Sekirov Dictionary

communicate

/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/

verb 10
adjective 1
forms 7

verb10

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to share ideas, feelings and information with other people, with or without words
- Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
- I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
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To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
- It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
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To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
- to communicate motion by means of a crank
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To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
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To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].
- The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
To impart.
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To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- The ‘better sort’ might communicate on a separate day; and in some parishes even the quality of the communion wine varied with the social quality of the recipients. — 1971
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To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- [W]hen she [the church] can understand that such an emendation is made, and the man is really reformed, she can pronounce him pardon'd, or vvhich is all one, she may communicate him. — 1660
To share
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(no longer used) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
- We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.

adjective1

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(no longer used) Communicated, (made) commune, joined.
- The property of the manhood is communicate with the other nature. — 1561

forms

communicated · communicating · communicates · communicateth · communicatest · more communicate · most communicate

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