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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emanate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sound
▪ A terrible roaring sound began to emanate from the doomed building, and the bystanders were ordered to get well away.
▪ As if the sound were simply emanating from our bodies, our bodies only vessels for sound.
▪ Over the years, several people had reported hearing strange sounds emanating from it.
▪ Banging sounds emanating from the boiler may be due to a build-up of scale or to air being drawn into the system.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bould is a wonderful young actor; he emanates a brooding loneliness without speaking a word.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Steven always knew whether Jean was home from the smells emanating from the kitchen.
▪ The energy emanating was such that it seemed as if the eyes of the nation were turned on the state.
▪ There are eight long rays emanating from the head; but without a text, uncertainty remains as to their precise identification.
▪ There was a subtle power emanating from our camp.
▪ Typical among them was the difficulty the Stagirite encountered in his attempt to explain the light emanating from the stars.
▪ Whimperings, body movements, tail-wags, even little yelps are all heard to emanate from sleeping canines.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emanate

Emanate \Em"a*nate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Emanated; p. pr. & vb. n. Emanating.] [L. emanare, emanatum, to emanate; e out + manare to flow, prob. for madnare, and akin to madere to be wet, drip, madidus wet, drenched, drunk, Gr. ?, ?, wet, ? to be wet, Skr. mad to boil, matta drunk. Cf. Emane.]

  1. To issue forth from a source; to flow out from more or less constantly; as, fragrance emanates from flowers.

  2. To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate.

    That subsisting from of government from which all special laws emanate.
    --De Quincey.

    Syn: To flow; arise; proceed; issue; originate.

Emanate

Emanate \Em"a*nate\, a. Issuing forth; emanant. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emanate

1680s, "to flow out," from Latin emanatus, past participle of emanare "flow out," figuratively "arise from, proceed from" (see emanation). Related: Emanated; emanating.

Wiktionary
emanate

vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To come from a source; issue from. 2 (context transitive rare English) To send or give out; manifest.

WordNet
emanate

  1. v. proceed or issue forth, as from a source; "Water emanates from this hole in the ground"

  2. give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke" [syn: exhale, give forth]

Usage examples of "emanate".

Her bare foot dragged across it, abrading the skin and producing a burning pain that somehow seemed far worse than any of the aches and stings emanating from the other injuries Mrs.

Hippolytus denote an immense advance beyond the Apologists, which, paradoxically enough, results both from the progress of Christian Hellenism and from a deeper study of the Pauline theology, that is, emanates from the controversy with Gnosticism.

The chorus of tiny cries that emanated from all the living things around the City had grown appallingly as he had drawn nearer.

Paracelsus, the great Reformer in medicine, discovered magnetism long before Mesmer, and pushed to its last consequences this luminous discovery, or rather this initiation into the magic of the ancients, who understood the grand magical agent better than we do, and did not regard the Astral Light, Azoth, the universal magnetism of the Sages, as an animal and particular fluid, emanating only from certain special beings.

Captain Bowen could reply, a loud noise emanated from beyond the south ridge, a whomp-whomp-whomp.

Then he had walked up the byre, leaving her puzzled and frightened and feeling very exposed to whatever it was that emanated from him.

It is, however, not difficult, combining the different rays of light that emanate from the different Sanctuaries, to learn the genius and the object of these secret ceremonies.

At first I expressed some perplexity at the questions having emanated from her royal highness, and I told her afterwards that I understood cabalism, but that I could not interpret the meaning of the answers obtained through it, and that her highness must ask new questions likely to render the answers easier to be understood.

She snapped open her fan, as Coy had shown her, held it under her chin, and began waving it delicately, glad of the slight breeze to dispel the varieties of aromas emanating from her male companions.

No one asks whether it emanates from the Deity, or is created out of nothing, or is generated like the body, and the issue of the souls of the father and the mother.

The INTRODUCTION says: It is said in many places in the Sohar, that all things that emanate or are created have their root above.

He, from Whom all emanated, created Adam Kadmon, consisting of all the worlds, so that in him should be somewhat from those above, and somewhat from those below.

God Supreme, from whom all other gods emanate or are by Him created, 597-l.

Spiritual beings, emanating from God, are enveloped in the duad, and therefore receive only illusory impressions.

We are required to keep none other, when the law that we are called on to obey is indeed a law, by having emanated from the only source of power, the People.