communicationn.
/kəˌmjuːnᵻˈkeɪʃn/, U.S. /kəˌmjunəˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ I. Senses relating to affinity or association.† 1. The fact of having something in common with another person or thing; affinity; congruity. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > common character or quality in common
communicationa1382
commonness1530
community1560
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xiii. 22 What comunycacioun to an hoeli man at a dogge [a1425 L.V. What comininge is of an hooli man to a dogge, L. communicatio]? or what good parti to a riche man at a pore?
?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 131 What felaschip is of liȝt to dercknesse? What comunicacioun of Crist to Belial?
1654 E. Wolley tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Curia Politiæ 186 The coldness of the Climate hath some communication with their Nature.
2.
a. Interpersonal contact, social interaction, association, intercourse.Often hard to distinguish from sense 5b.
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1422 in A. T. Bannister Reg. Thome Spofford (1919) 82 (MED) And at noon sustre hafe famylyar communicacion synguler by hyrselfe with ony such person with outen presence of on othir honest sustre.
c1451 J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert (1910) 134 Þe nunnes of þat hous fled þe comunicacion of þis same woman, so wer þei aferd for to be infect.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 574 Intercourse of marchandise..communication for bying and selling.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 28 The meeting of us, twoe old acquainted friends, and interlacing of talke and communication.
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xli. 97 In this iland of Mocha we had communication and contratation with the inhabitants.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 429 Thou..Best with thy self accompanied, seek'st not Social communication . View more context for this quotation
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 167 They had little Knowledge or Communication one with another.
1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 2 Without any direct privity or communication with each other.
1852 tr. Cicero Somnum Scipionis in Southern Lit. Messenger 18 351/1 The inhabitants, thus insulated, can have no communication with one another.
1874 J. Ware Mem. Life of Henry Ware (New ed.) I. xiii. 258 He perhaps, indirectly, rather avoided the ordinary social communication of this kind, especially while a parish minister.
1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 959/2 Cook..landed several times; but by no endeavour could he induce the natives to hold any friendly communication with him.
1929 J. H. Dunham Princ. Ethics iii. vi. 384 There is..the desire for companionship, the revolt against the loneliness of the apartment or the club, the opportunity for communication with one who commands a momentary fascination for the mind.
1993 Folklore 104 93 One recorded incident..indicates a marked resistance to French and Norman ways, rather than a close and friendly communication.
b. Sexual intercourse. Chiefly (in later use only) with preceding specifying adjective, as carnal communication, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
c1450 J. Capgrave Solace of Pilgrims (Bodl. 423) 99 Sche, þus weddid..to a hethen man, wold not comoun with him in fleschly comunicacioun.
1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie ii. 99 I wil maintayne..that they maye haue carnall communication.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 31 I have had communication with her three times.
1792 E. Burke On Negro Code in Wks. IX. 300 Any European Officer..having unlawful communication with any woman Slave.
1842 Freemasons' Monthly Mag. 1 Nov. 30 He has had illicit communication with a married woman of this city.
1871 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 4) 367 The queen bee, when deprived of her wings before any communication with the male has taken place, will nevertheless lay fruitful eggs.
1885 in V. A. Shepherd Maharani's Misery (2002) 130 I have never had sexual communication with any of the female Immigrants on board.
1951 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Sunday Post 4 Mar. 6/2 This spiritual communication may not have the romantic satisfaction in it that carnal communication has, but its returns are eternal.
1999 Cosmopolitan (Nexis) 1 Oct. 326 The shy stud mellifluous Mercury sends your way on the 16th is adept at carnal communication.
3. † b. gen. The action of sharing in something; mutual participation or ownership. Obsolete.
a. Christian Church. Participation in the Eucharist; the action of taking communion. Now rare.In early use also: the giving by Jesus Christ of his body or blood to be shared through the sacrament of the Eucharist (in which sense the use more nearly approaches sense 5a).
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society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun]
massOE
servicelOE
sacrament?c1225
table1340
commoningc1384
the Lord's Supperc1384
Eucharista1400
oblation?a1425
communion1440
sacrifice?1504
Lord's Table1533
Maundy1533
the Supper?1548
unbloody sacrifice1548
mystery1549
communication1550
banquet1563
liturgy1564
table service1593
synaxis1625
mysteriousness1650
second service1655
nagmaal1833
ordinance1854
table prayer1858
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] > attendance or partaking of
commoningc1384
communingc1425
communion1440
perceptionc1450
sumptionc1450
sustentationc1450
manducationa1513
receipt?a1513
communicating1550
communication1550
mastication1601
theanthropophagy1654
theophagy1875
1550 T. Cranmer Def. Sacrament f. 80 Thynketh this hereticke that we knowe not the strength and vertue of the mistical benediction? whiche when it is made in vs, doth it not make Christ by communication of his fleshe to dwell corporally in vs?
1551 S. Gardiner Explic. Catholique Fayth f. 4 When he [sc. St Paul] sayd: The bread whiche wee breake, is it not the communicacion of Christes bodie.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 146 As it is manifest that they do liue, which touch or come neare, vnto his [sc. Christ's] body, and by the right of communication receiue the sacrament of thankesgiuing.
c1610–15 tr. St. Augustine Life St. Monica in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 131 If the communication of our Lords bodie was there celebrated.
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. v. 376 We admit them in the Church to a right of Communication to drink of the Cup of the Bloud of Christ.
1720 ‘T. M.’ tr. J. M. Horstius Paradise of Soul v. ii. 312 All holy Disciples of our Lord; who were persevering with the Primitive Faithful daily, in the Communication of Breaking Bread.
1846 R. Ford Gatherings from Spain 245 To die without confession and communication is..the most poignant of calamities.
1888 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 153 The Confession does teach a sacramental communication of the body and blood of Christ.
2007 T. Rosendale Liturgy & Lit. Making of Protestant Eng. ii. 102 The Order [sc. the Order of the Communion of 1548] provided for universal communication in both kinds, while maintaining the traditional doctrines.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [noun] > participation in common interest
fellowshipa1250
communiona1382
participation?a1475
society1534
intercommoning1573
communication1574
concernment1676
participancy1856
participance1869
opting-in1969
1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. sig. Lll If any man hath so offended that hee is banished from the communication of prayer, of companie, and of all holie affaires.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 929 Authors describe it [sc. the hornet] to be in colour like a Wasp..and in communication of labour like all other social winged Insects.
1708 (title) Communication of property. Or, a voluntary contribution for publick and charitable uses to be distributed by lot.
1771 O. Goldsmith Hist. Eng. IV. 128 That all the subjects of Great Britain should enjoy a communication of privileges and advantages.
