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IMPARTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The transmission of information
Synonyms:
conveyance; impartation; imparting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("imparting" is a kind of...):
transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "imparting"):
giving (the imparting of news or promises etc.)
Derivation:
impart (transmit (knowledge or skills))
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb impart
Context examples:
Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
On my imparting this discovery in confidence to Peggotty, she informed me that her brother dealt in lobsters, crabs, and crawfish; and I afterwards found that a heap of these creatures, in a state of wonderful conglomeration with one another, and never leaving off pinching whatever they laid hold of, were usually to be found in a little wooden outhouse where the pots and kettles were kept.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
In each of the sisters there was one trait of the mother—and only one; the thin and pallid elder daughter had her parent's Cairngorm eye: the blooming and luxuriant younger girl had her contour of jaw and chin—perhaps a little softened, but still imparting an indescribable hardness to the countenance otherwise so voluptuous and buxom.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
