Communication

Noun

 * 1)  The concept or state of exchanging information between entities.
 * 2) The potential for information exchange.
 * 3) A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
 * 4) The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
 * 5) An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
 * 6) A passageway or opening between two locations.
 * 7)  A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.

Adjectives for Communication
efficient; sincere; graceful; rich; unique; swift; economical; rapid; easy; constant; continuous; belligerent; inarticulate; garrulous; profane; flimsy; crude; covert; sly; underhanded; world; visual; electrical; papal; aerial; interstate; telepathic; unrestricted; telltale; articulated; direct; anonymous; sympathetic; confidential; treacherous; depressing; convenient; unreserved; spiritual; slow-moving; pregnant; clandestine; evil; friendly; mercantile; unlimited; secure; radio; telegraphic; privileged; pretended; domestic; precarious.

Verbs for Communication
break—with; contrive—; cut off—; deliver—; draw—; establish—with; exchange—s; interfere with—; reestablish—; relay—; scatter—; set up—with; stimulate—; —conveys; —expresses; —imparts; —informs; —proceeds from; —purports to; —requests.

Thesaurus
information, inlet, instruction, intelligence, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, interlinking, interlocution, intersection, investiture, joinder, joining, jointure, junction, knotting, knowledge, lane, letter, liaison, liberality, light, line, linkage, linking, marriage, meeting, mention, merger, merging, message, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, missive, mutual transfer, note, notice, notification, offer, opening, osmosis, outlet, overpass, pairing, pass, passage, passageway, passing over, perfusion, pneumatogram, portico, presentation, presentment, promotional material, proof, provision, publication, publicity, railroad tunnel, rapping, release, reply, report, rescript, sidelight, social activity, social intercourse, social relations, splice, spread, spreading, statement, subscription, supplying, surrender, symbiosis, telegram, the dope, the goods, the know, the scoop, tie, tie-in, tie-up, traject, trajet, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transfusion, transit, transition, translation, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transplacement, transplantation, transposal, transposition, travel, tunnel, underpass, unification, union, verbal intercourse, vouchsafement, white book, white paper, word, yoking, access, accommodation, accordance, account, acknowledgment, acquaintance, advice, agglomeration, agglutination, aggregation, aisle, alley, ambulatory, announcement, answer, aperture, arcade, artery, articulation, avenue, award, awarding, bestowal, bestowment, billet, blue book, bond, bracketing, briefing, bulletin, business letter, channel, chit, cloister, clustering, collegiality, colloquial discourse, colloquy, colonnade, combination, commerce, communion, communique, community, concatenation, concession, concourse, concurrence, conduction, conduit, conferment, conferral, confluence, congeries, conglomeration, congress, conjugation, conjunction, connection, contagion, contribution, convection, convergence, conversation, converse, conversing, copulation, corridor, coupling, covered way, data, datum, defile, deliverance, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, directory, discourse, dispatch, dissemination, donation, embassy, endowment, enlightenment, epistle, evidence, exchange, exit, export, exportation, express, expulsion, extradition, facts, factual information, familiarization, favor, fellowship, ferry, ford, furnishment, gallery, gathering, gen, general information, gifting, give-and-take, giving, grant, granting, guidebook, handout, hard information, hookup, impartation, impartment, import, importation, incidental information, info,

Etymology
communicacion:, from communicationem:, accusative singular of communicatio:, from communico:.

Related terms

 * communications (the science and technology of communicating, especially by electronic means)
 * communicate
 * communicator

Derived terms

 * anticommunication
 * communication disorder
 * communication engineering
 * communications satellite
 * confidential communication


 * excommunication
 * miscommunication
 * noncommunication
 * privileged communication
 * telecommunication

Translations

 * Arabic: إتصالات
 * Bulgarian: общуване
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: kommunikation
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: (epikoinonía)
 * Greenlandic: attaveqaqatigiinneq


 * Hebrew: תקשורת
 * Hindi: संचार
 * Italian: comunicazione
 * Japanese:, コミュニケーション
 * Korean:,  커뮤니케이션
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: comunicare, comunicație,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: връзка, комуникация
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: קשר


 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: comunicação
 * Romanian: comunicație, legătură
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Hebrew:, הודעה
 * Hindi: सन्देश
 * Portuguese: comunicação, comunicado
 * Romanian: comunicare, veste, știre, mesaj
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 通訊設施, 通讯设施


 * German:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * German:


 * Hebrew:, הודעה
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:


 * German: Durchgang
 * Hebrew:
 * Portuguese: comunicação (1)


 * Romanian: comunicație
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:


 * German:
 * Portuguese: comunicação (1), conexão


 * Romanian: legătură
 * Swahili: