Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
EMIT
emit, breathe, pass off
(verb) expel (gases or odors)
utter, emit, let out, let loose
(verb) express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); “She let out a big heavy sigh”; “He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand”
emit, give out, give off
(verb) give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.; “The ozone layer blocks some harmful rays which the sun emits”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
emit (third-person singular simple present emits, present participle emitting, simple past and past participle emitted)
(transitive) to send out or give off
Synonyms: outsend, output
Anagrams
• -time, it me, item, mite, time
Source: Wiktionary
E*mit", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Emitting.] Etym: [L. emittere to send out; e out + mittere to send. See Mission.]
1. To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.
2. To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit. No State shall . . . emit bills of credit. Const. of the U. S.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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RUE
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