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
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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
- Perhaps you will take Mr. Pickwick away,' said the Serjeant, 'and--and- -and--hear anything Mr. Pickwick may wish to communicate. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I had arranged with Mrs. Clements that she should communicate her London address, in Anne's interests, to Lady Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But there was nothing to be done, saving to communicate to Wemmick what I had that night found out, and to remind him that we waited for his hint. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Says your speaking countenance to me: “Why didn't you communicate that, when I first come in this evening? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I saw her before I came up here, and I have arranged to communicate with her to-night. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Surely, he said, she might have brought herself to communicate with me before now, and confess honestly what Wildeve was to her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She must communicate the painful truth, however, and as soon as possible. Jane Austen. Emma.
- These, with an explanation of the phenomenon, he communicated in a letter to his friend, Sir John Pringle, which is among his philosophical pieces. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Finally the fire communicated with our breastworks, in places. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I have communicated, both personally and by letter, with the club,' resumed Mr. Pickwick, 'acquainting them with my intention. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- From facts communicated to me by the Rev. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Such whims are only impressive as we originate them, I think; they are not to be communicated. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The other servants were soon alarmed, and we sent for the local police, who instantly communicated with London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Information of both outrages was communicated to the police, and the needful investigations were pursued, I believe, with great energy. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I should have preferred writing my report, instead of communicating it by word of mouth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; I unlocked and unbolted that door, and got a file from among Joe's tools. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Through this person I also discovered a means of communicating with the servant, Hester Pinhorn. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- A is a steam pipe communicating with the boiler, B another pipe receiving steam from A through small holes and terminating in a cone. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is the manner of communicating these diseases; it is the subtle way in which they go about. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There was no indispensable necessity for my communicating with Joe by letter, inasmuch as he sat beside me and we were alone. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The bridge--the bridge which communicates with the castle--have they won that pass? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Fire also communicates the sensation of pleasure at one distance, and that of pain at another. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Beleaguered Paris communicates with outer world through Micro-Photographs. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- His satisfaction communicates itself to a third saunterer through the long vacation in Kenge and Carboy's office, to wit, Young Smallweed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- By little and little he has been induced to trust in that rotten reed, and it communicates some portion of its rottenness to everything around him. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Nor is the one who communicates left unaffected. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In Figure 120 the water of a small but rapid mountain stream is made to rotate a large wheel, which in turn communicates its motion through belts to a distant sawmill or grinder. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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