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com⋅mu⋅ni⋅cate

  [kuh-myoo-ni-keyt] verb, -cat⋅ed, -cat⋅ing.
Use communicate in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information; to communicate one's happiness.
2. to give to another; impart; transmit: to communicate a disease.
3. to administer the Eucharist to.
4. Archaic. to share in or partake of.
–verb (used without object)
5. to give or interchange thoughts, feelings, information, or the like, by writing, speaking, etc.: They communicate with each other every day.
6. to express thoughts, feelings, or information easily or effectively.
7. to be joined or connected: The rooms communicated by means of a hallway.
8. to partake of the Eucharist.
9. Obsolete. to take part or participate.
Origin:
1520–30; < L commūnicātus, ptp. of commūnicāre to impart, make common, equiv. to commūn(is) common + -icāre v. suffix

Synonyms:
1. divulge, announce, disclose, reveal. Communicate, impart denote giving to a person or thing a part or share of something, now usually something immaterial, as knowledge, thoughts, hopes, qualities, or properties. Communicate, the more common word, implies often an indirect or gradual transmission: to communicate information by means of letters, telegrams, etc.; to communicate one's wishes to someone else. Impart usually implies directness of action: to impart information.

Antonyms:
1. withhold, conceal.
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com·mu·ni·cate   (kə-myōō'nĭ-kāt')   
v.   com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing, com·mu·ni·cates

v.   tr.
    1. To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office.
    2. To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown.
  2. To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit: a carrier who communicated typhus.
v.   intr.
  1. To have an interchange, as of ideas.
  2. To express oneself in such a way that one is readily and clearly understood: "That ability to communicate was strange in a man given to long, awkward silences" (Anthony Lewis).
  3. Ecclesiastical To receive Communion.
  4. To be connected, one with another: apartments that communicate.

[Latin commūnicāre, commūnicāt-, from commūnis, common; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Communicate

Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Communicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Communicating.] [L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Commune, v. i.]

1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.]

To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson

2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.

Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor.

3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

4. To administer the communion to. [R.]

She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer. Taylor.

Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.

He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. --Clarendon.

Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known.

Usage: To Communicate, Impart, Reveal. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret.

Communicate

Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. i. 1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.

Ye did communicate with my affliction. --Philip. iv. 4.

2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid.

To do good and to communicate forget not. --Heb. xiii. 16.

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

Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. --Hakluyt.

The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. --Arbuthnot.

4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.

The primitive Christians communicated every day. --Jer. Taylor.
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Language Translation for : communicate
Spanish: comunicar,
German: mitteilen,
Japanese: 伝える
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Main Entry: com·mu·ni·cate
Pronunciation: k&-'myü-n&-"kAt
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: -cat·ed;-cat·ing
: to cause to pass from one to another communicated>
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