Transmit vs Penetrate - What's the difference?
transmit | penetrate |
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 enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
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, author=Th Du Moncel, page=166, publisher=Harper
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(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
* Ray
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
* M. Arnold
To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)
As verbs the difference between transmit and penetrate
is that transmit is to send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another while penetrate is to enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.transmit
English
Verb
(transmitt)Synonyms
* (l)penetrate
English
(Penetration)Verb
(penetrat)- Light penetrates darkness.
- I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
- things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate
- to penetrate one's heart with pity
- The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
- (Shakespeare)