| Main Entry: | emission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issuance, diffusion |
Synonyms: |
discharge, ejaculation, ejection, emanation, exhalation, exudation, issue, radiation, shedding, transmission, utterance, venting |
Antonyms: |
concealment, containment, refrain, repression, suppression, withholding |
| Main Entry: | beam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ray of light |
Synonyms: |
bar, beacon, chink, column, dartle, emission, finger, flicker, glare, gleam, glimmer, glint, glitter, glow, laser, radiation, ray, shaft, shimmer, shoot, sparkle, streak, stream, twinkle |
| Notes: | ray is distinguished from beam in that it describes a smaller quantity of light (beam being a collection of parallel rays) |
| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pouring forth |
Synonyms: |
elimination, emission, emptying, excretion, exudation, flow, ooze, pus, secretion, seepage, shower, suppuration, vent, voiding |
Antonyms: |
damming |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disappearance |
Synonyms: |
diffusion, disintegration, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissolution, distribution, emission, extravagance, improvidence, radiation, scattering, spread, vanishing, wastage, waste |
Antonyms: |
appearance |
| Main Entry: | effusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | outpouring |
Synonyms: |
address, diffusion, discharge, effluence, effluvium, efflux, emanation, emission, exudate, gush, gushing, ooze, outflow, pouring, shedding, stream, verbosity, wordiness |
| Main Entry: | emanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emergence, discharge |
Synonyms: |
arising, beginning, derivation, drainage, effluence, effluent, efflux, effusion, ejaculation, emerging, emission, escape, exhalation, exudation, flow, flowing, gush, issuance, issuing, leakage, oozing, origin, origination, outflow, outpour, proceeding, radiation, springing, welling |
Antonyms: |
taking, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | ejaculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an orgasm |
Synonyms: |
climax, copulation, discharge, emanation, emission, secretion |
| Main Entry: | radiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissemination |
Synonyms: |
broadcast, circulation, diffraction, diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, distribution, divarication, divergence, emission, polarization, propagation, ramification, scattering, spread, transmission |