EMANATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emanate mean? 

• EMANATE (verb)
  The verb EMANATE has 2 senses:

1. proceed or issue forth, as from a source

2. give out (breath or an odor)

  Familiarity information: EMANATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMANATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they emanate    ... he / she / it emanates   
Past simple: emanated   
Past participle: emanated   
-ing form: emanating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Proceed or issue forth, as from a source

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Water emanates from this hole in the ground

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.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Give out (breath or an odor)

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

emanate; exhale; give forth

Context example:

The chimney exhales a thick smoke

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.))

 Context examples 

Money emanating from the eighth house generally comes from outside the realm of salary and usually arrives as one large payment.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

An unintended or unpleasant sound that emanates from a device.

(Audible Device Noise, NCI Thesaurus)

Recent observations have provided a clearer picture of the interactive signaling pathways that emanate from the mature B cell antigen receptor (BCR) complex and the different precursor complexes that are expressed during development.

(BCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

GRaND measures the number and energy of gamma rays and neutrons emanating from Ceres.

(Where is the Ice on Ceres?, NASA)

Astronomers discovered the molecules’ faint millimeter-wavelength “glow” emanating from two dense star-forming embryos in the LMC, regions known as “hot cores.”

(Stellar Embryos in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Contain Surprisingly Complex Organic Molecules, National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

The formation of NGC 1052-DF2 may have been helped by powerful winds emanating from the young black hole that was growing in the center of NGC 1052.

(Dark Matter Goes Missing in Oddball Galaxy, NASA)

Pain emanating from below the RIBS and above the ILIUM.

(Flank Pain, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This rare event was not lost on the researchers, who were hoping to track this eclipse and measure the heat emanating from volcanos on Io’s surface.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Tiny particles can get electrically charged by ultraviolet light from the Sun or by plasma clouds emanating from micrometeoroid bombardment of the rings.

(Saturn is Losing Its Rings, NASA)

Orexin, a hormone produced in a circuit emanating from the brain's hypothalamus, regulates arousal, wakefulness and reward.

(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)