1776 T. Jefferson Draft Declar. Independence in S. K. Padover Jefferson (1942) iv. 59 We might have been a free and a great people together; but a communication of grandeur and of freedom, it seems, is below their dignity.
1853 Bible Christian Mag. Jan. 31/2 This internal union [among the early Christians] was outwardly manifested by a frank communication of their temporal goods; none of them said that aught of the things he had was his own.
4. Freemasonry. A scheduled regular meeting of a Masonic lodge.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [noun] > the Freemasons > meetings
communication1723
encampment1787
1723 J. Anderson Constit. Free-masons 47 This fair Metropolis flourisheth..with several worthy particular Lodges, that have a quarterly Communication, and an annual grand Assembly.
1777 R. Trewman Princ. Free-masonry Delineated 136 (heading) A Charge, Delivered at a Quarterly Communication for the County of Devon.
1869 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Daily Gaz. 12 June (advt.) Sol. D. Bayless Lodge..meets at Masonic Hall, every Monday Evening. Regular Communication, Second Monday of each month.
1948 PMLA 63 916 The Quarterly Communication held at the Devil Tavern, Temple Bar, in 1733, when Mansel was present as a provincial officer.
2007 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 13 June 1 b The Grand Master's Banquet will be held Friday night. On Saturday, the Annual Communication and election of officers will be presided over by Jensen.
II. Senses relating to the imparting or transmission of something.† 6. Interchange of speech, conferring, discussion, debate; an instance of this, a conversation, a conference. Obsolete.† 8. Rhetoric. The device of appearing to consult one's audience or opponent, as by introducing questions into a speech; = anacoenosis n. Also: (rare) the use of we in order to include the hearer or reader in the speaker or writer's sentiments. Obsolete.
5.
a. The action of communicating something (as heat, feeling, motion, etc.), or of giving something to be shared; an instance of this. Cf. communicate v. 1.Now rare with reference to material objects, except as the vehicles of information (letters, papers to learned societies, magazine articles, etc.).
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > transmission or passing on
communicationc1384
delation1578
transfusion1578
transmission1611
conveyance1646
transmitting1671
transmit1672
transmittal1735
transmittance1855
passage1860
transjection?1867
the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > imparting
communicationc1384
impartment1604
imparture1610
imparting1611
conveyance1662
impartance1811
impartation1828
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. ix. 13 Glorifiynge God..in symplenesse of comynycacioun [L. communicationis] into hem and into alle.
1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. xiv. f. lxxxivv The lewd communycacyon of heresyes.
1592 A. Willet Synopsis Papismi iii. 211 By this meanes they make no difference betweene the fulnes of power in our Sauiour Christ, and the communication of that power to other Ministers.
1623 J. Bingham tr. Xenophon Hist. 69 So was there amongst them a mutuall communication of their commodities.
1663 J. Beale Let. 15 Jan. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1965) II. 7 For ye communication of practicall advertisements, they may prove dangerous in altering Mercats, subducting burses too hastily.
1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts (ed. 2) i. xix. 205 This Communication of the Holy Ghost to the Apostles.
1776 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 66 6 He thinks that there is a communication of juices from the polypiferous pores on the cortical part to the inside or horny part.
1788 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1987) 1457 I was..Penman first of the Request to have a Communication of the Instructions, and then of the Remarks upon them.
1806 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 15 235 An apparent but not real communication of the disease.
1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 102 The mercantile [power], presiding over circulation and communication of things.
1914 Eng. Hist. Rev. 29 73 A meeting..was held on 6 February 1743 to endorse the communication of a letter dealing with questions between ourselves and Prussia.
1923 E. W. Hobson Domain Nat. Sci. viii. 183 Themistius..compared the impulse received by the body to the communication of heat to a body.
1960 Jrnl. Hygiene 58 1 More than one strain of staphylococcus was at work and communication of infection from one member of the family to another could not be shown.
1999 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 4143/2 Communication of this paper was initiated by Viktor Mutt and..completed by Solomon H. Snyder.
b. spec. The transmission or exchange of information, knowledge, or ideas, by means of speech, writing, mechanical or electronic media, etc.; (occasionally) an instance of this.data, mass, radio, satellite communication, etc.: see first element.
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society > communication > [noun]
communication?1532
intercommunication1586
correspondence1605
correspondency1613
conveyance1662
society > communication > [noun] > by means of electrical or mechanical techniques
communication1932
society > communication > telecommunication > [noun]
telecommunication1904
communication1932
telecom1953
?1532 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus De Contemptu Mundi viii. sig. Giv The greatnes therof requireth moche more than hath ben spoken (for in maner no wordes or tyme of communication to discusse it, coude suffise).
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie v. 240/1 We must resort to a higher grounde: which is, to consider for what purpose God hath made our tongues, and to what ende hee hath giuen vs speech: namely to the intent wee might impart our mindes one to another by communication.
1669 W. Holder Elem. Speech 5 The variety of instructive Expressions by speech, wherewith Man..is endowed..for the communication of his thoughts.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. ix. 232 To make Words serviceable to the end of Communication.
1742 J. Hildrop Free Thoughts upon Brute-creation i. 39 Without some kind of Language, some Method of Communication, those Wants could never be known.
1796 M. Hays Mem. Emma Courtney I. xv. 85 I took up my pen to calm my spirits, and addressed myself to the man who had been, unconsciously, the occasion of these vexations.—My swelling heart needed the relief of communication.
1806–31 A. Knox Remains (1844) I. 68 Times of severe trial have been chosen for Divine communications.
1872 J. Ruskin Eagle's Nest §33 The reward which rapidity of communication now ensures to discoveries that are profitable.
1907 F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 916/1 A corrupted Choctaw jargon used for the purposes of inter-tribal communication among all the tribes from Florida to Louisiana.
1932 Admiralty Handbk. Wireless Telegr. 1931 p. ii The range of frequencies of the æther waves used in wireless communication is now subdivided as follows.
1961 Listener 16 Nov. 809/1 The lack of communication between scientists and non-scientists, which has been so much discussed recently in terms of ‘the two cultures’.
1979 H. Kissinger White House Years xxxii. 1387 We had no means of communication with Washington. The secure phone did not work; the open phone was not secure.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Feb. e2/2 Every day they interact with friends through multiple channels of communication—including cellphones, text messages, instant messages, e-mail and face-to-face conversations.
c. plural. The science, practice, or system of transmitting or imparting information, esp. of doing so over a distance by electronic or digital media.See also telecommunication n.
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1907 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 1 219 To rearrange the system of communications,..transferring the post, telegraph and telephone services of Corea to the control of the Japanese Government.
