Verb

(en verb)

To display or show (something) for others to see, especially at an exhibition or contest.

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To demonstrate.

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(legal) To submit (a physical object) to a court as evidence.

To put on a public display.

(medicine) To administer as a remedy.

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.