communicate

/kə'mju:nikeit/

Thân thiện

The student uses a drawing to communicate her idea to the class.

Definition

1. Verb (transitive):

   • To share or exchange information, ideas, or feelings: To make your thoughts, knowledge, or emotions known to another person or group.
   • To transmit or pass something from one source to another: This can include diseases, signals, or physical qualities.
   • To administer or receive Holy Communion: A specific religious rite in Christianity.

2. Verb (intransitive):

   • To be in contact or connection: To have a means of exchanging information or to be linked.
   • To have a successful mutual exchange of information: To interact and understand each other.
   • (Of rooms or spaces) to be connected: To have a direct opening or passage between them.

Examples of Usage

• Verb (transitive):

  • A good teacher knows how to communicate complex ideas clearly.
  • The diplomat will communicate the official proposal tomorrow.
  • Mosquitoes can communicate diseases like malaria.

• Verb (intransitive):

  • They haven't communicated since their argument.
  • It's important for parents and teenagers to communicate effectively.
  • The living room communicates with the dining room through a wide archway.

Advanced Usage

• "to communicate something to someone": To successfully convey a specific message or feeling to another person.

  • She struggled to communicate her vision to the design team.

• "to communicate with someone": To interact or exchange messages with a person or group.

  • We primarily communicate with our overseas colleagues via email.

Variants and Related Words

• Communication (n): The act or process of communicating; a message or piece of information communicated.

  • Clear communication is key to a successful project.

• Communicative (adj): Willing, eager, or able to talk or impart information.

  • He was in a more communicative mood after the good news.

• Communicator (n): A person who is able to convey or exchange information effectively.

  • She is an excellent communicator.

Synonyms

• Convey: To make an idea or feeling known.
• Transmit: To send or pass from one person or place to another.
• Impart: To make information known.
• Interact: To act in such a way as to have an effect on another.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Communicate in (a language): To use a specific language for interaction.
  • The conference delegates communicated in English.

Related Idioms

• Fail to communicate: To be unsuccessful in making oneself understood.

  • The instructions were confusing and the manager failed to communicate his expectations.

• Lines of communication: The routes or methods used for exchanging information.

  • We need to keep our lines of communication open during the negotiation.

Học thuật

Verb

1. receive Communion, in the Catholic church
2. administer Communion; in church
3. be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
   • He and his sons haven't communicated for years
   • Do you communicate well with your advisor?
4. join or connect
   • The rooms communicated
5. transfer to another
   • communicate a disease
6. transmit thoughts or feelings
   • He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist
7. transmit information
   • Please communicate this message to all employees
   • pass along the good news

Từ đồng nghĩa

• commune
• convey
• transmit
• intercommunicate
• pass on
• pass
• pass along
• put across