Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Transmittable between persons or species; contagious.
- adjective Readily communicated.
- adjective Talkative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being communicated.
- Communicative; ready to converse or impart information.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being communicated, or imparted.
- adjective obsolete Communicative; free-speaking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a disease Able to be
transmitted between people or species;contagious orcatching - adjective
talkative orexpansive - adjective
readily communicated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
- adjective readily communicated
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Examples
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Bob Barr believes that immigrants bring in communicable diseases.
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An infectious disease that is spread through contact with infected individuals; also called a communicable disease.
contagious disease 2002
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To recognize the necessity of a religion, the necessity of authority, and then to leave to subjects the right to deny religion, attack its worship, oppose the exercise of power by public expression communicable and communicated by thought, was an impossibility which the Catholics of the sixteenth century would not hear of.
Catherine De Medici Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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"They didn't want you covering up some kind of communicable skin condition," said Dale Pleimann, chair of the association's wrestling rules committee.
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Once somebody gets cholera or measles or any kind of communicable disease.
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Not only was the charge out the door in Fox debates demonstrating the absence of a firm commitment to the Constitution, but in the case of treating O'Reilly as some kind of communicable disease was politically stupid.
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Australia plays a leading role in advancing APEC's responses to human security issues such as communicable diseases, emergency disaster relief preparedness, counter-terrorism, climate change and energy security.
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Is there anything you can do when you're on a flight to just lower the risk of getting any kind of communicable disease?
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Is there anything you can do when you're on a flight to just lower the risk of getting any kind of communicable disease?
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You never know what kind of communicable diseases you might get running with a crowd like that.
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