Uncover vs Communicate - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between uncover and communicate

is that uncover is to remove the cover of an object while communicate is to impart.

uncover

English

Verb

(en verb)

to remove the cover of an object

The model railway was uncovered .

To reveal the identity of

The murderer has finally been uncovered .

To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.

* Milton

To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.

To divest of the hat or cap; to bare the head of.

to uncover oneself

Antonyms

* cover up

communicate

English

Verb

(communicat)

To impart

# To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) (to) someone; to make known, to tell.

It is vital that I communicate this information to you.

# To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.

to communicate motion by means of a crank

#* Jeremy Taylor

Where God is worshipped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.

# To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.

The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.

To share

# (obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.

We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.

#* Ben Jonson

thousands that communicate our loss

# (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:

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.

# (Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).

#* Jeremy Taylor

She [the church] may communicate him.

# To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.

Many deaf people communicate with sign language.

I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.

# To be connected (with) (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.

The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.

Hyponyms

* See also