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
To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Again something sacred is done in all the sacraments, which belongs to the notion of "Sacrifice"; and the faithful intercommunicate through all the sacraments, which this Greek word Synaxis and the Latin Communio express.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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 Bartholdt, Richard
You may intercommunicate all that you wish at a distance of four or five thousands leagues in less than half an hour.
From Heroes of the Telegraph by Munro, John
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
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 Mundy, Talbot
The pilot-captain talks with his crew over the intercommunicating phone.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Philadelphia in 1902 he set himself up as a maker of batteries, battery testers and intercommunicating telephone systems.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out between them boiled a little torrent, and spread into a hundred intercommunicating channels amidst the great pebbles.
From The Passionate Friends by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Another adaptation of such highly sensitive transmitters is found in the special intercommunicating telephone systems for use between the various departments or desks in business offices.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony & Telegraphy Vol. 1 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Miller, Kempster
A schematic lay-out of the various parts of a Dean intercommunicating system, provided with an attendant's station and with trunks to a city office, is given in Fig.
From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by McMeen, Samuel
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