different between communicate vs publish

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 publicen (by analogy with banish, finish), from Old French publier, from Latin publicare (“to make public, show or tell to the people, make known, declare, also (and earlier) confiscate for public use”), from publicus (“pertaining to the people, public”); see public.

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?b'l?sh, IPA^(key): /?p?bl??/

Verb

publish (third-person singular simple present publishes, present participle publishing, simple past and past participle published)

1. (transitive) To issue (something, such as printed work) for distribution and/or sale.
2. (transitive) To announce to the public.

3. (transitive) To issue the work of (an author).

4. (Internet, transitive) To disseminate (a message) publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.
5. (intransitive) To issue a medium (e.g. publication).

6. (intransitive) To have one's work accepted for a publication.

7. (intransitive, of content) To be made available in a printed publication or other medium.

8. (Internet, intransitive) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.
9. (programming) To make (information such as an event) available to components that wish to be notified (subscribers).

Synonyms

• (to announce to the public): disclose, make known; See also Thesaurus:announce
• (to disseminate publicly via a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.): post

Derived terms

• publishable
• publisher
• unpublished

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• publish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• publish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• publish at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• bushlip