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
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relate, connect, convey, advertise, disseminate, transfer, interact, write, impart, transmit, tell, disclose, broadcast, reveal, correspond, inform, contact, suggest, publicize, conferExamples from the Web for communicate
Contemporary Examples of communicate
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.
We 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.
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Onion routers refers to the TOR network, a system that allows users to mask their location and communicate anonymously online.
Historical Examples of communicate
She must communicate the dread defiling fact with her own lips!
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
What she saw clear as day it could not be hard to communicate to one who loved as he loved!
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Not hearing from you, we shall try to communicate this news in some other way.
It Happened in EgyptC. N. Williamson
He says they would not want to communicate with us if they had such trivial things to say.'
Echoes of the WarJ. M. Barrie
But monsieur I have nothing to communicate to you concerning the disappearance of your friends.
The Inn at the Red OakLatta Griswold
communicate
- 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
Word Origin for communicate
Word Origin and History for communicate
1520s, "to impart" (information, etc.), from Latin communicatus, past participle of communicare "impart, inform" (see communication). Meaning "to share, transmit" (diseases, etc.) is from 1530s. Related: Communicated; communicating.