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communicate
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)
- To impart
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc. [from 17th c.]
- The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
- (transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell. [from 16th c.]
- To share
- (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
- (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.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 148:
- (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.
- 1660, Jeremy Taylor, The Worthy Communicant; or a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive, obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of. [16th-19th c.]
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:communicate
Related terms
- communication
- communicator
- excommunicate
- communion
Translations
Latin
Verb
comm?nic?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of comm?nic?
communicate From the web:
- what communicates with the cerebrum
- what communicates with the pituitary
- what communicates genetic information
- what communicates attention and comprehension to a speaker
- what communicate means
- what communicates with the body to ensure homeostasis
- what communicates with the hypothalamus to induce sweating
- what communicates the precision of a measurement
repeat
English
Etymology
From Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repet?, repetere, from the prefix re- (“again”) + peto (“attack, beseech”).
Pronunciation
- (verb) IPA(key): /???pi?t/
- (noun) IPA(key): /???pi?t/, /??i?pi?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Verb
repeat (third-person singular simple present repeats, present participle repeating, simple past and past participle repeated)
- (transitive) To do or say again (and again).
- (transitive, medicine, pharmacy) To refill (a prescription).
- (intransitive) To happen again; recur.
- (transitive) To echo the words of (a person).
- (intransitive) To strike the hours, as a watch does.
- (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands
- He […] repeats the danger of the burning town.
- a. 1687, Edmund Waller, The Battel of the Summer Islands
- (law, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
- (procedure word, military) To call in a previous artillery fire mission with the same ammunition and method either on the coordinates or adjusted either because destruction of the target was insufficient or missed.
- To commit fraud in an election by voting more than once for the same candidate.
Synonyms
- (to do or say again): redo, reiterate, reprise, rework see also Thesaurus:reiterate
- (to happen again): reoccur; see also Thesaurus:repeat
Related terms
- repeatedly
- repeat on
- repeat oneself
- repetition
- repetitive
Translations
Noun
repeat (plural repeats)
- An iteration; a repetition.
- A television program shown after its initial presentation; a rerun.
- (medicine, pharmacy) A refill of a prescription.
- (genetics, biochemistry) A pattern of nucleic acids that occur in multiple copies throughout a genome (or of amino acids in a protein).
- (music) A mark in music notation directing a part to be repeated.
Synonyms
- (iteration; repetition): reiteration, reoccurrence; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence
Derived terms
- decarepeat
- homorepeat
Translations
See also
- redundant
Anagrams
- Partee, Perate, retape
repeat From the web:
- what repeating units is dna made of
- what repeats
- what repeats itself
- what repeated section often has the same music each time but different lyrics
- what repeats in a sestina
- what repeated addition
- what repeat mean
- what repeatedly happens at the children’s house
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