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to communicate

to communicate

7 5.0
Have a door or space that lets people pass between rooms
  • verb
  • /kəˈmjunɪˌkeɪt/
  • UK
translation icon : comunicar (con)
  • In the new office layout, the meeting room will communicate seamlessly with the lounge area.

Examples

  • 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.

  • 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

to connect
vsto communicate
445 2.7

Attach something to power or a network so it works

is about rooms joined to allow people to pass from one to another
to link-up
vsto communicate
  • Specialized
1 3.7

To connect devices or systems so they can work together

is about rooms joined to allow people to move between areas
to intercommunicate
vsto communicate
7.2

To be directly connected so people can move between them

is limited to joining rooms so people can move between them

How Connected

to communicate
  • UK
7 5.0
to adjoin
33 5.2

Surface Forms

communicate infinitive
communicated past participle
communicating present participle
communicates third person singular

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.