Transmit
[trænz'mɪt;trɑːnz-;-ns-] or [træns'mɪt]
Definition
(verb.) send from one person or place to another; 'transmit a message'.
Editor: Tess--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another.
(v. t.) To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity.
Editor: Trudy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Send, remit, forward, send on, send forward.[2]. Transfer, convey, carry, bear, hand over.
Checker: Raffles
Definition
v.t. to send across to another person or place: to suffer to pass through:—pr.p. transmit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. transmit′ted.—n. Transmissibil′ity.—adjs. Transmis′sible Transmit′tible that may be transmitted from one to another or through any body or substance.—ns. Transmis′sion Transmit′tal act of transmitting: the sending from one place or person to another: passage through.—adj. Transmis′sive transmitted: derived from one to another.—ns. Transmit′tance transfer; Transmit′ter.
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Examples
- They understood how difficult it is to transmit knowledge without putting initiative in jeopardy and that quiet int ellect is easily dismayed in the presence of bold speech. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Endless leather belting was used to transmit the power from the motor to the counter-shaft, and from the latter to the driving-wheels, which were the front pair. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They would also take off the signals of the enemy and transmit them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Matter of any kind can transmit sound to the ear. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Stained-glass windows owe their charm and beauty to the presence in the glass of various dyes and pigments which absorb in different amounts some colors from white light and transmit others. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- There are small lateral columns of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nothing, said Rebecca, calmly, unless you will transmit to him my grateful farewell. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The current is transmitted to the electric motors, actuating each of the wheels of the power car and the trailers. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The contraction of the frog's legs may with considerable safety be said to be caused by these mechanical vibrations being transmitted through the conducting wires. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They are invisible rays transmitted through the air in a manner similar to light. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Hence very few of the original species will have transmitted offspring to the fourteen-thousandth generation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This device being a relay, its purpose is to repeat transmitted signals into a local circuit, as before explained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By this facility the impression is transmitted more entire, and excites a greater degree of pride and vanity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The first 9000 words were transmitted in forty-five minutes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A representation of the punched paper for transmitting the word Bain is shown in this diagram. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Each machine was operated by a clerk, who translated the message into telegraphic characters and prepared the transmitting tape by punching the necessary perforations therein. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In addition, there was a special transmitting device in the shape of a musical reed, or buzzer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As has been already seen, he deprived our heroine of the right of transmitting her letters direct by the ambassador's bag. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There is a big distortion in the transmitting of ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Thus, an extended contact was made, which, by transmitting a long impulse, resulted in the marking of a dash upon the receiving tape. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then he throws in the transmitting apparatus, which automatically disconnects the receiving end. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- An emerald looks green because it freely transmits green, but absorbs the other colors of which ordinary daylight is composed. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The telephone not only transmits speech, but transmits it thousands of times faster than its own natural speed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On its top is an object glass which takes in all objects within its range and transmits an image of them through a right-angled prism and down the tube. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The last recording telegraph we shall notice is the one invented by the author, which transmits copies of the handwriting of correspondents. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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