1929 Ann. Amer. Acad. Polit. & Social Sci. 142 95 With the advent of radio..the center of influence in world communications has gradually shifted from the Old World to the New.
1944 Fortune Mar. 201/1 In communications, the good electrical characteristics of magnesium make it a logical weight-saving metal for coaxial cables, telephone lines, telephone equipment.
1959 Listener 21 May 885/1 The background and history of the ideas now current in communications.
1970 Times 3 Apr. (Arab League Suppl.) p. x/5 The Government has already spent more than 4,000m. rials in five years developing communications.
1980 Sci. Amer. Feb. 12/1 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he majored in communications and operations research and minored in computer science.
1994 E. Ehm She should Talk 15 I gave her a quick rundown of all the different jobs I had taken since I was 17, all the way from my days as a volunteer music librarian at the radio station, working at record stores, DJing at clubs, to getting my university degree in communications.
2002 P. Augar & J. Palmer Rise Player Manager iii. 35 In an environment where..communications were so fast that first mover advantage did not last for very long.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun]
speechc900
talec1000
speaka1300
reasonc1300
speakinga1325
counsela1350
intercommuningc1374
dalliancec1400
communication1419
communancec1449
collocutiona1464
parlour?c1475
sermocination1514
commona1529
dialogue?1533
interlocutiona1534
discourse1545
discoursing1550
conference1565
purposea1572
talk1572
interspeech1579
conversationa1586
devising1586
intercourse1596
intercommunication1603
eclogue1604
commercing1610
communion1614
negocea1617
alloquy1623
confariation1652
gob1681
gab1761
commune1814
colloquy1817
conversing1884
cross-talk1887
bull session1920
rap1957
1419 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1834) II. 260 (MED) The ambassatours..be whos writyng and desire this comunicacion of traiete is now had atte this ciete of London.
1426–7 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 10 [The arbitrators] hadden a commvnicacion þer-of wyth þe seyd Thomas Erpyngham.
1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 6 The king..hath had..many assembles and commynycacions with the King of Scottes for amyte, trewes and peas to be had.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. i. iii. f. vii She..had communycacion with the serpent.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 230 In communication when mention hapned to be made of a certaine Bishoppe.
a1643 J. Shute Sarah & Hagar (1649) 76 A rude..familiarity..with the name of God (foisting it up and down in common communication and oathes).
1730 H. Fielding Rape upon Rape v. 77 I long to have some Communication with you about the Affairs of the Indies and the Posture of our Trade there.
1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. xii. 260 After some communication with his companions, he told me that he and his comrades thought they might [etc.].
1846 Times 19 Sept. 3/3 After some communication with Mr. Coulthurst, witness again asked the prisoner..whether his signature was in his own handwriting.
7.
a. Something that is communicated, or in which facts are communicated; a piece of information; a document containing information; esp. a letter.
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society > communication > [noun] > that which is communicated
communication1481
society > communication > information > [noun] > piece of
somewhatc1175
communication1481
informationa1527
intelligence1570
adviso1591
intelligencies1623
data1645
footnote1711
steer1899
mail1975
1481 R. Cely Let. 4 June in Lett. (1975) 107 I haue towllyd hour father of Schestyrs dowter, how that I whowlde fayne be ther, and howur Father whos ryught glad of thys comenycacyon.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos Prol. 3 Euery man..wyll vtter his commynycacyon and maters in suche..termes that fewe men shall vnderstonde theym.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Eph. iv. 29 Let no filthy communicacion procede out of youre mouthes.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Gg.iv This communication nowe is out of the pourpose that I went about.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings ix. 11 Yee know the man, and his communication . View more context for this quotation
1670 H. Oldenburg Let. 17 May in Corr. (1970) VII. 18 I added Dr Tongs communication of ye combat of spider and Toad, and of ye seedling beeches etc.
1778 F. Burney Evelina III. xii. 127 Your last communication, my dearest child, is indeed astonishing.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson I. Advt. p. x Those who have been pleased to favour me with communications.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 172 Mingled with his communications on such subjects are other communications of a very different..kind.
1851 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 12 Sept. (1992) IV. 76 I instantly sat down on a stone at the foot of the telegraph pole—& attended to the communication.
1928 Times 14 Sept. 8/5 I usually send in my form for reclaim of income-tax and soon receive a card stating that my communication shall receive ‘early attention’.
1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. i. 11 Of all the communications that Bernard Sands received on the day of his triumph the one which gave him the greatest satisfaction was the Treasury's final confirmation of official financial backing.
1989 P. O'Brian Thirteen-gun Salute ii. 39 The bank regretted that it appeared to have no trace of the vouchers mentioned in his esteemed communication of the seventh ultimo.
2006 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 20 Dec. (State ed.) 38 His most recent communication..reported ‘another lengthy meeting’ with representatives of the environmental and contracting engineers.
b. spec. A paper containing an account of observations, the results of research or intellectual speculation, or the like, as presented to a learned society, submitted for publication in an academic journal, etc.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > essay > [noun] > other types of essay
paper1652
by-paper1659
communication1668
programme1671
memoira1680
photo-essay1948
1668 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 3 629 In my first Number..I render'd the reasons and purposes of these Philosophical Communications.
1684 (title of journal) Medicina Curiosa: or, A variety of new communications in physick, chirurgery, and anatomy.
1785 Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 Pref. p. vii Not many months after this act of incorporation was passed, the statutes were formed..and communications were received. From the communications till the end of the year 1783, the following volume is now offered to the public.
1793 J. Priestley Exper. Generation Air from Water Pref. p. viii To the article that is now for the first time laid before the public, I prefix my last communication to the Royal Society.
1813 (title) The Jewish repository, or monthly communications respecting the Jews and the proceedings of the London Society.
1869 Appleton's Jrnl. Apr. 124/1 What else was contained in the communication [sc. a letter to the French Academy], M. Dumas was unable [to] say, as he could not make out Professor Frankland's handwriting.
1907 Times 27 July 4/5 Among the more important other communications will be papers by Professor Bower on Pteridophytic Embryos..and Miss Fraser..on Recent work on the Cytology of Fungi.
1977 J. March Adv. Org. Chem. (ed. 2) 1144 Some journals now publish summaries along with their communications.
2007 Life Sci. Weekly (Nexis) 13 Mar. 2089 Garcia and DeMaria published their communication in Obesity Surgery.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > appeal to hearers for opinions
communication1550
anacoenosis1589
impartener1589
1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes Diiij Communication is, when we leave sumwhat to ye iudges to be estemed.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 99 b Communicacion is then used when we debate with other, and aske questions as though we loked for an answer.
a1622 N. Byfield Comm. First Epist. St. Peter (1637) 136 Before I break open these particulars, two things may be noted: 1. The coherence with the former reason: 2. The Apostles insinuation, or communication, as they call it in Rhetoricke.
