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COMMUNICATING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information
Example:
they could not act without official communication from Moscow
Synonyms:
communicating; communication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("communicating" is a kind of...):
act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "communicating"):
transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)
intercommunication (mutual communication; communication with each other)
medium (an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication)
channel; communication channel; line ((often plural) a means of communication or access)
mail; mail service; post; postal service (the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office)
dramatic art; dramatics; dramaturgy; theater; theatre (the art of writing and producing plays)
discourse; discussion; treatment (an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic)
exhortation (a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action)
expression; verbal expression; verbalism (the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions)
exam; examination; test (a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge)
persuasion; suasion (the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action)
dissuasion (persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action)
expostulation; objection; remonstrance; remonstration (the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest)
contact; touch (a communicative interaction)
traffic (the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time)
Derivation:
communicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)
communicate (transmit information)
communicate (be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb communicate
Context examples:
The more talented you are at communicating your thoughts, the better you will do.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Short letters from Frank were received at Randalls, communicating all that was immediately important of their state and plans.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This leads to the death of neurons, which stops them from communicating with each other and from reaching the muscles.
(Mechanism behind neuron death in motor neurone disease and frontotemporal dementia discovered, University of Cambridge)
The paired, mucosal lined air spaces located above the orbit and communicating with the nasal passages.
(Frontal sinus, NCI Thesaurus)
This is effectively the plant cells communicating their timing with neighbouring cells, in a similar way to how schools of fish and flocks of birds coordinate their movements by interacting with their neighbours.
(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)
A benign vascular lesion characterized by the presence of a complex network of communicating arterial and venous vascular structures.
(Arteriovenous Hemangioma, NCI Thesaurus)
The professor made me great acknowledgments for communicating these observations, and promised to make honourable mention of me in his treatise.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Both left and right anterior cerebral arteries are connected by the anterior communicating artery.
(Anterior Cerebral Artery, NCI Thesaurus)
These activities involve facilitating service delivery on behalf of the client, communicating with health and human service providers, promoting assertive client communication, and guiding the client toward use of appropriate community resources.
(Case management nurse, NCI Thesaurus)
A tab-delimited, spreadsheet-based format that can be used for annotating and communicating microarray data in a MIAME (Minimum Information About a Microarray Experiment) compliant fashion.
(MAGE-TAB, NCI Thesaurus)
