{
    "term": "communicate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "communicate",
            "heSheIt": "communicates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "communicated",
        "pastParticiple": "communicated",
        "ingForm": "communicating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to share or exchange information, news, ideas, feelings, etc.",
            "sensetop": "communicate with somebody/somethingcommunicate somethingcommunicate something to somebodycommunicate how/what, etc…",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We only communicate by email."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They communicated in sign language."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Candidates must be able to communicate effectively."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Dolphins use sound to **communicate with each other**.",
                    "contextForm": "communicate with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Direct marketing allows a firm to communicate directly with its customers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In times of uncertainty, a leader must be able to **communicate a message** of hope.",
                    "contextForm": "communicate something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Language evolved as a means of communicating information between individuals."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was eager to communicate his ideas to the group.",
                    "contextForm": "communicate something to somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her nervousness was communicating itself to the children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They failed to communicate what was happening and why.",
                    "contextForm": "communicate how/what, etc…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "By this age most children have begun to communicate verbally."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Newspapers are an important way of communicating information."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She is unable to communicate her ideas to other people."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We communicated through an interpreter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We usually communicate by letter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nobody had communicated the information to us."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["clearly", "effectively", "successfully"],
                "preposition": ["by", "through", "to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to have a good relationship because you are able to understand and talk about your own and other people’s thoughts, feelings, etc.",
            "sensetop": "communicate with somebody",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "His inability to communicate has damaged their relationship beyond repair."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The novel is about a family who can't communicate with each other.",
                    "contextForm": "communicate with somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "couples who communicate well with one another"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to pass a disease from one person, animal, etc. to another",
            "sensetop": "communicate something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The disease is communicated through dirty drinking water."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "if two rooms communicate, they are next to each other and you can get from one to the other",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **communicating door** *(= one that connects two rooms)*"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/",
                "audio": "co/communicate/communicate__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪts/",
                "audio": "co/communicate/communicates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "co/communicate/communicated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/communicate/communicating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/",
                "audio": "co/communicate/communicate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪts/",
                "audio": "co/communicate/communicates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "co/communicate/communicated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/communicate/communicating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "early 16th cent.: from Latin communicat- ‘shared’, from the verb communicare ‘to share’, from communis ‘common’."
}