单词 | intercommunication |
释义 | intercommunicationn. 1. The action or fact of communicating with each other; intercourse. ΘΚΠ society > communication > [noun] communication?1532 intercommunication1586 correspondence1605 correspondency1613 conveyance1662 society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] conversationc1340 dolea1400 repairc1425 fellowshipc1450 frequentation?1520 communion1529 society1531 commerce1537 commercement1537 society1538 trade1555 intercourse1557 company1576 intercommunication1586 interdeal1591 entertain1602 consort1607 entregent1607 quarter1608 commercing1610 converse1610 trucka1625 congress1628 socialty1638 frequency1642 socialitya1649 socialness1727 intercommuniona1761 social life1812 dialogue1890 discourse1963 1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xii. 57 These haue ech of them, but one quality: fire hote, ayer moist..if they should haue twayne, then must they needes either entercommunicate, or two quallities concurre with the first matter: entercommunication is there none: for then should they not be the elements of other things seing they should be elements one of ech other. 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 149 When you and I had more leisure for an inter-communication, of which I have..made profitable use. 1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. ii. iii. 362 Those causes which tended to bring about increased Hellenic intercommunication. 2. The mutual imparting of ideas or information; interchange of speech; mutual conference. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] speechc900 talec1000 speaka1300 reasonc1300 speakinga1325 counsela1350 intercommuningc1374 dalliancec1400 communication1419 communancec1449 collocutiona1464 parlour?c1475 sermocination1514 commona1529 dialogue?1533 interlocutiona1534 discourse1545 discoursing1550 conference1565 purposea1572 talk1572 interspeech1579 conversationa1586 devising1586 intercourse1596 intercommunication1603 eclogue1604 commercing1610 communion1614 negocea1617 alloquy1623 confariation1652 gob1681 gab1761 commune1814 colloquy1817 conversing1884 cross-talk1887 bull session1920 rap1957 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 261 Even in beasts, that have no voice at all,..we easily inferre, there is some other meane of entercommunication. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 255 A brief question, and a monosyllable in reply, was their only intercommunication. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man I. ii. 58 Ants have considerable powers of intercommunication by means of their antennæ. 3. Passage to and fro by connecting channels or lines of communication. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > contiguity > communicating (of things) incurse1578 intercourse1626 commerce1634 correspondence1698 intercommunication1866 the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > conveying by a channel or medium > by interconnecting channels intercommunication1866 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [noun] > uninterrupted connection of parts > intercommunication intercourse1626 commerce1634 correspondence1698 intercommunication1866 1866 R. Owen On Anat. Vertebr. I. vii. 510 The free intercommunication between the basal spaces into which the auricles open. 4. attributive. Cf. intercom n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > intercom > [noun] intercommunication1911 intercom1940 interphone1942 1911 M. Hird in L. Weaver House & its Equipm. 124 With an ‘intercommunication’ system of telephones in the house, room after room can be..easily ‘rung up’. 1967 Lebende Sprachen 12 137/1 Intercommunication system (intercom), a system of wiring which enables two-way communication between teacher and student(s). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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