Transmit vs Infect - What's the difference?
transmit | infect |
As verbs the difference between transmit and infect is that transmit is while infect is to bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen). As an adjective infect is (obsolete) infected.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
transmit English
Verb
(transmitt)
To send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another.
To spread or pass on something such as a disease or a signal.
To impart, convey or hand down something by inheritance or heredity.
To communicate news or information.
To convey energy or force through a mechanism.
To send out a signal (as opposed to receive).
Synonyms
* (l)
Related terms
* transmission
* transmittable
* transmittal
* transmittance
* transmittant
* transmitter
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infect English
Verb
( en verb)
To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
, title= In the News
, volume=101, issue=3, page=193, magazine=( American Scientist)
, passage=Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.}}
To make somebody enthusiastic about one's own passion.
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Antonyms
* disinfect
Derived terms
* infection
* infectible
Related terms
* infectious
Adjective
( -)
(obsolete) Infected.
* 1602 , , I. iii. 187:
- And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect .
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