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  • She studies effects of the electromagnetic waves emitted by cell phones.
    emitted = sent out
  • The bulb gets its brightness from light-emitting diodes.
    emitting = producing (sending out)
  • This slug, when disturbed, emits a very fine purplish-red fluid, which stains the water for the space of a foot around.  (source)
    emits = produces (sends out)
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  • The Kindle's electronic ink doesn't emit light like most computer screens. Instead it reflects light like paper.
    emit = send out
  • We were not very fond of the skins, for once they were wet they emitted a musty odor which seeped into our clothing and clung to our skins.†  (source)
    emitted = sent out
  • Something had happened to the bell ... so that instead of emitting a pleasant ding or bong, the doorbell now sent an angry, window-shattering, you-guessed-the-wrong-answer-on-a-game-show kind of buzz through the Buckman house.  (source)
    emitting = sending out
  • If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, that is your success.†  (source)
    emits = sends out
  • "I was thinking of doping a batch of the blue-lamp emitters," I said.†  (source)
  • So ...if I can get the gray plates for about six hundred Glatun super-dreadnoughts, a power plant the size of a small city and a laser emitter system that can match two hundred VDAs in power ...we can get it to move at the pace of a very anemic snail and gut any fleet stupid enough to come in range," he finished with a grin.†  (source)
    emitter = something that sends something out
  • Should paper money, notwithstanding, be emited, the controversies concerning it would be cases arising under the Constitution and not the laws of the United States, in the ordinary signification of the terms.†  (source)
    emited = sent out
    unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled emitted.
  • This was a bad scream, the kind of scream that is usually emitted by mobs waving clubs and leads to eventual inclusion in history books.†  (source)
  • The rafts baked along with their occupants, emitting a bitter smell.†  (source)
    emitting = sending out
  • As I did, the towering computers around me began to emit a cacophony of sound, like a grand orchestra tuning up.  (source)
    emit = send out
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