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Definition of "communicate" []
- To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office. (verb-transitive)
- To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown. (verb-transitive)
- To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit: a carrier who communicated typhus. (verb-transitive)
- To have an interchange, as of ideas. (verb-intransitive)
- To express oneself in such a way that one is readily and clearly understood: "That ability to communicate was strange in a man given to long, awkward silences” ( Anthony Lewis). (verb-intransitive)
- To impart (knowledge) or exchange (thoughts, feelings, or ideas) by speech, writing, gestures, etc (verb)
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- To allow (a feeling, emotion, etc) to be sensed (by), willingly or unwillingly; transmit (to) (verb)
- To have a sympathetic mutual understanding (verb)
- To make or have a connecting passage or route; connect (verb)
- To transmit (a disease); infect (verb)
- To receive or administer Communion (verb)
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Use "communicate" in a sentence
- "—STEVE CASE, CHAIRMAN, AMERICA ONLINE he root of the word communicate, the Latin communis, means to partake or share, the same as in words like community and communion."
- "I also compile lots of research to back or inform the ideas that I hope to communicate from a more personal perspective."
- ""I think the ability to communicate is often referred to and talked about and is vital to success, but I think that it may even be trumped by the ability to listen and hear from what your players are experiencing and make judgments on that to move forward.""
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