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# transmit

«transmit» in Mova's school dictionary: **To send out radio, TV or electronic signals** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (transmit, transmits, transmitted, transmitting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To send out radio, TV or electronic signals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#m1)

2) To pass something, like a disease, from one person or thing to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#m2)

3) To let light, heat, sound or electricity pass through: Glass transmits light. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, materials that transmit light are transparent; metals transmit electricity and heat well. In health lessons, some illnesses are transmitted by coughs or bites. In technology, phones and radios transmit signals as waves.

### examples

- The station transmits news every hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#x1)
- Mosquitoes can transmit malaria. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#x2)
- Glass transmits light, but wood does not. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#x3)
- Copper wire transmits electricity well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#x4)
- The rover transmitted pictures from Mars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#x5)
- Covering your mouth when you cough helps stop germs being transmitted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/transmit/#x6)

### note

Doubles the t: transmitted, transmitting (stress on -MIT). Noun: transmission; a device: transmitter. Opposite actions: receive (signals), block (light).

### Trees and pragmatics

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