Reciprocal vs Communicate - What's the difference?
reciprocal | communicate |
Of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.
* Shakespeare
Mutually interchangeable.
* I. Watts
(grammar) Reflexive; applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to pronouns that express mutual action.
(math) Used to denote different kinds of mutual relation; often with reference to the substitution of reciprocals for given quantities.
contrary or opposite
(arithmetic) Of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.
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 an adjective reciprocal
is of a feeling, action or such: mutual, uniformly felt or done by each party towards the other or others; two-way.As a noun reciprocal
is (arithmetic) of a number, the number obtained by dividing 1 by the given number; the result of exchanging the numerator and the denominator of a fraction.As a verb communicate is
to impart.reciprocal
English
Adjective
(-)- reciprocal''' love; '''reciprocal duties
- Let our reciprocal vows be remembered.
- These two rules will render a definition reciprocal with the thing defined.
Synonyms
* mutual, two-way * contrary, opposite, converse, inverse, inverted, cross * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- 0.5 is the reciprocal of 2.
Synonyms
* (in arithmetic) multiplicative inversecommunicate
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.