communicate

Communicate means to exchange ideas or make something known. (verb)

An example of to communicate is to call a friend on the phone.

See communicate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb

to receive Holy Communion
1. to give or exchange information, signals, or messages in any way, as by talk, gestures, or writing
2. to have a sympathetic or meaningful relationship
to be connected: the living room communicates with the dining room

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See communicate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(kə-myo͞oˈnĭ-kātˌ)

verb com·mu·ni·cat·ed, com·mu·ni·cat·ing, com·mu·ni·cates

verb, transitive

a. To convey information about; make known; impart: communicated his views to our office.
b. To reveal clearly; manifest: Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown.
To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit: a carrier who communicated typhus.

verb, intransitive

To have an interchange, as of ideas.
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.
To be connected, one with another: apartments that communicate.

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