com·mu·ni·cate
(k  -my
  n
 -k  t
 )
v. com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing,
com·mu·ni·cates
v. tr.
1. To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated
his views to our office.
2. To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated
itself in her frown.
3. To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit:
a carrier who communicated typhus.
v. intr.
1. To have an interchange, as of ideas.
2. To express oneself in such a way that one is readily
and clearly understood: “That ability to communicate was
strange in a man given to long, awkward silences” (Anthony
Lewis).
Ecclesiastical. To receive Communion.
3. To be connected, one with another: apartments that
communicate. |
