'Transmit' definitions:
Definition of 'transmit'
From: WordNet
verb
Transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate]
verb
Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel]
verb
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit]
verb
Send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise]
Definition of 'Transmit'
From: GCIDE
- Transmit \Trans*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transmitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Transmitting.] [L. transmittere, transmissum; trans across, over + mittere to send: cf. F. transmettre. See Missile.]
- 1. To cause to pass over or through; to communicate by sending; to send from one person or place to another; to pass on or down as by inheritance; as, to transmit a memorial; to transmit dispatches; to transmit money, or bills of exchange, from one country to another. [1913 Webster]
- The ancientest fathers must be next removed, as Clement of Alexandria, and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or conduct, electricity. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'transmit'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienate,
- add a codicil,
- address,
- air-express,
- airfreight,
- airmail,
- alien,
- alienate,
- amortize,
- assign,
- barter,
- beam,
- bequeath,
- break,
- broadcast,
- cable,
- carry,
- carry over,
- cede,
- channel,
- communicate,
- conduct,
- confer,
- consign,
- convey,
- deed,
- deed over,
- deliver,
- demise,
- deport,
- devise,
- devolve upon,
- diffuse,
- direct,
- dispatch,
- disseminate,
- drop a letter,
- embark,
- enfeoff,
- entail,
- exchange,
- execute a will,
- expedite,
- expel,
- export,
- express,
- extradite,
- fax,
- forward,
- freight,
- funnel,
- get across,
- get over,
- give,
- give title to,
- give word,
- go through,
- hand,
- hand down,
- hand forward,
- hand on,
- hand over,
- impart,
- import,
- instill,
- jam,
- leave,
- leave word,
- mail,
- make a bequest,
- make a will,
- make known,
- make over,
- metastasize,
- metathesize,
- negotiate,
- newscast,
- pass,
- pass along,
- pass on,
- pass over,
- pass the buck,
- pass through,
- perfuse,
- phone,
- pipe,
- post,
- put,
- radiate,
- radio,
- radiobroadcast,
- relay,
- remit,
- render,
- report,
- route,
- sell,
- send,
- send away,
- send forth,
- send off,
- send word,
- settle,
- settle on,
- share,
- share with,
- ship,
- shortwave,
- sign away,
- sign off,
- sign on,
- sign over,
- signal,
- siphon,
- sportscast,
- spread,
- surrender,
- switch,
- telegraph,
- telephone,
- telex,
- tell,
- trade,
- traject,
- transfer,
- transfer property,
- transfuse,
- translate,
- translocate,
- transplace,
- transplant,
- transport,
- transpose,
- turn over,
- will,
- will and bequeath,
- will to,
- wire,
- wireless