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communicating

verbadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪ.tɪŋ//
  • United States//kəˈmju.nəˌkeɪ.tɪŋ//

Allowing people to pass directly between two rooms.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of communicatepresent participle and gerund of communicate

Etymology

From communicate + -ing.

adjective

  1. 1

    Allowing people to pass directly between two rooms.

    Our rooms are connected by a secret communicating passage.

    I put my grips against the communicating door last night.

    Step from this car into the last one of the triplet, the restaurant-bar, and the communicating doors will open before you touch them.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).