Infect vs Communicate - What's the difference?
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As verbs the difference between infect and communicate is that infect is to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen) while communicate is to impart. As an adjective infect is (obsolete) infected.
infect English
Verb
( en verb)
To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
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To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.
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Antonyms
* disinfect
Derived terms
* infection
* infectible
Related terms
* infectious
Adjective
( -)
(obsolete) Infected.
* 1602 , , I. iii. 187:
- And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect .
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communicate English
Verb
( communicat)
To impart
# To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) (to) someone; to make known, to tell.
- It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
# To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
- to communicate motion by means of a crank
#* Jeremy Taylor
- Where God is worshipped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.
# To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
- The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
To share
# (obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
- We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.
#* Ben Jonson
- thousands that communicate our loss
# (Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
#* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 148:
- 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.
# (Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
#* Jeremy Taylor
- She [the church] may communicate him.
# To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
- Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
- I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
# To be connected (with) (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.
- The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
Hyponyms
* See also
Related terms
* communication
* communicator
* excommunicate
* communion
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