COMMUNICATE

communicate, intercommunicate

(verb) transmit thoughts or feelings; “He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist”

communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across

(verb) transmit information; “Please communicate this message to all employees”; “pass along the good news”

commune, communicate

(verb) receive Communion, in the Catholic church

communicate

(verb) administer Communion; in church

communicate

(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?”

communicate

(verb) join or connect; “The rooms communicated”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

communicate (third-person singular simple present communicates, present participle communicating, simple past and past participle communicated)

To impart

(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. [from 16th c.]

(transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of. [from 16th c.]

(transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc. [from 17th c.]

To share

(transitive, obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of. [16th-19th c.]

(intransitive, Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion. [from 16th c.]

(transitive, Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone). [from 16th c.]

(intransitive) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information. [from 16th c.]

(intransitive) To be connected with (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel. [from 16th c.]

Hyponyms

• See also communicate

Source: Wiktionary

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Com*mu"ni*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Communicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Communicating.] Etym: [L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Commune, v. i.]

1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.] To thousands that communicate our loss. B. Jonson

2. To impart; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. Jer. Taylor.

3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

4. To administer the communion to. [R.] She [the church] . . . may communicate him. Jer. Taylor.

Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it. He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. Clarendon.

Syn.

– To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known.

– 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.

Com*mu"ni*cate, v. i.

1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. Ye did communicate with my affliction. Philip. iv. 4.

2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid. To do good and to communicate forget not. Heb. xiii. 16.

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. Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. Hakluyt. The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. Arbutnot.

4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. The primitive Christians communicated every day. Jer. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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