19 September 2014

emote

[ih-moht]

verb (used without object), emoted, emoting.

1. to show or pretend emotion :
to emote over the beauties of nature.
2. to portray emotion in acting, especially exaggeratedly or ineptly; behave theatrically:
The actress emoted for all she was worth.
Origin

1915-1920, Americanism; back formation from emotion

Related forms
emoter, noun
overemote, verb (used without object), overemoted, overemoting.
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Examples from the web for emote

– Computer power is a primary bottleneck to creating robots that can speak and emote.
– In fact, it’s this missing-hand-turned-evil that’s pictured above, encouraging its former owner to emote.
– They want him to emote and perform the proper theatrical gestures so they can see their emotions enacted on the public stage.

Anagram

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Today’s aphorism

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

– Charlie Chaplin

On this day

19 September – International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

19 September 1952 – Charlie Chaplin exiled from the United States because of his anti-war and humanitarian beliefs which conflicted with McCarthy’s ‘reds under the bed’ policy.

19 September 1959 – USSR President Nikita Khrushchev banned from visiting Disneyland … ironically 31 years after Mickey Mouse debuted on screen. The reason given was that the Los Angeles Police Chief couldn’t provide adequate security.

19 September 1982 – birth of the emoticon. At 11.44am on this day, a computer scientist by the name of Scott Fahlman suggested on a bulletin board forum that the now iconic 🙂 be used to indicate a post was ‘not serious’. It has now come to also mean happy, as well as not serious for when people post comments, emails etc … or when they think a smiley will help ease a flame …

19 September 2003 – death of Slim Dusty AO, MBE, Australian country music singer, song-writer and producer. He was born as David Gordon Kirkpatrick and adopted the name of Slim Dusty at 11 years of age. He released his first record when he was 18. In 1957, he released ‘The Pub With No Beer‘, which became the biggest selling Australian song to that time, and the first Australian single to go gold. He won 36 Golden Guitar Awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. In 2000, he recorded his 100th album, ‘Looking Forward, Looking Back‘. He is the only artist in the world to have recorded 100 albums with the same record label (EMI). Born 13 June 1927.