COMMUNICATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does communicating mean? 

• COMMUNICATING (noun)
  The noun COMMUNICATING has 1 sense:

1. the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information

  Familiarity information: COMMUNICATING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUNICATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

communicating; communication

Context example:

they could not act without official communication from Moscow

Hypernyms ("communicating" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "communicating"):

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

intercommunication (mutual communication; communication with each other)

medium (an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication)

channel; communication channel; line ((often plural) a means of communication or access)

mail; mail service; post; postal service (the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office)

dramatic art; dramatics; dramaturgy; theater; theatre (the art of writing and producing plays)

discourse; discussion; treatment (an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic)

exhortation (a communication intended to urge or persuade the recipients to take some action)

expression; verbal expression; verbalism (the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions)

exam; examination; test (a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge)

persuasion; suasion (the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action)

dissuasion (persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action)

expostulation; objection; remonstrance; remonstration (the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest)

contact; touch (a communicative interaction)

traffic (the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time)

Derivation:

communicate (transmit thoughts or feelings)

communicate (transmit information)

communicate (be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas)

 Context examples 

A small pocket, vesicle, cave, or recess communicating with the outside of a cell and extending inward, indenting the cytoplasm and the cell membrane.

(Caveola, NCI Thesaurus)

The team was also surprised to find that the ripples in the association neocortex and hippocampus occurred at the same time, suggesting the two regions were communicating as the rats slept.

(Study shows how memories ripple through the brain, National Institutes of Health)

Use your own discretion, however, in communicating to her what I have told you.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

All this led me into some serious reflections, and presented our mistakes in a new aspect; as I could not help communicating to Dora one evening, in spite of my tenderness for her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Abnormal passage communicating with the intestines.

(Intestinal Fistula, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds, symbols, or gestures.

(Language, NCI Thesaurus)

Without previously communicating with me, he had, in concert with Elizabeth, arranged that Clerval should join me at Strasburgh.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Fractures in which there is an external wound communicating with the break of the bone.

(Open Fracture, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

One of the paired paranasal sinuses, located in the body of the maxilla, communicating with the middle meatus of the nasal cavity.

(Maxillary sinus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

I have been too abrupt in communicating the news; it has excited you beyond your strength.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)