communicate
To tell someone information or ideas in words, writing, or other ways.
To give information, ideas, or feelings to another person, often by speaking, writing, or using other signals.
To understand each other and share ideas or feelings.
To be able to understand each other and share thoughts, even without speaking the same language.
To carry heat, sound, or electricity from one place to another.
In technical contexts, to transmit heat, sound, electricity, or similar through a medium.
To join rooms or places so people can go from one to another.
To provide a passage between rooms or places so that people can move between them.
- Base: communicate
- 3rd Person Singular: communicates
- Present Participle: communicating
- Past: communicated
communicate an idea
1express a thought clearly
To tell someone your thought in a way they understand.
- He communicated his idea during the meeting.
- It’s hard to communicate an idea without examples.
communicate clearly
1express information clearly
To say or write something so that it is easy for people to understand.
- Good leaders communicate clearly with their staff.
- He didn’t communicate clearly, so people misunderstood.
communicate with someone
1exchange information with a person
To share ideas, information, or feelings with another person.
- I try to communicate with my team every day.
- She communicates with her family by video calls.
communicate effectively
1share information successfully
To give information in a way that people understand well.
- Managers must communicate effectively with their staff.
- Teachers must learn how to communicate effectively.
- She communicates more effectively in writing than speaking.
- We need to communicate effectively during emergencies.