Communicate vs Lecture - What's the difference?
communicate | lecture |
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.
#* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 148:
# (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.
(senseid) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.
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, passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture , with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.}}
A berating or scolding.
(obsolete) The act of reading.
(senseid)(ambitransitive) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
To preach, to berate, to scold.
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In transitive terms the difference between communicate and lecture
is that communicate is to pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc while lecture is to preach, to berate, to scold.As verbs the difference between communicate and lecture
is that communicate is to impart while lecture is (to teach) To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.As a noun lecture is
(a spoken lesson) A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.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.
Hyponyms
* See alsolecture
English
(wikipedia lecture)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(lectur)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.}}
