Communicate vs Conservation - What's the difference?
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As a verb communicate is to impart. As a noun conservation is the act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
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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conservation Noun
The act of preserving, guarding, or protecting; the keeping (of a thing) in a safe or entire state; preservation.
Wise use of natural resources.
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(biology) The discipline concerned with protection of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources
(biology) Genes and associated characteristics of biological organisms that are unchanged by evolution, for example similar or identical nucleic acid sequences or proteins in different species descended from a common ancestor
(culture) The protection and care of cultural heritage, including artwork and architecture, as well as historical and archaeological artifacts
(physics) lack of change in a measurable property of an isolated physical system (conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, and fundamental symmetries)
Derived terms
* anticonservation
* anticonservationist
* conservational
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