[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["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 action or emotion using a command or code:To emote, type a forward slash and one of the commands from the list in chat."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["(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 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."]}]