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transmit

verbattested in dialogue

  • //tɹænsˈmɪt//
  • //tɹænzˈmɪt//

To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.

verb

  1. 1

    To send or convey from one person, place or thing to another.

  2. 2

    To spread or pass on (something such as a disease or a signal).

  3. 3

    To impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity.

  4. 4

    To communicate (news or information, especially electronically).

  5. 5

    To convey or conduct (energy or force) through a mechanism or medium.

    The tractive and braking forces are transmitted to the body through a downward projecting pivot pin in the normal way.

  6. 6

    To send out (a signal, as opposed to receive).

    A Mayday call was transmitted by the stricken vessel.

  7. 7

    To go out; to be sent, conveyed, spread, passed on, or communicated.

    The Mayday call transmitted successfully.

Etymology

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

Forms

past tense
transmitted
past participle
transmitted
present participle
transmitting
third person singular
transmits
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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).