different between communicate vs communion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin comm?nic?tus, perfect passive participle of comm?nic? (“share, impart; make common”), from comm?nis (“common”). Doublet of commune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mju?n?ke?t/
• Hyphenation: com?mu?ni?cate

Verb

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

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

      It is vital that I communicate this information to you.

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

      to communicate motion by means of a crank

      • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

        Where God is worshipped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.

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

      The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.

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

      We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.

      • 1603, Ben Jonson, Sejanus His Fall

        thousands that communicate our loss

   2. (intransitive, Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion. [from 16th c.]
      • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 148:

        The ‘better sort’ might communicate on a separate day; and in some parishes even the quality of the communion wine varied with the social quality of the recipients.

   3. (transitive, Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone). [from 16th c.]
      • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper

        She [the church] […] may communicate him.

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

      Many deaf people communicate with sign language.

      I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.

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

      The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:communicate

Related terms

• communication
• communicator
• excommunicate
• communion

Translations

Latin

Verb

comm?nic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of comm?nic?

English

Etymology

From Middle English communion, from Old French comunion, from Ecclesiastical Latin comm?ni? (“communion”), from Latin comm?nis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??mju?nj?n/
• Hyphenation: com?mu?nion

Noun

communion (countable and uncountable, plural communions)

1. A joining together of minds or spirits.
2. (Christianity) Holy Communion
3. (Roman Catholicism) A form of ecclesiastical unity between the Roman Church and another, so that the latter is considered part of the former.

Synonyms

• (Holy Communion): sacrament (Mormon)

Translations

Derived terms

• communion wafer
• Holy Communion
• Spiritual Communion

Related terms

French

Etymology

From Old French comunion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin communio, communionem, from Latin communis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.my.nj??/

Noun

communion f (plural communions)

1. Communion; communion

Related terms

• commun
• communier

Further reading

• “communion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French comunion, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin communio, communionem, from Latin communis.

Noun

communion f (plural communions)

1. (Jersey) communion