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Liaise vs. Communicate — What's the Difference?

Liaise vs. Communicate — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Liaise and Communicate

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Liaise

To effect or establish a liaison.

Communicate

To convey information about; make known; impart
Communicated his views to our office.

Liaise

To act or serve as a liaison officer.

Communicate

To reveal clearly; manifest
Her disapproval communicated itself in her frown.

Liaise

To establish a liaison.
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Communicate

To spread (a disease, for example) to others; transmit
A carrier who communicated typhus.

Liaise

To act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.

Communicate

To have an interchange, as of ideas.

Liaise

To cooperate, consult and discuss in order to come to a common solution.

Communicate

To express oneself in such a way that one is readily and clearly understood
"That ability to communicate was strange in a man given to long, awkward silences" (Anthony Lewis).

Liaise

To form or maintain a liaison{3}.

Communicate

(Ecclesiastical) To receive Communion.

Liaise

To act as a liaison{4}.

Communicate

To be connected, one with another
Apartments that communicate.

Liaise

Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences;
He interceded in the family dispute
He mediated a settlement

Communicate

To impart

Communicate

(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
It is vital that I communicate this information to you.

Communicate

(transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
To communicate motion by means of a crank

Communicate

(transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.

Communicate

To share

Communicate

To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.

Communicate

To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.

Communicate

To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).

Communicate

(intransitive) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.

Communicate

(intransitive) To be connected with (another room, vessel etc.) by means of an opening or channel.
The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.

Communicate

To share in common; to participate in.
To thousands that communicate our loss.

Communicate

To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.

Communicate

To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

Communicate

To administer the communion to.
She [the church] . . . may communicate him.
He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby.

Communicate

To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
Ye did communicate with my affliction.

Communicate

To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
To do good and to communicate forget not.

Communicate

To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.
Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic.
The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another.

Communicate

To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
The primitive Christians communicated every day.

Communicate

Transmit information ;
Please communicate this message to all employees

Communicate

Transmit thoughts or feelings;
He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist

Communicate

Transfer to another;
Communicate a disease

Communicate

Join or connect;
The rooms communicated

Communicate

Be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas;
He and his sons haven't communicated for years
Do you communicate well with your advisor?

Communicate

Administer communion; in church

Communicate

Receive Communion, in the Catholic church

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