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.

Verb

(defin)

To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.

* Sir (Isaac Newton)

Ringsvery distinct and well defined .

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(obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.).

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.3:

These warlike Champions, all in armour shine, / Assembled were in field the chalenge to define .

To express the essential nature of something.

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To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.

To describe, explain, or make definite and clear.

To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.

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(mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.