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communicator|kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtə(r)|
Also 7 -our.
[a. L. commūnicātor, agent-n. f. commūnicāre to communicate: see -or.]
One who or that which communicates.
1. In general sense.
1662H. More Def. Threefold Cabbala iv. 115 The first communicatour of which Mystery. 1852J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. LXXII. 149 The Poem represents..God as the willing infinite Communicator of Good. 1859Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XX. i. 176 The rope..is a mere intermediate communicator of power to the distant machine. 1875Whitney Life Lang. xiv. 283 To impress the personality of the communicator upon the recipient.
2. spec. An apparatus for communicating; esp.
a. that part of a telegraph instrument used in sending messages;
b. a contrivance for communicating with the guard or driver of a railway train.
c1865J. Wylde in Circ. Sc. I. 274/1 The words..sent by the communicator are spelt, letter by letter, on the indicator. 1872Daily News 30 July, Parliament imposed a penalty on the misuse of the communicator [in a railway train]. |