IMPARTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imparting mean? 

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

1. the transmission of information

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPARTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The transmission of information

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

conveyance; impartation; imparting

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

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

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

giving (the imparting of news or promises etc.)

Derivation:

impart (transmit (knowledge or skills))

 Context examples 

Here, I thought, is one of those whose joy-imparting smiles are bestowed on all but me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You need the skilled teachers, the specialists in the art of imparting knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A class of intermediate filaments that form a network within epithelial cells and anchor to desmosomes, thus imparting tensile strength to the tissue

(Keratin Filament, NCI Thesaurus)

"Give me your confidence, Jane," he said: "relieve your mind of any weight that oppresses it, by imparting it to me. What do you fear?—that I shall not prove a good husband?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Trotwood,” said Mr. Dick, with an air of mystery, after imparting this confidence to me, one Wednesday; “who's the man that hides near our house and frightens her?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were creatures of mastery, possessing all manner of unknown and impossible potencies, overlords of the alive and the not alive—making obey that which moved, imparting movement to that which did not move, and making life, sun-coloured and biting life, to grow out of dead moss and wood.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When at last his ruffled feelings were at ease, he addressed us at some length from his seat upon a fallen tree, speaking, as his habit was, as if he were imparting most precious information to a class of a thousand.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The happiness she was imparting, too, happiness very little alloyed by the black communication which must briefly precede it—the joyful consent of her father and mother to Susan's going with her—the general satisfaction with which the going of both seemed regarded, and the ecstasy of Susan herself, was all serving to support her spirits.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Gosvami tells that much more work needs to be done to prove that the new method is superior to widely accepted methods of imparting corrosion resistance to steel such as galvanising with zinc or coating with conventionally used epoxy-based paints.

(Mango leaf extract can stop ships from rusting, SciDev.Net)

With this, she tilted some of the contents of the little bottle on to one of the little bits of flannel, and, again imparting some of the virtues of that preparation to one of the little brushes, began rubbing and scraping away with both on the crown of Steerforth's head in the busiest manner I ever witnessed, talking all the time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)