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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
communicable
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disease
▪ In fact leprosy is the least infectious of all the communicable diseases.
▪ The greatest achievements were obtained in the fight against communicable disease.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ AIDS is not communicable by food or drink.
▪ Her ideas were not easily communicable to others.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Feeling something very strongly in our mind often becomes communicable to the horse.
▪ In fact leprosy is the least infectious of all the communicable diseases.
▪ The extreme mechanistic approach that mainline medicine developed worked well for the great communicable killer diseases.
▪ The greatest achievements were obtained in the fight against communicable disease.
▪ To know something is to participate in a communicable truth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Communicable

Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*k[.a]*b'l), a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.]

  1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

  2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.]
    --B. Jonson. -- Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mu"ni*ca"bly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
communicable

late 14c., from Old French communicable, from Late Latin communicabilis, from communicare (see communication).

Wiktionary
communicable

a. 1 (context of a disease English) Able to be transmitted between people or species; contagious or catching 2 talkative or expansive 3 readily communicated

WordNet
communicable
  1. adj. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn: catching, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable]

  2. readily communicated; "communicable ideas"

Usage examples of "communicable".

Vigor brand Russian-made condoms, a few soiled, dogeared cards from less-than-reputable Moscow clubs known for the sexual hijinks that took place in private back rooms--Tarnapolsky had a small collection of such cartes de vi site--and, the crowning touch, a half-used tube of ointment customarily used to treat the topical manifestation of certain more benign sexually communicable diseases.

American control, the maritime quarantine was conducted upon a basis of graft, with the inevitable result that an outbreak of any dangerous communicable disease, like plague, cholera or smallpox, in the nearby foreign countries, meant the early introduction of the disease into the Philippines.

Did communicable diseases function the same way in this cosmos as in his own?

Everyone would gladly have been rid of their stupidity and viciousness, but unfortunately these diseases, although communicable, are not fatal.

I cannot pretend fully to explain, but I should be wanting in common liberality if I were to make any hesitation in asserting, that the disease which appeared in my practice was highly contagious, and communicable from one puerperal woman to another.

In the early eighties, a lethal new communicable disease arrived in our social consciousness: AIDS.

In the event of an outbreak of a communicable disease, the use of a serum prepared from the blood of a recovered victim of the same disease has proved efficacious.

Simmons, chief of the technology branch of the Communicable Disease Center of the U.

They pretended to suffer from the communicable disease without having reached the crazy stage so far.

The highly communicable Ebola virus appeared to have infected monkeys dying at a primate quarantine unit in Reston, Virginia.