TRANSMIT (transmitted, transmitting)

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Irregular inflected forms: transmitted    , transmitting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does transmit mean? 

• TRANSMIT (verb)
  The verb TRANSMIT has 4 senses:

1. transfer to another

2. transmit or serve as the medium for transmission

3. broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

4. send from one person or place to another

  Familiarity information: TRANSMIT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSMIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they transmit    ... he / she / it transmits   
Past simple: transmitted   
Past participle: transmitted   
-ing form: transmitting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Transfer to another

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

communicate; convey; transmit

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

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)

Sense 2

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 "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 3

Meaning:

Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

air; beam; broadcast; send; transmit

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

Derivation:

transmission (communication by means of transmitted signals)

transmitter (set used to broadcast radio or tv signals)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Send from one person or place to another

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport

Context example:

transmit a message

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)

 Context examples 

One of the neural pathways that transmit impulses from the eyes to the cerebral cortex.

(Anterior Visual Pathway, NCI Thesaurus)

The bacterium itself also suppresses the mosquitoes’ ability to transmit a virus.

(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)

The condition is always transmitted through autosomal dominant inheritance.

(Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 2A, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A usually short communication transmitted by words, signals, or other means from one person, station, or group to another.

(Message, NCI Thesaurus)

It is transmitted to humans from a scratch, bite, or lick from a cat.

(Cat-Scratch Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

The data is transmitted wirelessly for analysis.

(Diagnosing cystic fibrosis with wearable devices, NIH)

On the other hand, p75NTR transmits both positive and negative signals.

(Neurotrophin Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Your ability to transmit ideas has never been better.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A technique that utilizes light waves to exert minute forces as well as transmit energy to isolate and manipulate nanoparticles.

(Optical Tweezers, NCI Thesaurus)

They transmit several serious diseases including malaria, one of the most common infectious diseases in the world.

(How mosquitoes detect people, NIH)