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# communicate

«communicate» in Mova's school dictionary: **to share ideas, feelings or information with others by…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (communicate, communicates, communicated, communicating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To communicate means to share ideas, feelings or information with others by talking, writing, signs or gestures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#m1)

2) To communicate can mean to understand each other well: «They communicate well.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#m2)

3) (of rooms) Communicating rooms are joined by a door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In English and science lessons communication can be spoken, written, by sign language or by animals' signals. In maths you «communicate your reasoning» by explaining steps. Phrases: «communicate with», «communicate by», «communicate clearly».

### examples

- Dolphins communicate with clicks and whistles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#x1)
- We communicate with Gran by video call. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#x2)
- Deaf people may communicate using sign language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#x3)
- Explain your answer to communicate your thinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#x4)
- The team must communicate to win. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#x5)
- Bees communicate by dancing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#x6)
- I should be obliged if the sender would communicate with me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/#x7)

### note

Regular verb. Noun: communication. Spelling: double m — com-mu-ni-cate. «Communicate with someone», not «communicate someone».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «communicate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/communicate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.