transmit

Meaning

1. (transitive) To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.
2. (transitive) To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).
3. (transitive) To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.
4. (intransitive, transitive) To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).
5. (transitive) To convey or conduct (energy or force) through a mechanism or medium.
6. (intransitive, transitive) To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive).
7. (intransitive) To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or communicated.

Synonyms

convey

send

transfer

broadcast

communicate

inform

forward

conduct

dispatch

remit

propagate

impart

transport

relay

carry

pass on

air

channel

deliver

lead

infect

hand down

channelise

beam

channelize

submit

move

pass

take

pass along

send out

radio

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despatch

adjust

turn over

resign oneself to

give

put on the air

sell

assign

entrust

pipe

mail

dispose of

be on the air

guide

hand over

diffuse

devolve

chair

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Translations

transmettre

trasmettere

übertragen

senden

transmitir

μεταδίδω

transmitir

doorgeven

opsturen

sturen

doen toekomen

enviar

envoyer

adresser

mandare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹænsˈmɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: transmitten

In summary

From Middle English transmitten, borrowed from Latin trānsmittō (“transmit”, verb, literally “across-send”).