<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object)<ul><li>Emoted, emoting.</li><li>To show or pretend emotion: to emote over the beauties of nature.</li><li>To portray emotion in acting, especially exaggeratedly or ineptly; behave theatrically: The actress emoted for all she was worth.</li><li>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.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Digital Technology: (in an online chat or video game)<ul><li>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.</li><li>(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.</li><li>(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.</li></ul></li></ul>