Drivel vs Communicate - What's the difference?
drivel | communicate |
senseless talk; nonsense
saliva, drool
(obsolete) A fool; an idiot.
(obsolete) A servant; a drudge.
To have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool.
To talk nonsense; to talk senselessly.
To be weak or foolish; to dote.
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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 verbs the difference between drivel and communicate
is that drivel is to have saliva drip from the mouth; to drool while communicate is to impart.As a noun drivel
is senseless talk; nonsense.drivel
English
Noun
(-)- (Sir Philip Sidney)
- (Huloet)
Verb
- This drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole.
- (Dryden)
Synonyms
* To have saliva drip from the mouth : drool * To talk nonsense : See also .References
*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.