intercommunicate
Americanverb (used without object)
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to communicate mutually, as people.
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to afford passage from one to another, as rooms.
verb (used with object)
verb
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to communicate mutually
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to interconnect, as two rooms
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of intercommunicate
First recorded in 1580–90, intercommunicate is from the Medieval Latin word intercommūnicātus (past participle). See inter-, communicate
Example Sentences
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All four are expected to be able to intercommunicate.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2018
He had scarcely left the deck, however, before the boat came riding by on the buoyant waves, both parties having been deceived as to the distance, by their inability to intercommunicate.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia or, The Recluse of Jamestown. Vol. II by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
What an immeasurable profit it would be for the human race if we were able to intercommunicate by means of one language.
From Esperanto: Hearings before the Committee on Education by Richard Bartholdt
The roads by which the various detachments of the army could intercommunicate for concentration upon any given point were numerous and well kept up, and were familiar to all commanding and staff officers.
From The Campaign of Chancellorsville by Theodore Ayrault Dodge
These marshes are threaded, cobweb fashion, by myriads of lines of water and mud that intercommunicate.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
As nearly all ships' cabins on those hot routes do, ours intercommunicated by a metal grill for ventilating purposes, and a word spoken in one cabin above a whisper could be heard in the next.
From The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy
Then they intercommunicated thought, sentiment, and emotion with one another as God had communicated to them.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
In Philadelphia in 1902 he set himself up as a maker of batteries, battery testers and intercommunicating telephone systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pilot-captain talks with his crew over the intercommunicating phone.
From Time Magazine Archive
The practice of the Dean Company, for instance, is as follows in regard to trunking between intercommunicating systems and main offices with common-battery equipment.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen
The main-office operator signals the intercommunicating system by ringing, the same as for a regular subscriber's line.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen
An intercommunicating system may be either magneto or common-battery, according to whether it uses magneto or common-battery telephones.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen
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