'Communicate' definitions:
Definition of 'communicate'
From: WordNet
verb
Transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" [syn: communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across]
verb
Transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" [syn: communicate, intercommunicate]
verb
verb
Join or connect; "The rooms communicated"
verb
Be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
verb
verb
Receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune, communicate]
Definition of 'Communicate'
From: GCIDE
- Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*k[=a]t ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Communicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Communicating.] [L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Commune, v. i.]
- 1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson [1913 Webster]
- 2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. [1913 Webster]
- Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To administer the communion to. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it. [1913 Webster]
- He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. --Clarendon.
- Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known.
- Usage: To Communicate, Impart, Reveal. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Communicate'
From: GCIDE
- Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. i.
- 1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. [1913 Webster]
- Ye did communicate with my affliction. --Philip. iv. 4. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid. [1913 Webster]
- To do good and to communicate forget not. --Heb. xiii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery. [1913 Webster]
- Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]
- The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. [1913 Webster]
- The primitive Christians communicated every day. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'communicate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abut,
- accord,
- acquaint,
- adhere,
- administer,
- administer Communion,
- advertise,
- advertise of,
- advice,
- advise,
- afford,
- allot,
- allow,
- announce,
- apprise,
- articulate,
- assign,
- associate with,
- attend Communion,
- attend Mass,
- award,
- bandy words,
- be in connection,
- be in contact,
- be in tune,
- bestow,
- bestow on,
- betray,
- border,
- break,
- breathe,
- brief,
- bring word,
- broadcast,
- butt,
- carry over,
- celebrate,
- celebrate Mass,
- chew the fat,
- chew the rag,
- chime,
- chin,
- chorus,
- clinch,
- cohere,
- colloque,
- colloquize,
- come out with,
- come together,
- commerce,
- commerce with,
- commune with,
- communicate with,
- communication,
- communion,
- confab,
- confabulate,
- confer,
- connect,
- consign,
- converge,
- conversation,
- converse,
- converse with,
- conversing,
- convey,
- correspond with,
- deal,
- deal out,
- deal with,
- deliver,
- deport,
- diffuse,
- directive,
- disclose,
- discourse with,
- discover,
- discussion,
- dish out,
- dispense,
- disseminate,
- divulge,
- dole,
- dole out,
- donate,
- embrace,
- emit,
- enlighten,
- enunciate,
- exchange,
- expel,
- export,
- express,
- extend,
- extradite,
- familiarize,
- fling off,
- fork out,
- formulate,
- get across,
- get over,
- get through to,
- gift,
- gift with,
- give,
- give expression,
- give freely,
- give notice,
- give out,
- give out with,
- give the facts,
- give tongue,
- give utterance,
- give voice,
- give word,
- grant,
- grow together,
- hand down,
- hand forward,
- hand on,
- hand out,
- hand over,
- hang together,
- have dealings with,
- have intercourse,
- have truck with,
- heap,
- help to,
- hint,
- hold communication,
- hold together,
- impart,
- imply,
- import,
- inform,
- instruct,
- intelligence,
- interchange,
- intercommunicate,
- intercommunication,
- intercourse,
- issue,
- join,
- keep,
- knit,
- lavish,
- leave word,
- let have,
- let know,
- let on,
- let out,
- line,
- lip,
- make known,
- make over,
- march,
- meet,
- mention to,
- merge,
- metastasize,
- metathesize,
- mete,
- mete out,
- news,
- notify,
- observe,
- offer,
- out with,
- pass,
- pass along,
- pass on,
- pass over,
- pass the buck,
- perfuse,
- phonate,
- phrase,
- pour,
- pour forth,
- present,
- proffer,
- promulgate,
- pronounce,
- publicize,
- put across,
- put forth,
- put in words,
- rain,
- raise,
- reach,
- receive the Sacrament,
- relate,
- relay,
- render,
- report,
- reveal,
- say,
- send,
- send word,
- serve,
- serve notice,
- set forth,
- share,
- share with,
- shell out,
- shoot the breeze,
- shower,
- signal,
- slip,
- snow,
- solemnize,
- sound,
- speak,
- speak with,
- spread,
- suggest,
- supply,
- switch,
- take counsel with,
- talk,
- talk together,
- talking,
- tell,
- tender,
- throw off,
- tidings,
- traffic with,
- transfer,
- transfer property,
- transfuse,
- translate,
- translocate,
- transmit,
- transplace,
- transplant,
- transpose,
- turn over,
- unite,
- utter,
- verbalize,
- verge,
- verse,
- visit with,
- vocalize,
- voice,
- vouchsafe,
- wavelength,
- whisper,
- word,
- yield
Words containing 'Communicate'
- Communicability,
- Communicable,
- Communicableness,
- Communicably,
- Communicant,
- Communicated,
- Communicating,
- Communication,
- Communicative,
- Communicativeness,
- Communicator,
- communicate with,
- communicational,
- communications,
- Confidential communication,
- Privileged communication,
- animal communication,
- anomalous communication,
- auditory communication,
- communicable disease,
- communicating artery,
- communication channel,
- communication equipment,
- communication system,
- communication theory,
- communication trench,
- communications intelligence,
- communications protocol,
- communications satellite,
- communications technology,
- data communication,
- digital communication,
- electronic communication,
- linguistic communication,
- oral communication,
- paralinguistic communication,
- phatic communication,
- psychic communication,
- psychical communication,
- speech communication,
- spoken communication,
- visual communication,
- voice communication,
- written communication,
- Self-communicative,
- communications security establishment,
- digital communications technology,
- federal communications commission,
- marital communications privilege,
- inter-group communication