communicate
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communicate/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
▶verb
- 1 share or exchange information or ideas.
■ convey (an emotion or feeling) in a non-verbal way.
- 2 pass on (an infectious disease).
■ transmit (heat or motion).
- 3 (often as adj. communicating) (of two rooms) have a common connecting door.
- 4 receive Holy Communion.
– derivatives
communicator noun,
communicatory adjective.
communicator noun,
communicatory adjective.
– origin C16 (earlier (ME) as communication): from L. communicat-, communicare ‘share’, from communis (see common).
'communicate' also found in these Oxford entries:
chat room
- communiqué
- conference
- convey
- correspond
- correspondence course
- get
- give
- impart
- incommunicado
- interface
- interwork
- link-up
- medium
- miscommunication
- oralism
- publish
- radio
- representation
- sign
- social networking
- speak
- speaking
- talk
- telex
- tell
- transmit
- videoconference
