📖 E — The English dictionary · page 13

emir — Everyday, meaning 1: An emir is a ruler, a governor or a prince in some Arab lands.↗ It is an old title, found in fairy tales of the East.↗ Example: The emir gave the prince a palace.↗ · The emir ruled the desert town.↗ · The king's emirs bowed before him.↗

emissary — Everyday, meaning 1: An emissary is a person sent to carry a message or do an official errand for someone else.↗ Example: The king sent an emissary to the neighbouring land.↗ · The fairy's emissary brought a letter.↗ · Fortune's emissary knocked at the door.↗

emission — Everyday, meaning 1: Gas, heat, light or another substance sent out into the air: car emissions.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The act of sending something out: the emission of light from a star.↗ Example: Cars produce emissions that pollute the air.↗ · Electric buses have zero emissions from the exhaust.↗ · Countries agreed to cut carbon emissions.↗ · The emission of light from the bulb makes the room bright.↗ · Trees take in some of the carbon dioxide from emissions.↗ · If a car gives off 2 kg of gas a day, its emission in a week is 14 kg.↗

emit — Everyday, meaning 1: To emit is to send out light, heat, sound, gas or a smell.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To emit a sound means to make it, like a cry or beep.↗ Example: The Sun emits light and heat.↗ · Cars emit gases that pollute the air.↗ · The smoke alarm emitted a loud beep.↗ · Fireflies emit light at night.↗ · The rotten egg emitted a horrible smell.↗ · The puppy emitted a little whine.↗ · The first was a herring's head, which could emit light in the darkness.↗

emmental — Everyday, meaning 1: Emmental is a yellow Swiss cheese with big round holes in it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It has a mild, nutty taste and melts well, so it is used in sandwiches and fondue.↗ Example: Emmental is the cheese with the big holes.↗ · I had a ham and Emmental sandwich for lunch.↗ · The holes in Emmental come from bubbles of gas.↗ · Mice in cartoons always eat cheese that looks like Emmental.↗ · We melted Emmental on toast.↗ · Dad bought Emmental for the fondue.↗ · Emmental comes from Switzerland.↗ · Americans often just call it Swiss cheese.↗

emoji — Everyday, meaning 1: An emoji is a small picture or face used in text messages, emails and online posts to show a feeling or idea, like a smiling face or a thumbs-up.↗ Example: She sent me a smiley emoji.↗ · A thumbs-up emoji means OK.↗ · I added a heart emoji to my message to Grandma.↗ · Some emojis can be misunderstood.↗ · There are emojis for food, animals and weather.↗ · Don't use emojis to be unkind to people.↗

emollient — Everyday, meaning 1: An emollient is a cream or lotion that makes dry skin soft and smooth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) Emollient words or behaviour are calming and gentle, meant to stop people getting angry.↗ Example: The doctor gave me an emollient for my eczema.↗ · Rub the emollient cream into dry patches of skin.↗ · Emollients help skin keep its water in.↗ · Use an emollient after a bath.↗ · The head teacher spoke in an emollient tone to calm the angry parents.↗ · (formal) The minister gave an emollient reply to the protesters.↗ · Grandma uses an emollient on her hands in winter.↗ · Emollient creams can make the bath slippery, so be careful.↗

emote — Everyday, meaning 1: To show feelings in a strong, often over-the-top way, especially when acting.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (gaming, slang) An «emote» is an animation or small picture that a character in a video game does to show a feeling, like a dance or a wave.↗ Example: The actor emoted wildly, waving his arms about.↗ · In drama class we practised how to emote without shouting.↗ · She did a victory dance emote after winning the game.↗ · He spent his pocket money on a new emote.↗ · The singer emoted every word of the sad song.↗ · Chat filled with laughing emotes.↗

emoticon — Everyday, meaning 1: A small face made from keyboard symbols, like :-) or :(, used in messages to show a feeling.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) An emoji: a little picture showing a face or thing.↗ Example: She ended her message with a smiley emoticon :-).↗ · Emoticons were invented before emojis.↗ · Turn your head sideways to see the emoticon's face.↗ · A wink emoticon ;-) shows that you are joking.↗ · Don't use too many emoticons in a formal email.↗ · The emoticon :( shows that you are sad.↗

