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Noun: communicating  ku'myoo-nu,key-ting
  1. The activity of conveying information
    "Effective communicating is crucial in any relationship";
    - communication
Verb: communicate  ku'myoo-nu,keyt
  1. Transmit information
    "Please communicate this message to all employees";
    - pass on, pass, pass along, put across
     
  2. Transmit thoughts or feelings
    "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist";
    - intercommunicate
     
  3. Be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas
    "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
     
  4. Transfer to another
    "communicate a disease";
    - convey, transmit
     
  5. Join or connect
    "The rooms communicated"
     
  6. Administer Communion; in church
    "The priest communicated the parishioners"; "She communicated for the first time at age seven"
     
  7. Receive Communion, in the Catholic church
    "They communicated at the altar";
    - commune

Type of: act, covenant, deed, human action, human activity, interact, intercommunicate, transfer

Antonym: unchurch

Encyclopedia: Communicating

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