to communicate
- verb
- /kəˈmjunɪˌkeɪt/
- UK
- In the new office layout, the meeting room will communicate seamlessly with the lounge area.
Examples
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And the right side of her face doesn't communicate with the left.
Fiction book (1996) -
The two are connected, but they don't always communicate well with one another.
Blog text (1) -
In this film, models of two public-housing towers appear to communicate with one another via the blinking lights of their windows.
Academic text (2004) -
A server needs to be in the KST before Lync will communicate with it.
Blog text (6) -
Passbook does not confirm a card upload independently, and it does not communicate back to a third-party app.
Blog text (1) -
All right, so this is where we communicate with the JCS and this area serves as the Autobots' hangar.
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Water lilies flourish in clusters and chemically communicate with one another within their community.
Academic text (2017) -
Finally, the system attributes of a workload describe how the processor and memory subsystem communicate with the I/O subsystem.
Academic text (2000) -
The caudal branches communicate with branches of cervical nerves C2 and C3.
Academic text (2003) -
The two rooms are designed to communicate with each other through an open doorway.
Synonyms
Attach something to power or a network so it works
To connect devices or systems so they can work together
To be directly connected so people can move between them
How Connected
Surface Forms
Morphology
communicate = com + commun + ate
The sense 'to be joined or connected' follows the general idea of 'making/common/allowing passage' and is readily inferable from the notion of sharing or connecting implied by the root for most learners.
Etymology
Communicate for rooms comes from Latin communicare 'to share' or 'make common', meaning the rooms 'share' a way to move between them. So, if rooms communicate, they are joined and you can pass from one to another.