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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
clearly
▪ Both the material to be covered in tests as well as the criteria used in evaluating student performance are clearly communicated in writing.
▪ They must be able to clearly communicate the results of their work, orally and in writing, to clients and management.
▪ The moral is that the need to clearly communicate findings must always take precedence over considerations of technical adequacy.
▪ General managers and top executives also must be able to communicate clearly and persuasively with customers, subordinate managers, and others.
directly
▪ Those nearest to such a person will have established some way of communicating directly.
▪ In doing this, he communicated directly with a supernatural dimension, either external or one that he sensed within himself.
▪ Countries that seem unable or unwilling to communicate directly with each other can do so indirectly by providing information to the media.
effectively
▪ The potential of graphs to communicate effectively is consequently being undermined.
▪ The ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, is also important.
▪ Teaching is the ability to communicate effectively to the student or pupil, enabling learning to take place.
▪ Emerson concedes that the new Clinton administration sometimes failed to communicate effectively.
▪ For their part, employees must communicate effectively what they want and need.
▪ Economic survival of the enterprise or its further progress depends on managers communicating effectively with employees.
▪ It is little wonder that these two camps have rarely communicated effectively with each other in the past.
■ NOUN
ability
▪ It has lost none of its imaginative power or ability to communicate ideas.
▪ Their ability to communicate unfolds in a sequence of stages, starting between about six months and eighteen months of age.
▪ They are merely one method of making possible the ability to communicate out of which a community can grow.
▪ The ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, is also important.
▪ For advocacy, obviously, the prime need is the ability to communicate by speech.
▪ The ability to communicate with the outside world proved to be the key to other, vital sponsorship.
▪ Teaching is the ability to communicate effectively to the student or pupil, enabling learning to take place.
▪ Earlier we noted that the ability to communicate could be considered a prerequisite for leadership.
audience
▪ You need to communicate to vast audiences.
▪ Many composers now crave the chance to write operas, but will they acknowledge the duty to communicate with the audience?
decision
▪ We have yet to learn how to communicate and make decisions in an electronic environment.
▪ Those leaders then communicate the decision as broadly as possible, hoping to build awareness and buy-in.
▪ The document communicating the decision advises the claimant of the right of appeal.
difficulty
▪ Without the models, the engineers had difficulty communicating at all.
▪ Without flexible models they have difficulty communicating, particularly with those not trained to work with the models.
employee
▪ Many had already been tried, but had clearly not been communicated to employees.
▪ Every organization routinely communicates with its employees about a variety of topics.
▪ Economic survival of the enterprise or its further progress depends on managers communicating effectively with employees.
▪ News of a proposed relocation should not only be communicated to employees but should also be given to suppliers and customers.
failure
▪ Poor communications Lack of understanding often arises through failure to communicate accurately and fully describe the state of the process.
▪ The virtue of financial transaction was its power to rocket above other failures to communicate.
▪ I suppose what we have here is a failure to communicate.
▪ Together, they have produced a massive failure to communicate.
idea
▪ It has lost none of its imaginative power or ability to communicate ideas.
▪ What idea does burning a flag communicate?
▪ Advertising must be designed to communicate certain ideas to certain types of people.
▪ Symbolism is a primitive but effective way of communicating ideas.
▪ It does not matter if it communicates totally different ideas to other types of people.
▪ And he says he has acquired some skill in communicating technical ideas that he uses in presentations for Lucas.
information
▪ The nurse should therefore attempt to communicate only the information necessary for the patient to manage say, the next 24 hours.
▪ Sports monkeys generally get about a 120-second window in a newscast to communicate information.
▪ During the given period of time, exposure to the decisions of others communicates some of the information these decision-makers originally lacked.
▪ Knowledge of circumstances is communicated partly by information exchange across man-machine interfaces but also by verbal exchanges between people.
language
▪ This includes giving instructions to the language helper and when communicating with any fellow students.
▪ Charles's body language was geared to communicating to street toughs.
▪ Thus, they invented their own language and communicated with other robots.
▪ Indeed it would be difficult to imagine how children were able to use language to communicate if no such conception were present.
▪ The idea here is that people working in groups can cooperate more efficiently if they can use a vocal language to communicate.
▪ They developed no spoken language and communicated solely by gestures.
means
▪ As computers become increasingly available to non-typists more natural means of communicating with them are sought. 1.2.1.1.
▪ For the Tuvans, traditionally, music has served as a means to communicate with the spirits.
▪ I would be interested to hear from anyone who has developed other means of communicating with people with learning difficulties.
▪ An accounting system is a formal means of gathering and communicating financial data.
▪ Your clothes are a means of communicating with other people.
▪ For Schroder-Sonnenstern, who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards, drawing was a means of communicating with the world.
