| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | com·mu·ni·cate |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k -my  n -k t |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing, com·mu·ni·cates
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1a. To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office. b. To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown. 2. To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit: a carrier who communicated typhus. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To have an interchange, as of ideas. 2. 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). 3. Ecclesiastical To receive Communion. 4. To be connected, one with another: apartments that communicate. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin comm nicre, commnict-, from commnis, common. See mei-1 in Appendix I.
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