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intercommunicate

American  
[in-ter-kuh-myoo-ni-kayt] / ˌɪn tər kəˈmju nɪˌkeɪt /

verb (used without object)

intercommunicated, intercommunicating
  1. to communicate mutually, as people.

  2. to afford passage from one to another, as rooms.


verb (used with object)

intercommunicated, intercommunicating
  1. to exchange (messages or communications) with one another.

intercommunicate British  
/ ˌɪntəkəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪt /

verb

  1. to communicate mutually

  2. to interconnect, as two rooms

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of intercommunicate

First recorded in 1580–90, intercommunicate is from the Medieval Latin word intercommūnicātus (past participle). See inter-, communicate


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All four are expected to be able to intercommunicate.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2018

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

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 Saint Thomas Aquinas

To inosculate; to intercommunicate by anastomosis, as the arteries and veins.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The cells intercommunicate, and the mechanical mixture of the gases arising from the furnace grates of the various cells is sought by the introduction of a special design of reverberatory arch overlying the grates.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" 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 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

This is an intercommunicating telephone arrangement of the detectaphone.

From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

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

Other physiologists attribute the result to the close attachment and freely intercommunicating blood-vessels between the modified embryo and mother.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

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