different between communicate vs incommunicado

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 Spanish incomunicado, with spelling influenced by such English words as communicate.

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): [?nk?mjun??k??do?]

Adjective

incommunicado (not comparable)

1. In a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate.
   • 2007, "Dreadful news awaits housemate", Times Online, London, 25 May (retrieved 29 June 2007),

     The father of a woman living in the incommunicado world of the Big Brother house in Australia has died but his daughter has not been told.

   • 2017, "Hurricane Maria Does ‘Mind-Boggling’ Damage to Dominica, Leader Says", The New York Times, Mexico City, 19 August (retrieved 21 August 2017),

     As the storm, described by the National Hurricane Center as “potentially catastrophic,” moved toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday, little could be learned about the conditions on Dominica. By early Tuesday morning, phone and internet signals on Dominica appeared to be down, leaving the island virtually incommunicado.

Hyponyms

• off the grid

Adverb

incommunicado (not comparable)

1. In a manner in which communication with outsiders is not possible, for either voluntary or involuntary reasons, especially due to confinement or reclusiveness.
   • 2004, Ben Westhoff, "Making Traks," Riverfront Times, St. Louis MO, 7 Apr,

     The Starz seem most comfortable when they're in the studio, where they can work incommunicado.

References

• incommunicado at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English incommunicado.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /in.k?.my.ni.ka.do/

Adverb

incommunicado

1. incommunicado