▪ Use of tapes Videotapes of school activities are a useful means of communicating about work undertaken at school.
▪ It is the main form of internal business correspondence and the means used to communicate the majority of written messages.
message
▪ They also recommended drama as a powerful way of communicating appropriate messages.
▪ They learned to communicate a simple message with passion and enthusiasm.
▪ A different approach to video materials is to look at how they communicate their message.
▪ Like the popular JungleWorld exhibit, the forest will communicate a message of conservation and education.
▪ It is the main medium on which the government relies to communicate its message to the public, especially to rural communities.
▪ Simply by carrying out its day-to-day operations, an organisation necessarily communicates certain messages to those who interact with it.
▪ The court found the idea of Mr Warner unconsciously communicating coded messages to Samuel's fellow criminals quite ridiculous.
▪ They communicated with him via messages on his computer screen.
need
▪ Because, although Vladimir's environment is different, his essential business need to communicate isn't.
▪ Meanwhile the need to communicate, or at least coordinate, is accelerating.
▪ In this modern environment, there is no need to communicate with anybody.
▪ So is the need to communicate quickly in a society increasingly addicted to sound bites.
▪ They remain torn between the wish to forget their war experiences and the need to communicate them to others.
▪ The moral is that the need to clearly communicate findings must always take precedence over considerations of technical adequacy.
▪ It shows how in reality there is a need to communicate horizontally as well as vertically.
other
▪ These are multi-user domains, and may use any kind of media for people to communicate with each other.
▪ The aliens communicate telepathically with each other.
▪ We always communicate with each other and talk to each other.
▪ It is little wonder that these two camps have rarely communicated effectively with each other in the past.
▪ Countries that seem unable or unwilling to communicate directly with each other can do so indirectly by providing information to the media.
others
▪ They remain torn between the wish to forget their war experiences and the need to communicate them to others.
▪ For organizations to learn, they must remember and communicate lessons to others.
▪ This secondary elaboration of the original dream will use poetic language and ritual performance to communicate to others the original dream.
▪ There is no intention of communicating with others.
▪ Impatient with committee work, he was at his best when exploring new paths and communicating his enthusiasms to others.
▪ On the surface, attitude is the way you communicate your mood to others.
▪ Most user education programmes have so far been very much of a local nature with little attempt to communicate experience to others.
▪ There are economies of scale to be made and you may want to communicate with others.
people
▪ The therapeutic encounter is one in which two people communicate with one another, using a language.
▪ The technical definition of multimedia is the use of Multimedia mimics the natural way people communicate.
▪ Some people communicate easily; some don't.
▪ Baker knows people and how to communicate with them.
▪ It allows relatively inexpert people to communicate the gravity of the problem to others so teamwork can be handled sensibly.
▪ How do people communicate across space without words?
▪ But the inspiring resilience of older gay people is rarely communicated to gay youth.
person
▪ In this way, the infant is not only learning to communicate with another person, but also to communicate about something.
▪ Because defamation law is concerned with reputation, a statement can be defamatory only if it is communicated to a third person.
user
▪ This allows users to communicate in various ways with others on participating network systems.
way
▪ Summary Alternate ways of communicating with computers are required which do not require a keyboard.
▪ He suggests that the types of behavior or attitudes people manifest affect the way they communicate.
▪ The only way we could communicate was between ourselves when our teachers were out of earshot.
▪ The technical definition of multimedia is the use of Multimedia mimics the natural way people communicate.
▪ It was the way she communicated with him.
▪ For some companies, offering educational programs is one way to begin communicating that family friendly means father friendly.
▪ The marriage ended when her husband gave up the struggle to find better ways of communicating with her.
▪ Symbolism is a primitive but effective way of communicating ideas.
ways
▪ Summary Alternate ways of communicating with computers are required which do not require a keyboard.
▪ Everyone has his or her own style, personality, and ways of communicating.
▪ The marriage ended when her husband gave up the struggle to find better ways of communicating with her.
▪ This simple observation surprised us and made us change our ways of communicating with social workers.
▪ He just simply moved his body in ways that communicated more effectively than words.
▪ There were more goods to buy, more people with enough money to buy them and easier ways to communicate with them.
▪ One of the most powerful, though imprecise, ways in which music communicates is by its setting and sustaining a mood.
▪ Most partnerships involve tentative negotiations until they find ways of communicating that suit each of their needs.
word
▪ He just simply moved his body in ways that communicated more effectively than words.
▪ As food gatherers and child minders, women would have communicated with words.
▪ How do people communicate across space without words?
▪ Children become aware of this and tend to communicate in only those words that the computer understands.
▪ Rather, it is the vision articulated, the vision represented and communicated, in words and in actions.
