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单词 communicate
释义

communicateverb

uk/kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪt/us/kəˈmjuː.nə.keɪt/

communicate verb (SHARE INFORMATION)

B1 [ I or T ] to share information with others by speaking, writing, moving your body, or using other signals:

We can now communicate instantly with people on the other side of the world.
Unable to speak a word of the language, he communicated with (= using) his hands.
Has the news been communicated to the staff yet?
As an actor he could communicate a whole range of emotions.

B2 [ I ] to talk about your thoughts and feelings, and help other people to understand them:

I find I just can't communicate with her.

More examples

  • She went to see a clairvoyant who said he could communicate with her dead husband.
  • She is that rare animal , a brilliant scientist who can communicate her ideas to ordinary people.
  • Having knowledge is one thing but being able to communicate it to others is another kettle of fish.
  • His skill lies in his ability to communicate quite complex ideas very simply.
  • Coming up after the break, we have a man who claims he can communicate with fish.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Communicating & keeping in touch

  • ahold
  • bell
  • catch up
  • communication
  • communicative
  • give sb a bell idiom
  • hear
  • interact
  • interaction
  • pick
  • pick up the phone idiom
  • radio silence
  • raise
  • rapporteur
  • reach out to sb
  • ring (sb) back
  • send
  • send word idiom
  • signal
  • touch

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Empathy and sensitivity

communicate verb (DISEASE)

[ T ] specialized medical to pass a disease from one person or animal to another

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Passing on illness & causing disease

  • carrier
  • carry
  • catch
  • contagious
  • epidemic
  • incubate
  • infect
  • infected
  • infest
  • insalubrious
  • mediastinum
  • non-communicable
  • prophylactic
  • transmission
  • transmit
  • unhygienic
  • vector
  • verminous
  • virulence
  • virulent

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communicate verb (ROOMS)

[ I ] formal If one room communicates with another, it connects with it through a door:

The bedroom communicates with both bathroom and hall.
communicating rooms

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Connecting and combining

  • abut
  • adjoin
  • aggregate
  • allied
  • amalgamate
  • assemblage
  • bind
  • desegregate
  • dovetail
  • eclectic
  • entwine
  • fuse
  • fusion
  • hitch
  • linkage
  • lump sb/sth together
  • marriage
  • marry
  • meld
  • merge

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