1712 J. Brightland Gram. Eng. Tongue (ed. 2) 188 Communication is when we desire the Judgment of our Hearers; as, What would you, Gentlemen, do in the Case? Would you take other Measures than, &c.
1785 J. Walker Rhetorical Gram. lx. 177 Anacoenosis, or Communication, is a figure by which the speaker applies to his hearers or opponents for their opinion upon the point in debate.
1793 J. Beattie Elem. Moral Sci. II. iv. i. 465 Communication..takes place when a speaker or writer assumes his hearer or reader as a partner in his sentiments and discourse, saying we, instead of I or ye.
1860 J. R. Boyd Elem. Eng. Composition 270 Communication (Anacœnosis), or Expostulation, is a figure by which a speaker argues a case with his hearer or with his opponent; or by which an injured person, in order to convince the offender of his injustice or ingratitude, pleads with him from all the topics of reason and propriety, that he may make him ashamed.
III. Senses relating to access.
9.
a. Access or means of access between two or more persons or places; the fact of being connected by a physical link, or by a practicable route; connection, passage (between two places, vessels, spaces, etc.); †an instance of this (obsolete).In quot. ?a1425 apparently: the fact of having influence by means of such connection.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > uninterrupted connection of parts > intercommunication > means of
communication?a1425
intercourse1660
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 18 (MED) By þe neruez which..descenden fro þe brayn to þe testiclez, þe brayn haþ comunicacion [L. communicacionem] of þis &, bi consequens i. sewing, al þe body.
1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale Miiir And ofte times death [is caused] by reason of the communication and consent that they [sc. the nerves] haue with the Brain and other noble partes.
1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. sig. B.iv v All manner of sores that doe not cicatrize perfectly and haue communication with the inward parts, are called Fistoloes.
1633 E. Grimeston tr. Polybius Hist. xvi. 454 That [Gulf] of Abydos is more commodious then that of the Pillars of Hercules. For the first is inhabited on either side, and in manner of a Port, for the mutuall communication of Traffique.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 115 That famous and strange Whirl-pool.., commonly call'd, The Maelstrom; which this Author fancies to have a Communication, by a Subterraneous Channel, with another such Whirl-pool.
1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus vi. 151 The Turks had there a Considerable Garrison, which might Incommode the Communication between his Troops, and the Imperialists.
1772 W. Robertson View State of Europe (new ed.) i, in Hist. Charles V (ed. 2) I. 92 Even between distant parts of the same kingdom, the communication [1769 intercourse] was rare and difficult.
1789 A. Mackenzie Jrnl. 26 July (1970) 212 He knows of no Communication by Water to the above River.
1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 65 The branches [of a vein of ore] have a general communication by means of fine slender threads.
1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxiv. 197 They had admirable means of communication by land and sea.
1913 J. W. Jenkinson Vertebr. Embryol. ix. 215 Though the apposition of foetal to maternal blood-channels is very close; there is yet never any communication between the two.
1977 E. Heath Travels vi. 136 In the second half of the sixties General Franco cut off all communication by land with Gibraltar and the ferry ceased to run.
1997 Hesperia 66 351 Communication between the two rooms was by means of an off-center doorway.
b. of communication: (as a postmodifier) affording access or connection.Earliest in line of communication (see line n.2 26a); in later use esp. with reference to access between parts of a building, as door of communication, etc.
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1637 H. Hexham True & Briefe Relation Famous Seige of Breda 15 This night also the line of Communication, was begun betweene the French and the English.
1676 W. Carr Partic. Acct. Siege Mastricht 10 He went round the whole Bastion, but could not find any door of Communication from the Town.
1699 M. Lister Journey to Paris (ed. 3) 62 The Canal of Communication, which goes between the Pulmonick Artery and the lower or descending Branch of the Aorta.
1770–4 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. (1803) I. 294 The pipe of communication between the seminal and coronal roots.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1047 Traverse, a gallery or loft of communication in a church or other large building.
1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights I. viii. 157 I..walked off to the kitchen..leaving the door of communication open.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) 145 The muscular fibres are so disposed as to form a sort of sphincter around the aperture of communication.
1902 Times 30 Aug. 2/6 In the house previously occupied by me there had been a door of communication into the third house occupied by the other tenant.
1964 T. J. Parker & W. A. Haswell Text-bk. Zool. (ed. 7) II. 280 There is thus formed a temporary passage of communication between the medullary canal and the archenteron.
2004 H. Evans tr. J. Cepl Hans Kollhoff 342/3 The glazed corridor of communication faces onto this hortus conclusus on one side.
c. A connecting channel, line, passage, or opening; a route, channel, etc., by means of which transportation or travel (originally of troops and supplies between a base and an area of operations) may be effected. In later use usually in plural.
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society > travel > means of travel > [noun]
communication1715
link1869
1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 118 There must be a communication with the passage..whence the External Air comes immediately in.
1727 Hist. Reg. No. 46. 126 The Communications and the Batteries were repaired, and the great Battery was finish'd.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 166 This lake is the communication between the Lakes Winnepeek and Bourbon, and Lake Superior.
1800 tr. Hist. Campaign 1799 in Italy 49 The communications and provisionary supplies of the French suffered.
1840 Mechanics' Mag. 1 Aug. 162/1 The only necessary condition is, that a communication must be formed between two distant places by metallic wires.
1864 Spectator 31 Dec. 1478 Lee's communications through South-Western Virginia..have been cut by General Stoneman.
1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. i. 5 To protect our communications with India and Australia.
1901 Science 11 Oct. 555/1 Reef fishes were excluded from the Pacific shores when the communications were destroyed by the upheaval of the land.
1967 Times Rev. Industry Apr. 50/2 Essential features are good car parking space..and good communications. Orbital roads, motorways and similar positions are popular.
2007 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 9 Aug. Several places were inaccessible as road and rail communications had been snapped.
Phrases
Proverb. evil communications corrupt good manners and variants: immoral or malicious words (or, in later use, instances of bad behaviour; cf. sense 2a) have a deleterious influence upon a person's conduct. [This proverb appears in 1 Corinthians 15.33 (see quot. 1582; compare post-classical Latin corrumpunt bonos mores colloquia prava (Vulgate)); an earlier (Greek) version is found in Menander ( Monostichoi 738): ϕθείρουσιν ἤθη χρήσθ᾽ ὁμιλίαι κακαί.]
