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Communicating   /kəmjˈunəkˌeɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Communicate  v. t.  (past & past part. communicated; pres. part. communicating)  
1.
To share in common; to participate in. (Obs.) "To thousands that communicate our loss."
2.
To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. "Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences."
3.
To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
4.
To administer the communion to. (R.) "She (the church)... may communicate him." Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it. "He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby."
Synonyms: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known. To Communicate, Impart, Reveal. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret.


Communicate  v. i.  
1.
To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. "Ye did communicate with my affliction."
2.
To give alms, sympathy, or aid. "To do good and to communicate forget not."
3.
To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery. "Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic." "The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another."
4.
To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. "The primitive Christians communicated every day."


noun
communicating  n.  The activity of communicating.
Synonyms: communication.





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"Communicating" Quotes from Famous Books



... gone off into that vague and unknown region, the country. Liz had no notion what was their real name, nor where they would go, only that they attended races and fairs; and as soon as the actual pleasure of communicating information was over, she was seized with a panic, implored Mr. Godfrey to make no use of her information, and explained that the people of the house were quite capable of killing her, if they ...
— Nuttie's Father • Charlotte M. Yonge
... point to be noted by the beginner in conducting is that one must not direct with merely the hand and arm, but must use the entire body from head to toe in communicating to his chorus or orchestra his own emotion. Facial expression, the manner of grasping the baton, the set of the shoulders, the elevation of the chest, the position of the feet, the poise of the head—all these must he indicative of the emotional tone of the ...
— Essentials in Conducting • Karl Wilson Gehrkens
... He was not at all sorry that she had proposed this short interview, for, as his hopes of Connor's acquittal were but feeble, if, indeed, he could truly be said to entertain any, he resolved, by delicately communicating his apprehensions, to gradually prepare her mind for the ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... was Quincy's response, for his temper was rising, "and you will oblige me by communicating with Miss Dana at once, and informing her of ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... this house are very reserved. They are unwilling to give information regarding their master's habits. I could only learn that Sir Richard occupies the entresol. Communicating as it does with the garden, no doubt it is convenient to a gentleman so afflicted ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet


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