transmit
/tɹænsˈmɪt/ verb B2- To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.
- To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).
- To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.
- To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).
- To convey or conduct (energy or force) through a mechanism or medium.
- To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive). · A Mayday call was transmitted by the stricken vessel.
- To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or communicated. · The Mayday call transmitted successfully.
He/she/it transmits · Past transmitted · Past participle transmitted · -ing form transmitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- transmit
- He/she/it
- transmits
- Past
- transmitted
- Past participle
- transmitted
- -ing form
- transmitting
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
From the library
“Which is undergoing great fatigue and anxiety, my dear duke, when we have a telegraph which transmits messages in three or four hours, and that without getting in the least out of breath.”
Montalivet, transmitted to the prefect of Bayonne, mystified by two Greek words, têle, graphein.
As to the left-hand one, he conscientiously repeated the same signals, which were finally transmitted to the Minister of the Interior.
“My opinion is, that all these old podestàs, these ancient condottieri,—for the Cavalcanti have commanded armies and governed provinces,—my opinion, I say, is, that they have buried their millions in corners, the secret of which they have transmitted only to their eldest sons, who have done the same from generation to generation; and the proof of this is seen in their yellow and dry appearance, like the florins of the republic, which, from being constantly gazed upon, have become reflected in them.”
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