communicate
to impart knowledge of; make known: to communicate information;to communicate one's happiness.
to give to another; impart; transmit: to communicate a disease.
to administer the Eucharist to.
Archaic. to share in or partake of.
to give or interchange thoughts, feelings, information, or the like, by writing, speaking, etc.: They communicate with each other every day.
to express thoughts, feelings, or information easily or effectively.
to be joined or connected: The rooms communicated by means of a hallway.
to partake of the Eucharist.
Obsolete. to take part or participate.
Origin of communicate
1synonym study For communicate
Other words for communicate
Opposites for communicate
Other words from communicate
- non·com·mu·ni·cat·ing, adjective
- o·ver·com·mu·ni·cate, verb, o·ver·com·mu·ni·cat·ed, o·ver·com·mu·ni·cat·ing.
- pre·com·mu·ni·cate, verb, pre·com·mu·ni·cat·ed, pre·com·mu·ni·cat·ing.
- un·com·mu·ni·cat·ing, adjective
- well-com·mu·ni·cat·ed, adjective
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How to use communicate in a sentence
We have a healthy marriage and communicate easily and freely.
Carolyn Hax: How to improve on ‘I cook, you clean’ without stirring the pot | Carolyn Hax | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostThe intensity of such moments may result from how the nose communicates with the brain.
Aromas can evoke beloved journeys — or voyages not yet taken | Jen Rose Smith | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostIn October 2019, Marshall said, the agency began communicating with San Diego Gas & Electric about the possibility of getting residential utility usage data.
Vacancy Tax Study Is Giving City Officials Déjà Vu | Lisa Halverstadt and Andrew Keatts | February 10, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoPrior to that, Google tested a feature to communicate to customers labeling your future open date for new businesses.
Google officially displays years in business in local pack | Barry Schwartz | February 10, 2021 | Search Engine LandThe coronavirus has reinforced the Internet as the fabric of modern American life, a luxury-turned-necessity for a generation now forced to work, learn and communicate primarily through the Web.
Citizens, perhaps, need to feel like they can communicate something to science.
You will have your beloved father back sooner than you think, and you can visit and communicate with him all the while.
Abramoff’s Advice for Virginia’s New Jailhouse Guv | Tim Mak, Jackie Kucinich | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWe also found messengers who could communicate the truth of our lives.
As soon as I was able to communicate, I never said I wanted to be a girl.
Exclusive: Michael Phelps’s Intersex Self-Proclaimed Girlfriend, Taylor Lianne Chandler, Tells All | Aurora Snow | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOnion routers refers to the TOR network, a system that allows users to mask their location and communicate anonymously online.
ISIS Keeps Getting Better at Dodging U.S. Spies | Shane Harris, Noah Shachtman | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd now, monsieur, if you will communicate to me the nature of your affair, you shall find me entirely at your service.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniTerror and fascination caught him; he turned away lest she should reach his secret and communicate her own.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodTredwell enters, and seems to have something of importance to communicate to Sir Rupert in private.
The channel lies between two sandbanks, which communicate with either shore.
The vicar never presumed to enter his wife's room without knocking; he evidently had something to communicate.
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British Dictionary definitions for communicate
/ (kəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪt) /
to impart (knowledge) or exchange (thoughts, feelings, or ideas) by speech, writing, gestures, etc
(tr usually foll by to) to allow (a feeling, emotion, etc) to be sensed (by), willingly or unwillingly; transmit (to): the dog communicated his fear to the other animals
(intr) to have a sympathetic mutual understanding
(intr usually foll by with) to make or have a connecting passage or route; connect
(tr) to transmit (a disease); infect
(intr) Christianity to receive or administer Communion
Origin of communicate
1Derived forms of communicate
- communicator, noun
- communicatory, adjective
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