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{
"term": "communicate",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "communicate",
"heSheIt": "communicates"
},
"pastSimple": "communicated",
"pastParticiple": "communicated",
"ingForm": "communicating"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to share or exchange information, news, ideas, feelings, etc.",
"sensetop": "communicate with somebody/somethingcommunicate somethingcommunicate something to somebodycommunicate how/what, etc…",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We only communicate by email."
},
{
"text": "They communicated in sign language."
},
{
"text": "Candidates must be able to communicate effectively."
},
{
"text": "Dolphins use sound to **communicate with each other**.",
"contextForm": "communicate with somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "Direct marketing allows a firm to communicate directly with its customers."
},
{
"text": "In times of uncertainty, a leader must be able to **communicate a message** of hope.",
"contextForm": "communicate something"
},
{
"text": "Language evolved as a means of communicating information between individuals."
},
{
"text": "He was eager to communicate his ideas to the group.",
"contextForm": "communicate something to somebody"
},
{
"text": "Her nervousness was communicating itself to the children."
},
{
"text": "They failed to communicate what was happening and why.",
"contextForm": "communicate how/what, etc…"
},
{
"text": "By this age most children have begun to communicate verbally."
},
{
"text": "Newspapers are an important way of communicating information."
},
{
"text": "She is unable to communicate her ideas to other people."
},
{
"text": "We communicated through an interpreter."
},
{
"text": "We usually communicate by letter."
},
{
"text": "Nobody had communicated the information to us."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["clearly", "effectively", "successfully"],
"preposition": ["by", "through", "to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to have a good relationship because you are able to understand and talk about your own and other people’s thoughts, feelings, etc.",
"sensetop": "communicate with somebody",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "His inability to communicate has damaged their relationship beyond repair."
},
{
"text": "The novel is about a family who can't communicate with each other.",
"contextForm": "communicate with somebody"
},
{
"text": "couples who communicate well with one another"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to pass a disease from one person, animal, etc. to another",
"sensetop": "communicate something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The disease is communicated through dirty drinking water."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "if two rooms communicate, they are next to each other and you can get from one to the other",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **communicating door** *(= one that connects two rooms)*"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/",
"audio": "co/communicate/communicate__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪts/",
"audio": "co/communicate/communicates__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/",
"audio": "co/communicate/communicated__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "co/communicate/communicating__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/",
"audio": "co/communicate/communicate__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪts/",
"audio": "co/communicate/communicates__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/",
"audio": "co/communicate/communicated__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪŋ/",
"audio": "co/communicate/communicating__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "early 16th cent.: from Latin communicat- ‘shared’, from the verb communicare ‘to share’, from communis ‘common’."
}