, NASA)

An office within the National Institutes of Health that monitors scientific progress in basic and clinical research involving recombinant DNA and human gene transfer, advises federal departments and agencies on ways to minimize the possibility that knowledge and technologies emanating from vitally important biological research will be misused to threaten public health or national security, provides policy advice to the Department of Health and Human Services on the broad array of complex medical, ethical, legal, and social issues raised by the development and use of genetic technologies and Xenotransplantation.

(Office of Biotechnology Activities, NCI Thesaurus)

A unit of electric charge density used to express a number of lines of electric force emanated or absorbed by an electric charge equal to one coulomb per unit area equal to one square meter.

(Coulomb per Square Meter, NCI Thesaurus)

Such dips occur at wavelengths between 65 megahertz (MHz) and 95 MHz, overlapping with some of the most widely used frequencies on the FM radio dial, as well as booming radio waves emanating naturally from the Milky Way galaxy.

(Astronomers detect ancient signal from first stars in universe, National Science Foundation)

I have no idea from where your luck will emanate, but I do see luck in your chart.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)