Dictionary entry details
• TRANSMIT (verb)
Meaning:
Transfer to another
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
transmit; communicate; convey
Context example:
communicate a disease
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
Meaning:
Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
channel; transmit; carry; conduct; convey
Context examples:
Sound carries well over water / The airwaves carry the sound / Many metals conduct heat
Hypernyms (to "transmit" is one way to...):
bring; convey; take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)
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
Meaning:
Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
broadcast; air; transmit; beam; send
Context example:
We cannot air this X-rated song
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
Meaning:
Send from one person or place to another
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
channel; channelise; channelize; transmit; transport; transfer
Context example:
transmit a message
Hypernyms (to "transmit" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transmit"):
send; send out (to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place)
release; turn (let (something) fall or spill a container)
translate (bring to a certain spiritual state)
propagate (transmit)
project (transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another)
bring; convey; fetch; get (go or come after and bring or take back)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
