Conversate vs Communicate - What's the difference?
conversate | communicate |
(African American Vernacular English) To converse, to have conversation.
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To impart
# To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) (to) someone; to make known, to tell.
# To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
#* Jeremy Taylor
# To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
To share
# (obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
#* Ben Jonson
# (Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
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# (Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
#* Jeremy Taylor
# To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
# To be connected (with) (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.
As verbs the difference between conversate and communicate
is that conversate is (african american vernacular english) to converse, to have conversation while communicate is to impart.conversate
English
Verb
(conversat)- We don't just want to go to class and not conversate with the teachers.
- Barry did grow up in a white neighborhood, you know, and he does know how to conversate , and he does know how to pronounce his vowels, he knows how to talk.
- I'll talk to them and conversate [sic ], but I won't pay no mind to the things that they do.
Anagrams
* * ----communicate
English
Verb
(communicat)- It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
- to communicate motion by means of a crank
- Where God is worshipped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.
- The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
- We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.
- thousands that communicate our loss
- The ‘better sort’ might communicate on a separate day; and in some parishes even the quality of the communion wine varied with the social quality of the recipients.
- She [the church] may communicate him.
- Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
- I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
- The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.