different between emit vs flatulate

English

Etymology

From Latin ?mitt?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?m?t/, /??m?t/

Verb

emit (third-person singular simple present emits, present participle emitting, simple past and past participle emitted)

1. (transitive) to send out or give off

   Synonyms: outsend, output

Derived terms

• emittable

Related terms

• emission
• emitter

Translations

Anagrams

• -time, METI, it me, item, mite, time

Finnish

Noun

emit

1. nominative plural of emi

Anagrams

• imet

Latin

Verb

emit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of em?

Verb

?mit

1. third-person singular perfect active indicative of em?

English

Etymology

Back-formation from flatulence, attested since the 19th century; ultimately of Latin origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?flætj?le?t/, /?flæt??le?t/

Verb

flatulate (third-person singular simple present flatulates, present participle flatulating, simple past and past participle flatulated)

1. To emit digestive gases from the anus, especially with accompanying sound and smell.
   • 1985, James L. Framo, “Rationale and Techniques of Intensive Family Therapy,” in Intensive Family Therapy, Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy and James L. Framo eds. [1],

     Where else but in his own castle, with his own family, can a person pick his nose, flatulate, lose his temper with impunity, whine, let the child in him emerge—in short, regress and “be himself”?

Usage notes

Garner's Modern English Usage (4th ed) has an entry for flatulate, discussing the attestation history and lexicographic coverage of this verb and some of its synonyms. As with the other main bodily functions (such as urination, defecation, and vomiting), register governs the choice of synonym in a given context; flatulate serves formal registers well (such as in medical publications), whereas fart, although it is easily English's dominant synonym of the semantic field for this concept, is usually considered a casualism suited only to informal registers. Thus flatulate is to fart as urinate is to piss and as defecate is to shit.

Synonyms

• See fart § Synonyms
• See also Thesaurus:flatulate

Coordinate terms

• queef

Derived terms

• flatulation

Translations