transmit

Academic Word List, sublist 7.

About 5.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   A Mayday call was transmitted by the stricken vessel.

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

   The Mayday call transmitted successfully.

Similar words

send communicate convey conduct transfer transport broadcast carry beam channelize

Often followed by

the to a it and information data their them

Word family

transmission transmissions transmits transmittable transmittal transmittals transmitted transmitting