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Transmit vs Traduce - What's the difference?

transmit | traduce |

As verbs the difference between transmit and traduce

is that transmit is to send or convey something from one person, place or thing to another while traduce is to malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.

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)

    traduce

    English

    Verb

    (traduc)
  • To malign a person or entity by making malicious and false or defamatory statements.
  • * , scene 4
  • This heavy-headed revel east and west
    Makes us traduced and tax'd of other nations:
  • (archaic) To pass on (to one's children, future generations etc.); to transmit.
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , X:
  • However therefore this complexion was first acquired, it is evidently maintained by generation, and by the tincture of the skin as a spermatical part traduced from father unto son [...].
  • (archaic) To pass into another form of expression; to rephrase, to translate.
  • * 1865 , "The Last of the Tercentenary", Temple Bar , vol. XIII, Mar 1865:
  • From Davenant down to Dumas, from the Englishman who improved'' ''Macbaeth'' to the Frenchman who traduced into the French of Paris four acts of ''Hamlet , and added a new fifth act of his own, Shakespeare has been disturbed in a way he little thought of when he menacingly provided for the repose of his bones.

    Synonyms

    * (pass on) hand down, bequeath, leave * (malign or defamatory statements) defame, libel, slander * (convert languages) translate * See also

    Derived terms

    * traducement * traducer * traducingly * traduction

    Anagrams

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