Communicate

[kə'mjuːnɪkeɪt] or [kə'mjunɪket]

Definition

(verb.) transmit thoughts or feelings; 'He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist'.

(verb.) transmit information ; 'Please communicate this message to all employees'; 'pass along the good news'.

(verb.) administer Communion; in church.

(verb.) be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; 'He and his sons haven't communicated for years'; 'Do you communicate well with your advisor?'.

(verb.) join or connect; 'The rooms communicated'.

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Definition

(v. i.) To share in common; to participate in.

(v. i.) To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.

(v. i.) To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

(v. i.) To administer the communion to.

(v. i.) To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.

(v. i.) To give alms, sympathy, or aid.

(v. i.) To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.

(v. i.) To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Impart, give, bestow, CONFER.[2]. Disclose, reveal, divulge, declare, announce, make known.

v. n. [1]. Have connection (by a passage).[2]. Correspond, have intercourse.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Adjoin, join, touch, reveal, disclose, divulge, promulgate, publish, attach,co-operate, unite, impart, tell, announce, declare

ANT:Separate, disjoin, recede, stop, suppress, conceal, secrete, withhold, reserve

Inputed by Laura

Definition

v.t. to give a share of impart: to reveal: to bestow.—v.i. to have something in common with another: to have communication: to have intercourse: to partake of Holy Communion.—ns. Communicabil′ity Commū′nicableness the state of being communicable.—adj. Commū′nicable that may be communicated: affable.—adv. Commū′nicably.—ns. Commū′nicant one who partakes of Holy Communion; Communicā′tion act of communicating: that which is communicated: intercourse: correspondence: a means of communicating a connecting passage or channel.—adj. Commū′nicative inclined to communicate or give information: unreserved.—adv. Commū′nicatively.—n. Commū′nicativeness the quality of being communicative.—adj. Commū′nicatory imparting knowledge.

Editor: Margaret

Examples

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