Communications
[kəmju:ni'keiʃ(ə)nz]
Definition
(noun.) the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); 'communications is his major field of study'.
Typed by Lillian--From WordNet
Examples
- To these communications Peggotty replied as promptly, if not as concisely, as a merchant's clerk. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That being the terminus of his railroad communications, it is probable he was directed to remain there awaiting orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was making no great roads, setting up no sure sea communications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- By this, however, the enemy was defeated in his designs upon Sherman's line of communications. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- If I thought you one whit like Madame Ginevra, I would not sit here waiting for your communications. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The communications were renewed from day to day: they always ran on the same theme--herself, her loves, and woes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- All over the oceans there was the same reduction in the time and the same increase in the certainty of human communications. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I was thrown into a most painful state of uncertainty by these communications. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I then had no fears for my communications, and if I moved quickly enough could turn upon Pemberton before he could attack me in the rear. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Indeed, Mr. Casaubon was not used to expect that he should have to repeat or revise his communications of a practical or personal kind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She refused to read any communications from Greece, desiring me only to mention when any arrived, and whether the wanderers were well. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At length a drawing came, with an address where communications might be sent, and no artist's name affixed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Buell was marching through a hostile region and had to have his communications thoroughly guarded back to a base of supplies. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Burnside had been cut off from telegraphic communications. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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