- transmit
- [[t]trænzmɪ̱t[/t]]
transmits, transmitting, transmitted1) VERB When radio and television programmes, computer data, or other electronic messages are transmitted, they are sent from one place to another, using wires, radio waves, or satellites.
[be V-ed] The game was transmitted live in Spain and Italy...
[be V-ed] The information is electronically transmitted to schools and colleges...
[V n] This is currently the most efficient way to transmit certain types of data like electronic mail...
[V to n] The device is not designed to transmit to satellites.
2) VERB If one person or animal transmits a disease to another, they have the disease and cause the other person or animal to have it. [FORMAL][V n to n] ...mosquitoes that transmit disease to humans...
[V n] There was no danger of transmitting the infection through operations.
[V-ed] ...the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
3) VERB If you transmit an idea or feeling to someone else, you make them understand and share the idea or feeling. [LITERARY][V n to n] The message they are transmitting to their daughters is very different from that of previous generations...
[V n to n] He transmitted his keen enjoyment of singing to the audience.
Syn:4) VERB If an object or substance transmits something such as sound or electrical signals, the sound or signals are able to pass through it.[V n] These thin crystals transmit much of the power...
[V-ed] There was no vibration transmitted to the handles and the machine wasn't noisy either.
English dictionary. 2008.