▪ Man communicates by word of mouth and by body language.
▪ They seem able to communicate with each other without words and are extremely sensitive to atmosphere.
world
▪ The ability to communicate with the outside world proved to be the key to other, vital sponsorship.
▪ The cuddly robot may be a major route through which we communicate with the world of information.
▪ Before phones, people had to be literate in order to communicate with the outside world through letters.
▪ For Schroder-Sonnenstern, who lived in psychiatric institutions from 1919 onwards, drawing was a means of communicating with the world.
▪ They just would not communicate with the outside world for several days at a time.
▪ She felt a momentary triumph and something approaching relief, as if Amy had at last consented to communicate with the world.
■ VERB
allow
▪ This system allows me to communicate much better than I could before.
▪ The various standard protocols allow all clients to communicate with all servers.
▪ We had this feeling that we were not allowed to communicate with people.
▪ This allows users to communicate in various ways with others on participating network systems.
enable
▪ Workers will need a level of writing skill that will enable them to communicate quickly and effectively.
▪ I also believed that these experiences enabled me to communicate with many different kinds of people, from many different backgrounds.
fail
▪ Does this mean that the message hasn't got across, that Jane Austen has somehow failed to communicate?
▪ Emerson concedes that the new Clinton administration sometimes failed to communicate effectively.
▪ Schoenberg's own fear was that his new idioms might fail to communicate.
▪ As he watched them leave Converse felt that he had failed to communicate indifference.
▪ Frequently some one knows about a hazard, but fails to communicate with those who need to know.
help
▪ Sisask ` considers the mass to be a great mystery helping human beings to communicate with the higher invisible reality.
▪ Bell invented the telephone to help humans communicate.
▪ It should help us to communicate and spread experience, feelings, understandings and ideas and thus facilitate action.
▪ They want to use a customised version to help their overseas operatives communicate home and browse without blowing their cover.
learn
▪ It is a language that needs to be learned to communicate fully in the years to come.
▪ In the past several years, many leaders have learned to communicate the what and why parts of vision.
▪ We have to learn to communicate and that means conquering our fear of that process.
▪ They had eaten lunch together and told jokes together and slowly learned how to communicate with one another.
▪ This is an important goal in learning to communicate in a foreign language.
▪ The Bridge School helps children with severe physical and speech impairments learn to communicate.
▪ We have yet to learn how to communicate and make decisions in an electronic environment.
▪ Cindy seemed in some ways proud of the way she had learned to communicate with Robbie but was also anxious about it.
try
▪ Horses do try to communicate with us, and they expect us to understand.
▪ The day before he died he tried desperately to communicate something to me.
▪ It will be because Eeyore isn't even trying to communicate.
▪ I've been trying to communicate with - with whatever it is that's up there.
▪ He must try to communicate that to the children who were filled with evident self-recrimination, Katherine particularly.
▪ They tried to communicate and got on very well, despite the language difficulties.
▪ And I don't just mean the belief that you're trying to communicate.
▪ Misjudgements and mismatches of schemata are particularly likely when people try to communicate across cultures and across languages.
use
▪ Indeed it would be difficult to imagine how children were able to use language to communicate if no such conception were present.
▪ Satellite communications have recently expanded the capacity of governments to use the media to communicate with other governments.
▪ It is the main form of internal business correspondence and the means used to communicate the majority of written messages.
▪ Generally, most ISPs will provide you with all the necessary facilities to use the Internet and communicate by e-mail.
▪ One major multinational even uses this method to communicate details of its financial results.
▪ Patois was a success for the group in so far as they used it succinctly to communicate rejection of authority.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Andrea smiled at Jamie, communicating her affection for him with her eyes.
▪ Doctors are doing research into how the virus is communicated.
▪ Jack and I just aren't communicating anymore.
▪ Many parents find it difficult to communicate with their teenage sons or daughters.
▪ Now that we live in different cities, we communicate by e-mail.
▪ She's clever, but she can't communicate her ideas.
▪ She tried to communicate her fears to her mother.
▪ The course is designed to enable people to communicate effectively in speech and writing.
▪ They couldn't communicate in writing, because William was illiterate.
▪ You can communicate your mood to your baby without realising it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ali was never allowed out, but managed to communicate with his brothers by shouting.
▪ Does Raymond communicate with Della Guardia first, or does he go downstairs to address the faithful?
▪ During this time you will have developed the personal credibility to communicate persuasively at top management level.
▪ Improper behavior by individual political actors or by government agencies is exposed and widely communicated by investigative reporters.
▪ In this modern environment, there is no need to communicate with anybody.
▪ The day before he died he tried desperately to communicate something to me.
▪ The most important thing is to communicate with your partner at the back.
▪ These instruments are key to communicating train delays and platform changes.