communicate
/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/ verb A2- To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. · It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
- To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of. · to communicate motion by means of a crank
- To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc. · The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
- To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
- To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
- To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information. · Many deaf people communicate with sign language.· I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
- To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’]. · The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
Plural communicate · He/she/it communicates · Past communicated · Past participle communicated · -ing form communicating
Verb forms
- Base form
- communicate
- He/she/it
- communicates
- Past
- communicated
- Past participle
- communicated
- -ing form
- communicating
From the library
It would require years to do again what I have done here, and the results would be instantly destroyed if our jailers knew we had communicated with each other.
I shall have something of the greatest importance to communicate to you.”
Now, when young ladies wander about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is something very pressing which they have to communicate.
“Where does that bell communicate with?” he asked at last pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the tassel actually lying upon the pillow.
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