different between missive vs transmit

English

Etymology

15th Century; from Medieval Latin missivus, from mittere (“to send”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?m?s?v/

Noun

missive (plural missives)

1. (formal) A written message; a letter, note or memo.
   • 2008, Claire Armistead, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2008:

     The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter 71:

     "Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.

2. (in the plural, Scotland, law) Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
3. (obsolete) One who is sent; a messenger.
   • c. 1606: Macbeth by Shakespeare

     Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’

Translations

Adjective

missive (not comparable)

1. Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.

   a letter missive

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2. (obsolete) Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
   • 1700, John Dryden, Cymon And Iphigenia

     The missive weapons fly.

Related terms

• See mission for terms etymologically related to send

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “missive”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

French

Pronunciation

Noun

missive f (plural missives)

1. missive

Italian

Noun

missive f

1. plural of missiva

English

Etymology

From Middle English transmitten, borrowed from Latin tr?nsmitt? (“transmit”, verb, literally “over-send”). See also oversend.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?nsm?t', tr?nzm?t' IPA^(key): /t?æns?m?t/, /t?ænz?m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: trans?mit

Verb

transmit (third-person singular simple present transmits, present participle transmitting, simple past and past participle transmitted)

1. (transitive) To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
2. (transitive) To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
3. (transitive) To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
4. (transitive) To communicate news or information.
5. (transitive) To convey energy or force through a mechanism or medium.
6. (intransitive) To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).

Synonyms

• oversend

Derived terms

• TX (abbreviation)

Related terms

• transmission
• transmittable
• transmittal
• transmittance
• transmittant
• transmitter
• mission

Translations

Anagrams

• tantrism

French

Verb

transmit

1. third-person singular past historic of transmettre

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tran?smit]

Verb

transmit

1. first-person singular present indicative of transmite
2. third-person plural present indicative of transmite
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of transmite