3 uses
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Definition
to send out — such as sound or light
- The truncated conical crater summit of the diminutive volcano emitted a vertical and serpentine fume redolent of aromatic oriental incense.Episode 17 — Ithaca (57% in)
- But as he confidently anticipated there was not a sign of a Jehu plying for hire anywhere to be seen except a fourwheeler, probably engaged by some fellows inside on the spree, outside the North Star hotel and there was no symptom of its budging a quarter of an inch when Mr Bloom, who was anything but a professional whistler, endeavoured to hail it by emitting a kind of a whistle, holding his arms arched over his head, twice.Episode 16 — Eumaeus (2% in)
- The cause of a brief sharp unforeseen heard loud lone crack emitted by the insentient material of a strainveined timber table.Episode 17 — Ithaca (89% in)
There are no more uses of "emit" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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