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1533 T. More Answere Poysened Bk. Pref. sig. Aa.iii For as thapostle also reherseth, euyll communicacyon marreth and corrupteth good maners.
1539 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes sig. D.iiijv Naughtye communications spyl good maners.
?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) iii. sig. Eiijv Euil communication confoundeth good vertues.
1582 Bible (Rheims) 1 Cor. xv. 33 Euil communications [c1384 Wycliffite, E.V. yuele spechis, 1611 euill communications; Gk. ὁμιλίαι κακαί, L. colloquia prava] corrupt good maners.
1622 W. Gouge Of Domesticall Duties vii. 631 Thus is that prouerbe verified, euill communications corrupt good manners.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. iii. 211 There is nothing but Cursing and Swearing among them. I wish your Honour would..not think of going among them.—Evil Communication corrupts good Manners.
1817 W. Hazlitt Round Table I. xvii. 147 On the principle that evil communication corrupts good manners, they retain a virgin purity of understanding, and laudable ignorance of all liberal arts and sciences.
1874 A. Trollope Phineas Redux I. xvi. 134 No doubt he would have taken the fence readily enough had his rider followed immediately after Lord Chiltern; but Dandolo had baulked at the fence nearly a dozen times, and evil communications will corrupt good manners.
1939 W. S. Maugham Christmas Holiday ii. 28 A disposition of such sweetness that no evil communication could corrupt his good manners.
1995 Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) (Nexis) 27 Mar. 9b Hollywood might be held to blame [for the rudeness of drivers]—‘evil communications corrupt good manners,’ St. Paul said.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
(a) With first element in singular form.Some of the more established compounds of this type are entered separately at Compounds 1a(b).
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1810 Duke of Wellington Let. 26 Mar. in Dispatches (1836) V. 576 I should prefer horses to mules for the communication service.
1890 Protocols Proc. Internat. Marine Conf. II. 899 Communication signals are practically to be made when vessels are in sight of one another.
1936 R. S. Glasgow Princ. Radio Engin. iv. 79 For the lower range of communication frequencies the two coils are wound on a magnetic core to insure a high degree of coupling between them.
1958 A. A. Hill Introd. Ling. Struct. xxi. 408 A part of communication activity which is outside the area of microlinguistics..is what can be called paralinguistics.
1970 Single Sideband for Radio Amateur (Amer. Radio Relay League) (ed. 5) 3 ‘Sideband’..has remarkably improved the communication capacity of our phone bands.
1993 A. Toffler & H. Toffler War & Anti-war iv. xvi. 148 In the afterglow of the military victory in the Gulf, American attention focused on the ways in which U.S. forces were able to ‘blind’ Saddam Hussein by knocking out his information and communication assets.
2005 1to1 Mag. Oct. 16/1 Integrate the Web, the call center, and other communication methods to serve customers' needs with varying levels of self-service.
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communication centre n.
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1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 846 One would hardly call the bunch of telegraph wires on the housetop a ‘communication centre’; the loci of communication are still at the telegraph office.
1974 E. Ambler Dr. Frigo ii. 133 My tennis partner at the army communication centre must have been busy.
1994 Sunday Times (Singapore) 2 Oct. 23/1 These men will be trained to protect vital buildings such as power stations and communication centres.
communication device n.
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1898 E. J. Houston Dict. Electr. Words (ed. 4) 647/2 In any system of electric communication devices..in which each particular bell is only operated by its own call to the exclusion of other calls.
1917 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 20 Aug. 9/3 The telephone companies have been working with the army and navy officials on new and improved communication devices.
2001 enRoute July 13 You can register to receive departure/arrival flight status updates to your text-enabled phone, communication device, pager or computer.
communication link n.
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1908 B. L. Putnam Weale Coming Struggle in E. Asia i. xi. 305 The railway had been ripped up by the Russians;..the communication link was thus severed.
1927 Times 3 Mar. 7/6 The series of beam stations which will form wireless communication links between Great Britain and various parts of the Empire.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. (Business Suppl.) 8/3 One such system even hacked into US Drug Enforcement Administration lines in order to establish a secure communication link.
communication medium n.
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1896 A. Tompkins Literary Interpr. i. 42 The language must be interpreted to get at the meaning; this process of interpretation must yield æsthetic pleasure, and to this pleasure must be added that yielded by the communication medium.
1918 E. G. Hill Mod. Hist. New Haven I. 211 In the early development of another communication medium of prime importance [sc. the telephone] New Haven had a conspicuous and continuing part.
1995 D. Marc Bonfire of Humanities 49 Of all the communication media that are displacing, replacing, and redefining personal thought processes in the late twentieth century, none is more ubiquitous or potent than television.
communication network n.
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1921 Daily Mail (Hagerstown, Maryland) 28 Jan. 3/1 Make every wireless operator in the country a cog in a vast communication network.
1992 Dr. Dobb's Jrnl. Sept. 5/1 Are the computer and telecommunications industries butting heads instead of holding hands when building tomorrow's global communication networks?
communication problem n.
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1897 Marble Rock (Iowa) Weekly 8 Apr. Clarence and John Taylor, living a mile apart on the Taylor farms.., have solved the communication problem.
1952 H. O. Ronken & P. R. Lawrence Administering Changes ix. 317 Only the administrator who is interested in developing his skills of self-awareness will be able to act in ways that take these communication problems into account.
2007 Theoret. Computer Sci. 384 199 For knowledge bases that fulfill the strong routing table property, a protocol is presented that solves the all-to-all communication problem.
communication room n.
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1873 Appletons' Jrnl. 11 Oct. 462/2 A number of little tubes..are laid from the pneumatic communication-room (also the telegraph room) to Fenchurch Street.
1942 Port Arthur (Texas) News 17 Dec. 10/3 Forty messages came through the communication room from the wardens in the two zones and the operators were on the alert.
2007 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 17 July 18 The 15,500 monthly total of 999s managed by the [police] force's communication rooms.
communication science n.
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1924 Davenport (Iowa) Democrat & Leader 23 Nov. 4/6 Experts are watching the advance of communication science.
2007 Cornish Guardian (Nexis) 1 Aug. 8 You get the opportunity to gain invaluable experience across a range of applied technologies in the rapidly changing and advancing fields of IT and communication science.
communication service n.
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1810Communication service [see Compounds 1a(a)].
1890 Electr. Engineer 23 May 399/2 A number of..officers..who have received instruction in telegraphy, will shortly be despatched to East Africa..in order to establish an improved news and communication service.
1928 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 22 319 A comprehensive project for applying to the French mail and communication services ‘business principles’.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 Sept. d3/1 Twitter, the short-message communication service.
communication system n.
