Transmit vs Infect - What's the difference?
transmit | infect |
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).
To bring into contact with a substance that causes illness (a pathogen).
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(obsolete) Infected.
* 1602 , , I. iii. 187:
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.transmit
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(transmitt)Synonyms
* (l)infect
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Verb
(en verb)Katie L. Burke
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.}}
Antonyms
* disinfectDerived terms
* infection * infectibleAdjective
(-)- And in the imitation of these twain, / Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns / With an imperial voice, many are infect .