emotion — Everyday, meaning 1: An emotion is a strong feeling such as happiness, sadness, fear, anger, love or surprise.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Emotion is strong feeling in general, as when someone speaks «with emotion».↗ Example: Fear is a powerful emotion.↗ · It's okay to show your emotions.↗ · She felt mixed emotions: happy to move, sad to leave her friends.↗ · His voice shook with emotion as he read the poem.↗ · We drew faces to show different emotions.↗ · Animals like dogs show emotions too.↗ · Writers use actions to show a character's emotions.↗ · But when at length her talisman was discovered in one of the jars her emotion was so great that she fainted away.↗

emotional — Everyday, meaning 1: Emotional means about feelings: emotional problems, emotional health.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An emotional person shows strong feelings easily, such as crying or getting excited.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An emotional event or story makes people feel strong feelings.↗ Example: Mum got emotional at my sister's graduation and cried.↗ · The film had a very emotional ending.↗ · Talking to a friend gives you emotional support.↗ · He felt emotional when his dog came home.↗ · Being kind helps people's emotional health.↗ · It was an emotional goodbye at the airport.↗ · She's very emotional and laughs and cries easily.↗ · As for keeping myself dry, there is evidently no one here who can at all appreciate an emotional nature.↗

empathy — Everyday, meaning 1: The ability to understand and share the feelings of another person, as if you were in their place.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Feeling with someone, not just for them.↗ Example: Empathy means putting yourself in someone else's shoes.↗ · She showed empathy when her friend's dog died.↗ · Good doctors have empathy for their patients.↗ · Reading stories can help us build empathy.↗ · He lacked empathy and laughed when Tom fell.↗ · Our teacher asked us to show empathy to the new boy.↗

emperor — Everyday, meaning 1: A man who rules an empire, a group of many countries or lands, such as the Roman emperors.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Bible) Caesar Augustus was the Roman emperor when Jesus was born.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The emperor penguin is the biggest kind of penguin.↗ Example: Julius Caesar's adopted son became the first Roman emperor.↗ · The emperor ruled many lands.↗ · In the story, a child shouted that the emperor had no clothes.↗ · Emperor penguins huddle together to keep warm.↗ · China was once ruled by emperors.↗ · The emperor ordered a census of the whole world.↗ · The most generally accepted modern opinion is that the author was Rabbi Akiba, who lived in the time of the Emperor Hadrian, a.d.↗ 120.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · The most generally accepted modern opinion is that the author was Rabbi Akiba, who lived in the time of the Emperor Hadrian, A.D.↗ 120.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

emphasis — Everyday, meaning 1: Special importance or attention given to something: «The school puts emphasis on reading».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Extra force given to a word or syllable when speaking, to show it matters: «Put the emphasis on "not"».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In writing, a way of showing importance, such as bold or italic print.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Emphasis can also mean a strong, forceful way of doing something, not only speaking.↗ Example: Our coach puts a lot of emphasis on teamwork.↗ · "I did NOT break it," she said with emphasis.↗ · In this lesson, the emphasis is on fractions.↗ · Italics are used for emphasis in the story.↗ · The word "photograph" has the emphasis on the first part.↗ · The school places emphasis on kindness.↗ · The cleric nodded with savage emphasis.↗

emphasise — Everyday, meaning 1: To show that something is especially important.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To say a word or sound more strongly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To make something more noticeable, like a line or a colour.↗ Example: The teacher emphasised the importance of checking our answers.↗ · Underline the words you want to emphasise.↗ · She emphasised the word «never».↗ · Bright colours emphasise the eyes in the painting.↗ · The firefighter emphasised: get out, stay out, call 999.↗ · He emphasised that the test was only for practice.↗

