emanate
to flow out, issue, or proceed, as from a source or origin; come forth; originate.
Origin of emanate
1Other words for emanate
Other words from emanate
- em·a·na·tive, adjective
- em·a·na·tor, noun
- em·a·na·to·ry [em-uh-nuh-tawr-ee], /ˈɛm ə nəˌtɔr i/, adjective
- re·em·a·nate, verb (used without object), re·em·a·nat·ed, re·em·a·nat·ing.
- un·em·a·na·tive, adjective
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How to use emanate in a sentence
On Twitter, the nearly verbatim language emanated from about two dozen accounts through the summer.
Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter | Isaac Stanley-Becker | September 15, 2020 | Washington PostIf you recall that distinctive tang of fresh pavement, what your nose is picking up is the volatile organic molecules emanating from the petroleum-based material.
They show the expanding limits of a ray of light—and everything else—as it emanates from an initial event, such as an explosion.
How special relativity can help AI predict the future | Will Heaven | August 28, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThese force fields — the same entities that emanate from fridge magnets — surround Earth, the sun and all galaxies.
The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View | Natalie Wolchover | July 2, 2020 | Quanta MagazineEarth’s field, for instance, emanates from its inner “dynamo,” the current of liquid iron churning in its core.
The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View | Natalie Wolchover | July 2, 2020 | Quanta Magazine
The concrete building from which the sounds emanate shakes from the impact, rattling the colorful houses on the dirt roads nearby.
Your bodies will emanate scent, and you will go to paradise.
When India Failed in the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks | Emma Garman | November 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTCold white wine would somehow emanate from its own spring just outside the door.
India, for its part, counter-charges that many attacks within its borders emanate from Pakistan.
The worthy Germans, who think everything excellent that does not emanate from themselves, copy this custom most conscientiously.
A Woman's Journey Round the World | Ida PfeifferIt may be said that an earnest Barrister should be clean shaven, but the remark would only emanate from those who are bachelors.
It would, indeed, be disrespectful in the listener not to pay intelligent heed to the discourses which emanate from the pulpit.
Ancient Faiths And Modern | Thomas InmanNo such crude claims as these emanate from the skilled advertising agents employed by the Sanatogen people.
But it was not from the members of the Chamber that the movement was to emanate.
British Dictionary definitions for emanate
/ (ˈɛməˌneɪt) /
(intr often foll by from) to issue or proceed from or as from a source
(tr) to send forth; emit
Origin of emanate
1Derived forms of emanate
- emanative (ˈɛmənətɪv), adjective
- emanator, noun
- emanatory (ˈɛməˌneɪtərɪ, -trɪ), adjective
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