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communicate
verb
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.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Communicate

Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*k[=a]t ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Communicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Communicating.] [L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Commune, v. i.]

  1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.]

    To thousands that communicate our loss.
    --B. Jonson

  2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.

    Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.
    --Jer. Taylor.

  3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

  4. To administer the communion to. [R.]

    She [the church] . . . may communicate him.
    --Jer. Taylor.

    Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.

    He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby.
    --Clarendon.

    Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known.

    Usage: To Communicate, Impart, Reveal. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret.

Communicate

Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. i.

  1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.

    Ye did communicate with my affliction.
    --Philip. iv. 4.

  2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid.

    To do good and to communicate forget not.
    --Heb. xiii. 16.

  3. To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.

    Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic.
    --Hakluyt.

    The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another.
    --Arbuthnot.

  4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.

    The primitive Christians communicated every day.
    --Jer. Taylor.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
communicate

1520s, "to impart" (information, etc.), from Latin communicatus, past participle of communicare "impart, inform" (see communication). Meaning "to share, transmit" (diseases, etc.) is from 1530s. Related: Communicated; communicating.

Wiktionary
communicate

vb. 1 To impart 2 # (context transitive English) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) (term: to) someone; to make known, to tell. (from 16th c.) 3 # (context transitive English) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of. (from 16th c.) 4 # (context transitive English) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc. (from 17th c.) 5 To share 6 # (context transitive obsolete English) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of. (16th-19th c.) 7 # (context intransitive Christianity English) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion. (from 16th c.) 8 # (context transitive Christianity English) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone). (from 16th c.) 9 # (context intransitive English) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information. (from 16th c.) 10 # (context intransitive English) To be connected (term: with) (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel. (from 16th c.)

WordNet
communicate
  1. v. transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees" [syn: pass on, pass, put across]

  2. transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" [syn: intercommunicate]

  3. transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit]

  4. join or connect; "The rooms communicated"

  5. be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"

  6. administer communion; in church [ant: excommunicate]

  7. receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune]

Wikipedia
Communicate (The Feelers album)

Communicate, released on 12 October 2001, is the second album by New Zealand rock band The Feelers. Singles include "Communicate", "As Good As It Gets", "Astronaut", "Fishing for Lisa", "The Web" and "Anniversary". It has sold over twice platinum on the New Zealand music charts.

Communicate (disambiguation)

Communicate is the verb form of communication.

Communicate may also refer to:

  • Communicate (Sasha and John Digweed album), 2000
  • Communicate (The Feelers album), 2001
  • Communicate (TV series), a Canadian game show television series
  • Willingness to communicate, language students willing to communicate in the second language
Communicate (TV series)

Communicate is a Canadian game show television series which aired on CBC Television from 1966 to 1967.

Communicate (Sasha and John Digweed album)

Communicate is a mix album by Sasha & John Digweed. It is their fifth mix album and the first since 1994 to not be part of the Northern Exposure concept album series.

Critically, the album was generally less well received than Northern Exposure: Expeditions. Spin stated that despite a "few stellar moments, [Communicate] is ultimately a let-down". LAUNCHcast, too, described Communicate as "boring and lackluster...stalled in a monochrome world of dead beats", though Communicate matched Expeditions in the general reception of fans. Communicate is their latest DJ mix album together, not counting the remake of Renaissance: The Mix Collection for the original album's 10th anniversary in 2004.

Usage examples of "communicate".

But I do not know if he communicated any of those from the afterworld, because the only dream-counsels that I could recall when I awoke were those that Wyrd had already imparted to me while he was still of this world.

If they were to make an initial non-violent contact with the Dyson aliens, I would expect them to make some attempt to communicate and build up a rapport.

Foreign Minister Hennyei communicated to the Swedish and Turkish Embassies in Budapest the proclamation and its reasons, and communicated also to the Hungarian Embassies in Stockholm and Ankara the request that they should bring the facts to the attention of the representatives of the Allied Powers.

The sanguinary struggle which now ensued between the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of the Potomac continued for three days, and the character of these battles, together with their decisive results, have communicated to the events an extraordinary interest.

Core knew that the topography of the Void Which Binds could be modulated to transmit information instantaneously -- via the fatline -- but that this was a clumsy and destructive use of the medium of Planck space, rather like communicating across a continent by means of artificially produced earthquakes.

Although we would be unable to communicate with the vessel, they would certainly beam down an investigating team, once biosensors showed life.

Yet even Dom Carlo, who had the precious laran too - everything about the man spoke of easy, accustomed power - could not communicate with the birds, though he seemed able to know anything about men.

Persian so that he could communicate freely with Bokharan officials, but to conceal his knowledge of Uzbek on the chance that he might overhear useful comments by men who thought that he did not understand.

Word, as Brahma, communicated to man the revelations to himself, 604-u.

Esther, who was as keen as a razor, took care to say that the same oath that I had taken had been imposed on her by the oracle, and that she could not communicate the cabalistic secret to anyone without the permission of her genius, under pain of losing it herself.

I immediately communicated with Majors Skinner and Cattley that I had been relieved.

Hitler communicated his thoughts to his military chiefs ten days later.

We put up at the end of thirteen miles, and were then joined by a Chipewyan, who came, as we supposed, to serve as our guide to Pierre au Calumet, but as none of the party could communicate with our new friend, otherwise than by signs, we waited patiently until the morning to see what he intended to do.

Formalized movements, the ancient unspoken language used to communicate with spirits and with other clans whose few guttural words and common hand signals were different, were all that followed.

Messengers were sent to communicate with these two leaders, but had they been British columns instead of fellow-countrymen they could not have found greater difficulty in running them to earth.