Communicate Communicated Kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt Communicating Email Dolphins Sound Verb

• we only communicate by email.
• they communicated in sign language.
• dolphins use sound to communicate with each other.
• to communicate information/a message to somebody

communicate

1. to exchange information, news, ideas, etc. with somebody
• We only communicate by email.
• They communicated in sign language.
• Dolphins use sound to communicate with each other.
• to communicate information/a message to somebody
• We talked on the phone for over an hour.
• Have you discussed the problem with anyone?
• I’ve spoken to the manager about it.
• ‘Can I speak to Susan?’ ‘Speaking.’ (= at the beginning of a telephone conversation)
• Have you talked to your parents about the problems you’re having?
• I’ve spoken to Ed about it and he’s promised not to let it happen again.
• We only communicate by email.
• Dolphins use sound to communicate with each other.
• Politicians will be debating the bill later this week.
• You shouldn’t have done it without consulting me.
2. to make your ideas, feelings, thoughts, etc. known to other people so that they understand them
• Candidates must be able to communicate effectively.
• He was eager to communicate his ideas to the group.
• Her nervousness was communicating itself to the children.
• They failed to communicate what was happening and why.
3. to have a good relationship because you are able to understand and talk about your own and other people’s thoughts, feelings, etc.
• The novel is about a family who can't communicate with each other.
4. to pass a disease from one person, animal, etc. to another
• The disease is communicated through dirty drinking water.
5. if two rooms communicate, they are next to each other and you can get from one to the other
• a communicating door (= one that connects two rooms)

Extra Examples

• By this age most children have begun to communicate verbally.
• Newspapers are an important way of communicating information.
• She is unable to communicate her ideas to other people.
• We communicated through an interpreter.
• We usually communicate by letter.
• couples who communicate well with one another
• Nobody had communicated the information to us.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they communicate
• he / she / it communicates
• past simple communicated
• past participle communicated
• -ing form communicating

Word Origin

• early 16th cent.: from Latin communicat- ‘shared’, from the verb communicare ‘to share’, from communis ‘common’.