emphasize — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: To give special importance or attention to something by stressing it.↗ Example: This is at variance with tlie Sefer Yetzirah, which emphasizes the doctrine of creation from nothing by the statement: "He (Godi formed existence out of void, something out of nothing" (Mishnah '22i.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · The Sefer Yetzirah*) emphasizes that the number of the double letters is no less and no more than ten, and the number of the simple letters no less and no more than twelve.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗

emphatic — Everyday, meaning 1: Emphatic means said or done strongly and clearly, to show you really mean it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An emphatic win is a very clear win by a lot.↗ Example: Her answer was an emphatic «No!»↗ · He nodded in an emphatic way.↗ · The team had an emphatic 6–0 win.↗ · She emphatically denied eating the last biscuit.↗ · Use an exclamation mark for an emphatic sentence.↗ · The teacher was emphatic that phones stay in bags.↗

empire — Everyday, meaning 1: A group of countries or lands ruled by one ruler or government, often an emperor or empress.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A very large business or group of businesses controlled by one person or company: «a toy empire».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) An area that someone controls: «The kitchen is Dad's empire».↗ Example: The Roman Empire built roads across Europe.↗ · Jesus was born when the Roman Empire ruled Judea.↗ · She built a pizza empire from one small shop.↗ · The British Empire once ruled many lands around the world.↗ · The empire fell after many wars.↗ · My little brother's empire is the sandpit.↗ · Is there such a bird in my empire? and even in my garden?↗ · Dragon (Tali) is in the world like a king upon his throne, the sphere is in the year like a king in the empire, and the heart is in the human body like a king [42] in war.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

employ — Everyday, meaning 1: To employ someone is to give them a job and pay them.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To employ something is to use it: employ a method.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To employ yourself means to keep yourself busy doing something.↗ Example: The bakery employs six people.↗ · My mum is employed by the council.↗ · The factory employs 200 workers.↗ · (formal) Employ a suitable method to solve the problem.↗ · They employed a builder to fix the roof.↗ · The shop employs extra staff at Christmas.↗ · You can employ yourself in embroidering your wedding gown.↗ · It is unclear if the author or editor of this section is employing Hebrew terms in a novel way, is unfamiliar with human physiology, or is using animal organs to some symbolic effect, or some combination thereof.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

employed — Everyday, meaning 1: Having a paid job.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (past form) Gave someone a job and paid them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Used.↗ e.g. "the method employed".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Employed can also mean kept busy doing something.↗ Example: My aunt is employed at the hospital.↗ · The bakery employed six people.↗ · He is self-employed and runs his own shop.↗ · The method employed in the experiment was simple.↗ · She was employed as a lifeguard for the summer.↗ · The farm employed extra workers at harvest.↗ · Next morning early, Jack asked how he'd be employed that day.↗ · There is also a spatial-anatomical parallelism between the terms employed by the SY: the tongue concealed above, the genitals concealed below.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · It is certain that the Greeks employed zero in the second century B. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And these are the singers, heads of fathers' houses of the Levites, who dwelt in the chambers and were free from other service; for they were employed in their work day and night.↗ (Writings 1CH.9.33, JPS 1917)↗

employee — Everyday, meaning 1: An employee is a person who works for a company or another person and is paid for it.↗ Example: The shop has 12 employees.↗ · She is an employee at the bank.↗ · Employees must wash their hands before cooking.↗ · He was named employee of the month.↗ · Each employee earns 15 dollars an hour.↗ · The company hired 3 new employees.↗ · Only employees may enter this room.↗ · If 8 employees each work 5 hours, they work 40 hours in total.↗

employer — Everyday, meaning 1: An employer is a person or company that pays people to work for them.↗ Example: Mum's employer gave her a day off for her birthday.↗ · The hospital is the biggest employer in our town.↗ · An employer must pay workers fairly.↗ · The employer interviewed five people for the job.↗ · Dad's employer let him work from home.↗ · Employers must keep workers safe.↗ · If an employer pays ten pounds an hour for eight hours, the worker earns eighty pounds.↗ · He did his duty to his family, his employer, his friends, and to the public at large.↗