Community vs Communicate - What's the difference?
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A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
* Hallam
* Wordsworth
A commune, or residential or religious collective.
The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
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, title= (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
* (John Locke)
* (Washington Irving)
(obsolete) common character; likeness.
* H. Spencer
(obsolete) commonness; frequency
* Shakespeare
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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.
#* 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.
As a noun community
is a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law see civilization.As a verb communicate is
to impart.community
English
Noun
(wikipedia community) (communities)- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
- Creatures that in communities exist.
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
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- The original community of all things.
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- Eyes sick and blunted with community .
Derived terms
* community service * community spiritReferences
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.