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1879 A. T. Sears & E. Webster Railway Guide 140 It will be seen that the [Bell Telephone] company are energetically striving to render the communication system complete.
1933 Electronics June 160 A monitoring panel and a two-way communication system so that the operator may keep in constant communication with the pilot of a landing aircraft.
2000 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. (Energy Suppl.) 1/1 (advt.) Con Ed will test a technology designed to transform ordinary electrical wires into a broadband communication system.
communication technology n.
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society > computing and information technology > [noun]
communications technology1941
communication technology1950
information technology1952
computer science1956
computery1960
cyberculture1963
computerdom1968
infotech1981
IT1982
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 56 1 The once largely self-sufficient community had moved toward greater interdependence with the outside world, most markedly in production and communication technology.
2001 D. Crystal Lang. & Internet i. 5 It seems likely that these effects will be as pervasive and momentous as in the case of the previous communication technologies.
b.
(a) With first element in plural form (chiefly in sense 5c).Some of the more established compounds of this type are entered separately at Compounds 1b(b).
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1916 Socialism To-day 630 Nationalize transport and communications equipment.
1935 P. H. Clyde Japan's Pacific Mandate iv. 54 A memorandum on cables and radio was submitted to President Wilson [in 1919] by Walter S. Rogers, a communications expert of the American Commission.
1941 Public Opinion Q. 5 456 In this paper Dr. Lasswell explores the possibilities of this kind of communications research.
1949 R. K. Merton in Lazarsfeld & Stanton Communications Research 180 (heading) A study of interpersonal influence and of communications behavior in a local community.
1959 Listener 21 May 885/1 A communications culture.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 13 Jan. 47/5 (advt.) A communications career awaits the ambitious young man with supervisory or sales potential.
1996 T. Clancy Executive Orders xiii. 172 It could still take photos through three of its cameras and relay them to the geosynchronous communications bird over the Indian Ocean.
2005 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 20 Mar. a1 VoIP will evolutionize rather than revolutionize the communications industry.
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communications centre n.
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1918 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 28 Aug. 5/2 The main railway which..continues eastward toward the great communications center of LaFere.
1966 Times 21 Sept. (Ascension Island Suppl.) p. iv/3 I recently picked up this telephone and asked the communications centre..to patch me in on the network.
1999 M. J. Friedman My Brother's Keeper ii. xiv. 219 If they could disable the communications center, the aggressors' entire cybernetic system would become useless.
communications device n.
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1941 Harvard Law Rev. 55 p. xvii (advt.) Their great laboratories are working constantly to perfect new acoustical and communications devices.
2001 Contact May Gloss. 104/2 It can be used to add extra memory, extra storage or even communications devices like modems or network cards.
communications link n.
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1935 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 10 July 9/4 Once these communications links are completed, several columns of troops would strike inward toward Addis Adaba.
1970 New Scientist 4 June 470/1 Industry..may be willing to pay for devices that limit access to any communications link to those with the correct ‘descrambler’.
1994 This Country Canada Winter 24 (caption) These troposcatter antennas..were designed to be the communications link from the Arctic to the United States.
communications medium n.
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1929 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 31 Mar. 12 a/1 The Western Union, the other great international communications medium of this country.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 200 (note) The related ironic translations ‘I need it very badly’.., ‘That's all I need’..are also increasingly turning up in conversation and in communications media.
1993 Wired Dec. 100/1 At that time, most online pioneers had staked out profitable territory in a new communications medium offering consumers electronic versions of familiar messaging tools.
communications network n.
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1921 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 28 Jan. 2/2 Experiments are being made which..will make every wireless operator in the country a cog in a vast communications network.
2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 295/1 As these electronic transactions are increasingly mediated through a widespread communications network, location becomes far less of a barrier to economic participation than it was before.
communications plane n.
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1940 N. Monks Squadrons Up! i. 13 A two-seater Magister communications plane.
2004 News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, Indiana) (Nexis) 12 June 1l The communications plane that in those days preceded the president's plane to set up links with the White House and carry his car from place to place.
communications program n.
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1970 N.Y. Times 9 July 53/3 I.B.M...giving without cost to customers of its Type 360 computer an auxiliary remote communications program.
1982 Computerworld (Nexis) 24 May 66 The product also includes a communications program to load software onto the network.
1995 NetGuide Sept. 69/1 They are more likely to be supported with set-up strings in the wide variety of communications programs available.
communications problem n.
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1921 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Times 26 Feb. 1/8 Reports that the conference would attempt to..work out a solution of the communications problem regardless of any decision the league council might make with reference to Yap.
1948 W. Weaver in C. E. Shannon & W. Weaver Math. Theory Communication 95 (heading) Three levels of communications problems.
1998 SIAM Jrnl. Discrete Math. 11 15 Communications problems that involve frequency interference..can be cast as graph coloring problems in which the frequencies..assigned to an edge's vertices interfere.
communications room n.
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1929 Modesto (Calif.) News-Herald 27 Feb. 10/1 The communications room housing the White House switch board, private telegraph wires and mail clerks.
1998 A. Emmerson Electronic Classics iv. xxvii. 313 Tour of once secret wartime installations buried deep inside the cliffs includes viewing of the communications room, with large quantities of old switchboards, amplifiers and other equipment.
communications service n.
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1907 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 1 (Suppl.) 219 (heading) Agreement between Japan and Corea, signed April 1, 1905, regarding Communications Services.
1969 Datamation Feb. 116/1 ‘Other entities’—specifically including the computer industry—who are likely to offer nonbroadcast communications services via CATV.
2002 Philadelphia Inquirer 29 Dec. e 2/1 Forget that 1990s prediction that homes would soon get all their communications services through one ‘fat pipe’.
communications software n.
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1969 Times 17 Apr. 26/3 (advt.) The successful candidate will have..a detailed knowledge of the communications software of at least one major computer manufacturer.
2008 Computer Weekly 7 Oct. 85/1 IT executives are still fighting a battle to prevent data leaking from their organisations through e-mail attachments, USB ports and other communications software.
communications system n.
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1910 M. Terauchi in A. Hamilton et al. Korea xxii. 271 Before the Korean Government assigned their communications system to Japan, there were altogether sixty-one Japanese post-offices.
1928 Times 7 July 20/2 A report recommending a combination of all the cable and wireless communications systems.
1997 Metalworking Production May 36/2 The antenna horns used in satellite-based communications systems.
communications technology n.
