IMPART

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impart mean? 

• IMPART (verb)
  The verb IMPART has 3 senses:

1. transmit (knowledge or skills)

2. bestow a quality on

3. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

  Familiarity information: IMPART used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPART (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they impart    ... he / she / it imparts   
Past simple: imparted   
Past participle: imparted   
-ing form: imparting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transmit (knowledge or skills)

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

give; impart; leave; pass on

Context example:

impart a new skill to the students

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

tell (let something be known)

Verb group:

bequeath; leave; will (leave or give by will after one's death)

give (convey or reveal information)

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

convey ((of information) make known; pass on)

Sentence frames:

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

Derivation:

impartation; imparting (the transmission of information)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bestow a quality on

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

add; bestow; bring; contribute; impart; lend

Context example:

This adds a light note to the program

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

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

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

factor (be a contributing factor)

instill; transfuse (impart gradually)

tinsel (impart a cheap brightness to)

throw in (add as an extra or as a gratuity)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

carry; channel; conduct; convey; impart; transmit

Context example:

Many metals conduct heat

Hypernyms (to "impart" 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 "impart"):

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

 Context examples 

“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)

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Elizabeth immediately recognizing the livery, guessed what it meant, and imparted no small degree of her surprise to her relations by acquainting them with the honour which she expected.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

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)

A group of three types of polymeric protein structures that impart shape to a cell and are involved in cellular motility, organelle localization and vesicular targeting.

(Cytoskeleton Filament, NCI Thesaurus)

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

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

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

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was thus imparted to her, as soon as any opportunity of private conference between them occurred.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The activities of educating or instructing or teaching; activities that impart knowledge or skill.

(Education, NCI Thesaurus)

An extension to a shaft designed to impart a rotational energy to the shaft.

(Crank Arm Assembly Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)