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TRANSMIT

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Irregular inflected forms: transmitted    , transmitting   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

Example:

We cannot air this X-rated song

Synonyms:

air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "transmit" is one way to...):

air; bare; publicise; publicize (make public)

Cause:

air (be broadcast)

Domain category:

broadcast medium; broadcasting (a medium that disseminates via telecommunications)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transmit"):

satellite (broadcast or disseminate via satellite)

sportscast (broadcast a sports event)

telecast; televise (broadcast via television)

interrogate (transmit (a signal) for setting off an appropriate response, as in telecommunication)

rebroadcast; rerun (broadcast again, as of a film)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

transmitter (set used to broadcast radio or tv signals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Send from one person or place to another

Example:

transmit a message

Synonyms:

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "transmit" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transmit"):

bring; convey; fetch; get (go or come after and bring or take back)

project (transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another)

propagate (transmit)

translate (bring to a certain spiritual state)

release; turn (let (something) fall or spill from a container)

send; send out (to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

transmission; transmittal (the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted)

transmitter (someone who transmits a message)

transmitting (the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

Example:

Many metals conduct heat

Synonyms:

carry; channel; conduct; convey; impart; transmit

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "transmit" is one way to...):

bring; convey; take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)

Verb group:

carry; convey; express (serve as a means for expressing something)

carry (be conveyed over a certain distance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transmit"):

wash up (carry somewhere (of water or current or waves))

pipe in (bring in through pipes)

bring in (transmit)

retransmit (transmit again)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

transmittal (the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Transfer to another

Example:

communicate a disease

Synonyms:

communicate; convey; transmit

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "transmit" is one way to...):

transfer (move from one place to another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transmit"):

communicate; pass; pass along; pass on; put across (transmit information)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence examples:

They transmit them the information

They transmit the information to them

Derivation:

transmissible ((of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection)

transmissible (occurring among members of a family usually by heredity)

transmission (an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted)

transmitter (any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease)

Credits

 Context examples: 

This is the amount of time it takes for neurons to transmit information from the inferior frontal junction to the FFA or PPA.

(How the brain pays attention to faces and places, NIH)

The signal is then transmitted to Pyk2 and to the small G protein Rac1 but not Cdc42.

(Angiotensin II Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite, which is transmitted to people through mosquitoes.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

The Kellynch estate should be transmitted whole and entire, as he had received it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The fraction of beam intensity being lost per unit length of the transmitting material in a chosen x direction.

(Attenuation Coefficient, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-taxonomic grouping of viruses that are transmitted through an arthropod vector and replicate in a vertebrate host.

(Arbovirus, NCI Thesaurus)

A device designed to transmit or receive electromagnetic signals.

(Antenna Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

The quantity of 260nm light that is not transmitted through a substance or solution.

(Absorbance at 260nm, NCI Thesaurus)

The quantity of 280nm light that is not transmitted through a substance or solution.

(Absorbance at 280nm, NCI Thesaurus)

Turtles, snakes and iguanas can transmit Salmonella bacteria to their owners.

(Animal Diseases and Your Health, NIH)