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society > computing and information technology > [noun]
communications technology1941
communication technology1950
information technology1952
computer science1956
computery1960
cyberculture1963
computerdom1968
infotech1981
IT1982
1941 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 15 Aug. 11/4 The University of Alabama this Fall will inaugurate a course in communications technology.
1967 Economist 1 July 32/2 The only way in which the federal government could expect to keep abreast of the developments in communications technologies.
2006 Computer Weekly 24 Jan. 38/1 Printers have merged with scanners and communications technology to produce a hybrid known as the all-in-one printer.
C2. With the sense ‘constituting or providing a physical means of communication; linking, connecting’, as communication pipe, communication trough, etc. See also communication trench n. at Compounds 3a.
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1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 265 The bigness assigned for the communication-Pipes will..prove more than sufficient to this effect.
?1761 J. Grundy et al. Rep. Present State River Witham 21 To erecting a New Sluice at Anthony's Gowt and making the communication Cut.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Fire-ship Two troughs of communication from each door of the fire-room to the sally-ports, must be laid..: also a cross-piece to go from the sally-port..to the communication trough.
1846 Sci. Amer. 26 Dec. 110/4 A magazine..with an iron pipe ascending from its top, connected with the traction and communication pipes.
1886 Chambers's Jrnl. 3 698/2 Every shaft has now a communication pit.
1916 Fort Wayne (Indiana) 19 Feb. 11/3 One [target] was an enemy trench 350 yards away, another was a communication sap 500 yards off.
1984 Times 30 May 2/4 At Dodworth pit..a vital communication tunnel has been reduced by geological pressures from 12 feet to three feet for nearly half a mile.
1995 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 23 Dec. 4 A West Coast conductor locked the carriage's communication doors before it travelled to Geelong in the morning.
C3.
a. With first element in singular form.
communication cord n. originally and chiefly British (originally) a cord running along the length of a train, by pulling on which a guard or passenger could communicate quickly with the driver (now historical); (in later use) a similar cord or chain connected to an emergency brake.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > device to communicate with driver or guard
communicator1847
communication cord1854
1854 Morning Chron. 6 Jan. 8/1 The prisoner had charge of the communication cords at the Farnham-station... These cords..go under each carriage, so that the guards can instantly communicate with the engine-driver.
1894 J. Pendleton Our Railways II. xxxiii. 200 The communication-cord has been of service in preventing disaster.
1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier iii. iii. 176 She screamed, tore herself away; sprang up and pulled a communication cord.
1991 Guardian (Nexis) 28 Dec. The crowded passenger train..was halted when one of the extremists pulled the communication cord.
communication engineer n. a person who works or specializes in the field of communications engineering.
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1921 Trans. Amer. Inst. Electr. Engineers 40 809 There are approximately six hundred communication engineers identified with the Institute.
1950 Sci. Amer. May 42 Communication engineers call this system ‘pulse-frequency modulation’.
2003 ‘S. Pax’ Weblog Diary 22 May in Baghdad Blog 177 An ingenious Iraqi communication engineer put up a dish on top of the Dawoodi exchange and set up a number of phone booths for people to make phone calls abroad.
communication engineering n. the branch of technology concerned with communication using special apparatus or techniques, such as telephony or radio.
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1920 Harvard Univ. Official Reg., Descr. Catal. 1920–21 356 (title) Special problems in communication engineering.
1942 Electron. Engin. 15 252 Practically all sources of electrical energy used in radio or communication engineering have appreciable internal resistance.
2002 S. Garrod in G. T. M. Altmann Psycholinguistics III. xlv. 482 According to this model, which has its origins in communication engineering, a sender encodes his message into a signal, which then enables information to be transferred to a receiver who decodes that signal.
communication gap n. a difficulty in or barrier to the communication between two groups, places, etc.; a difference or disparity which causes this.
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1930 Mason City (Iowa) Globe-Gaz. 2 May 3/1 The little network of copper strands on the roof of the parlor car..bridging for the first time the communication gap between a moving train and the outside world.
1956 Social Probl. 3 227/2 Perhaps the underlying cause of this communication gap is the difficulty of sharing and combining concepts between disciplines.
2003 F. D. Barriga in W. F. Pinar Internat. Handbk. of Curriculum Res. xxv. 462 This situation generated a communication gap between the productors of discourse and the actors of the problem.
communication line n. originally Military = line of communication at line n.2 26a; (later more generally) any line or route along which communication can take place.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > signals > [noun] > line of communication
communication line1660
line(s) of communication(s)1802
1660 Fortunate Rising 1/1 The Communication Line was a Jigge.
1682 A. Radcliffe Ramble 94 Can you discourse of Hand-Granadoes,..Of Bastions, blowing up of Mines, Or of Communication Lines?
a1736 R. Kane Campaigns King William & Queen Anne (1745) 101 He attack'd and drove the Enemy out of the Communication Line.
1896 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 15 July 2/3 The communication line between Gomez and Maceo and the other generals of the Cuban army is unbroken.
1947 Internat. Affairs 23 27 The United States could not fight successfully to the east, north or west without being sure of its main communication line, the Panama Canal.
1999 H. F. Dahl Quisling vi. 241 His attempt to monopolise the communication line to Hitler through Dr Lammers had been rebutted from Berlin.
communication plate n. Zoology = rosette plate n. (a) at rosette n. Compounds 3.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Polyzoa > [noun] > member of > portion of wall between cells
communication plate1889
1889 H. A. Nicholson & R. Lydekker Man. Palæontol. (ed. 3) I. 607 Contiguous cells are commonly placed in direct connection with one another by what have been called ‘communication-plates’ or ‘rosette-plates’.
1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 227 The individuals of a colony may communicate with one another, either directly, or by means of communication-plates; these are portions of the zoœcium which are thinner and perforated.
2003 Hydrobiologia 490 135 P.erecta..has a continuous funiculus, a simple communication plate, lacks a dorso-ventral muscle, and is an external brooder.
communication receiver n. Electronics = communications receiver n. at Compounds 3b.
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1931 U.S. Patent 1,799,507 2/1 I claim..a receiving device having an impedance lower than the impedance of the communication receiver.
1940 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 21 July 10/3 (advt.) RCA communication receiver, which shows a very strong signal that does not seem to fade.
2004 B. S. Virdee et al. Broadband Microwave Amplifiers Pref. p. xi Communication receivers may only require narrow bandwidth..but must be tunable, whereas commercial radar receivers have fixed frequency and moderate bandwidth.
communication satellite n. = communications satellite n. at Compounds 3b.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > link or network > satellite
communication satellite1957
communications satellite1957
satellite link1959
Intelsat1966
1957 N.Y. Times Mag. 8 Dec. 100/3 A few such communication satellites will handle the entire volume of private and official communications between all points of the earth..more than five hundred miles apart.
