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emote
[ ih-moht ]
verb (used without object)
- to show or pretend emotion:
to emote over the beauties of nature.
- to portray emotion in acting, especially exaggeratedly or ineptly; behave theatrically:
The actress emoted for all she was worth.
- Digital Technology. (in an online chat or video game) to give a conventionalized descriptive account of an action or emotion or prompt one’s in-game avatar to perform an animated action or emotion using a command or code:
To emote, type a forward slash and one of the commands from the list in chat.
noun
- (in an online chat or video game) a typed command or code that is translated into a descriptive account of an action or emotion, or that causes one’s in-game avatar to perform an action or emotion:
Standard emotes in online video games allow you to cheer, greet, and thank other characters.
- (in a video game) the animation that is performed when such a code is entered:
The first thing I do in a new game is check out my character’s dance emote.
- (in an online chat) a posted image, especially on the Twitch streaming video channel, that has a fixed but nontransparent meaning in the video gaming community:
Classic emotes feature popular streamers making faces.
emote
/ ɪˈ³¾É™ÊŠ³Ù /
verb
- intr to display exaggerated emotion, as in acting; behave theatrically
Derived Forms
- ±ðˈ³¾´Ç³Ù±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±ð·³¾´Ç³Ùİù noun
- ´Çv±ð°ù·±ð·³¾´Ç³Ù±ð verb (used without object) overemoted overemoting
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of emote1
Example Sentences
Theater can seem trivial to people, people standing onstage and emoting in some way, but it does so much for a person.
In a YouTube video of this final L.A. show, Zapata often closes her eyes and vividly emotes the pain, anger and joy in her music.
With the character’s green skin shrouded under shades of navy color grading, it’s almost impossible to see Erivo emote in scenes where it counts the most.
What Beyoncé is doing, Palmer says, is performance art — “emoting something that is meant to be an aspirational exploration of feminism, gender-nonconformity but still softness, being assertive, having her peace in chaos with ‘Lemonade.’â€
“For us the only question was, ‘Will Brits be able to emote in the same way as people in the U.S. have done?’ †she said.
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