1991 OnSat 27 Jan. 4/2 Geosynchronous orbit, used by conventional communication satellites, was out of the question for Iridium.
1997 N.Y. Times 10 June b10/1 Using the Argos communication satellite system to receive signals from the penguins' transmitters, they measured foraging trips as long as 324 miles.
communication skills n. abilities that enable one to communicate effectively with other people, esp. considered as a qualification or asset; (sometimes) spec. an aptitude for conveying information and ideas combined with good listening and comprehension skills.
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society > communication > [noun] > ability to communicate
communicablenessa1631
communicativeness1653
communication skills1935
communications skills1945
1935 Eng. Jrnl. 24 111 The English teacher who seeks to improve the communication skills of his students.
1967 Jrnl. School Psychol. 5 107 A practicum in communication skills..might well prove worthy of addition to the preparation of school psychologists.
1990 P. Taylor See how they Run iv. 88 They were media-age candidates who believed their path to the Oval Office lay in communication skills and personal attractiveness, not in party support or institutional backing or ideological purity.
2001 Community Care 13 Dec. 58/1 (advt.) Applications are invited from individuals who are prepared to develop workbased and e.learning. You must have effective communication skills to work with colleagues, students and practitioners at a distance.
communication trench n. Military a subsidiary trench forming a means of communication between two different positions.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > types of trench
transverse1704
front trench1847
communicating trench1857
shelter-trench1870
firing bay1885
communication trench1903
fire trench1907
funk-hole1914
support trench1914
foxhole1915
fire bay1916
slit-trench1942
1903 B. F. S. Baden-Powell War in Pract. v. 188 Communication trenches may be made to connect important works, or groups of works, with the central base.
1914 Illustr. London News 24 Oct. 571 At all points subject to shell-fire access to the firing-line from behind is provided by communication-trenches.
1938 ‘G. Orwell’ in J. E. Lewis Mammoth Bk. War Correspondents (2001) 191 The next Fascist ‘position’..lay two hundred yards to the right of the other, joined to it by a communication-trench.
2003 H. J. van de Ven War & Nationalism China vi. 216 Usually only a single line of trenches had been dug,..without communication trenches to the rear.
communication valve n. Engineering a valve for controlling the flow of steam between an engine and a connected boiler; (more widely) any valve for controlling the flow of gas or liquid between two parts of a mechanical system.
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1846 Mechanics' Mag. 28 Nov. 506/2 Fig. 6 exhibits a sectional elevation of the steam admission and communication valves, with the gearing for working them.
1876 Janesville (Wisconsin) Gaz. 22 July The communication valve was also closed, and no steam was able to escape even to the engine.
2006 Chem. Engin. Sci. 61 3877/2 When the feed tank was almost emptied, the communication valve between the two tanks was opened for replenishment for a new series of measurements.
b. With first element in plural form.
communications director n. (also with capital initials) (a) a person with responsibility for the technology used for the exchange and transmission of information within an organization; (b) a person in charge of public relations, marketing, etc., for an organization.
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1936 Lima (Ohio) Sunday News 29 Nov. 31/1 Kinsey, communications director of the Ohio Highway Patrol, said several state police organizations already are operating telegraph transmitters.
1956 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 33 292 The Communications Director adds dulcetly, ‘Oh yes, and has any decision been reached concerning the company's request for classes in technical and related training?’
1998 Independent 21 May i. 1/2 Camelot..has shortlisted two candidates for the job of communications director, believed to be people with high-level government contacts.
communications engineer n. = communication engineer n. at Compounds 3a.
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1928 Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.) 9 Aug. 1/4 Those at the demonstration included: Radio Corporation of America—David Sarnoff vice-president..; C. H. Taylor, chief communications engineer.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 11 The communications engineer is helped by some knowledge of the basic composition of the language signals.
1997 N.Y. Times 13 Oct. c6/3 Communications engineers said court rulings have created loopholes that permit eavesdropping on portable phones and baby monitors.
communications engineering n. = communication engineering n. at Compounds 3a.
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1931 Times 13 July 10/2 The general exhibits are to be classified in nine sections covering electric generation, electric transmission..and communications engineering.
2005 Space Policy 21 103/1 Since its launch in 2004 it has been providing amateur radio operators with wonderful opportunities for basic education and experience in communications engineering.
communications manager n. (also with capital initials) (a) = communications director n. (a); (b) = communications director n. (b).
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1926 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 11 Apr. 16 a/4 The new communications manager is not a newcomer... It was under his supervision that world-wide transmission tests on 5, 20 and 40 meters were held..for the purpose of developing the possibilities of these wavelengths for long-distance communication.
1960 Jrnl. Marketing 25 No. 2. 69 We are probably in for more title changes. We will have Communications Managers, and the title Marketing Services Manager will become increasingly common.
1997 Shetland Times 21 Nov. 5/6 ‘We did mark the 50th anniversary which we believe was the main one to celebrate,’ Royal Mail communications manager Ian Mollison said.
communications receiver n. Electronics a radio receiver, esp. one with high specifications for use in telecommunication.
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1931 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 30 Aug. iii. 9/3 The growth from the very first communications receivers..will be portrayed in the display.
1967 New Scientist 11 May 342/1 Many ground and airborne radar systems, missiles and communications receivers for all three services are being developed in microelectronic form.
1989 I. D. Poole Introd. Amateur Radio vi. 70 Most people interested in amateur radio want some form of communications receiver. From the name it can be gathered that they are generally used for receiving long distance or communications type transmissions.
communications satellite n. an artificial satellite used for telecommunications.
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society > communication > telecommunication > [noun] > link or network > satellite
communication satellite1957
communications satellite1957
satellite link1959
Intelsat1966
1957 A. C. Clarke Making of Moon xv. 177 The communications satellites could be unmanned, automatic repeater stations like those now in common use in out-of-the-way places.
1966 Economist 18 June 1307/1 The first of three such launches which are to put a chain of 24 defence communications satellites in synchronous orbit round the earth.
2000 Independent 6 July i. 14/6 The..global spying network that eavesdrops on phone calls, faxes or e-mails passing via communications satellites.
communications skills n. = communication skills n. at Compounds 3a.
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society > communication > [noun] > ability to communicate
communicablenessa1631
communicativeness1653
communication skills1935
communications skills1945
1945 Sociometry 8 31 Possible relationships of psychodrama and semantics in clearing blockages in basic communications skills.
2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. 18/2 (advt.) Possessing outstanding communications skills, you will be able to lead and inspire teams to develop and push these technologies beyond their current limits.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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