transmittrans‧mit /trænzˈmɪt $ træns-/ ●○○ AWL verb (past tense and past participle transmitted, present participle transmitting) 
The US Open will be transmitted live via satellite. The system transmits information over digital phone lines.2[transitive] formal to send or pass something from one person, place or thing to another SYN passtransmit something (from somebody/something) to somebody/something Mathematical knowledge is transmitted from teacher to student. → sexually transmitted disease3[transitive] technical if an object or substance transmits sound or light, it allows sound or light to travel through or along it
WORD ORIGINtransmit
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin transmittere, from mittere ‘to send’VERB TABLE
transmit
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | transmit |
| he, she, it | transmits | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | transmitted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have transmitted |
| he, she, it | has transmitted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had transmitted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will transmit |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have transmitted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am transmitting |
| he, she, it | is transmitting | |
| you, we, they | are transmitting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was transmitting |
| you, we, they | were transmitting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been transmitting |
| he, she, it | has been transmitting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been transmitting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be transmitting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been transmitting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Cultural values are transmitted from parent to child.
- Malaria is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.
- The U.S. Open will be transmitted live via satellite.
- Furthermore, there were many differences of opinion regarding the question of just how contagious leprosy was and how it was transmitted.
- Some aspects of this immediacy can also be transmitted by our contacts with non-human organisms whose lifespan far exceeds our own.
- The highest speed at which a stress can be transmitted through any substance is usually the speed of sound in that substance.
- The new rate would be about 1 megabit per second, enough to transmit a small novel in a blink.
- The traffic of ions into and out of neurons underlies their capacity to generate and transmit electrical signals.
- This attitude becomes part of their subculture and is transmitted from generation to generation.
- To combat this new breed of criminal, all computerised data on individuals should be transmitted in code, says the commission.
- Video transmitted from the ground will be displayed on laptop computers aboard the shuttle.
WORD SETS
aerial, nounairtime, nounAM, nounantenna, nounatmospherics, nounaudio, adjectiveband, nounBBC, the, beacon, nounbeam, verbBeeb, the, bleep, verbboom, nounboom box, nounBritish Broadcasting Corporation, nounbroadband, nounbroadcast, nounbroadcast, verbcable television, CB, nounCCTV, nounCeefax, nounchannel, nounclosed circuit television, nouncommunications satellite, nouncontrast, noundial, nounDJ, nounexposure, nounflash, verbFM, nounfrequency, nounham, nounHz, interference, nounjam, verbkHz, kilohertz, nounlinkup, nounlive, adjectivelocal radio, nounlong wave, nounloudspeaker, nounLW, mast, nounmedium wave, nounmegahertz, nounMHz, modulate, verbmonitor, nounmono, nounmono, adjectiveNBC, nounnetwork, nounnetwork, verbon-air, adjectiveover, prepositionpresenter, nounprogramming, nounquadraphonic, adjectiveradio, nounradio, verbreceive, verbreceiver, nounreception, nounrepeat, verbrepeat, nounrerun, nounrerun, verbroger, interjectionsatellite, nounsatellite dish, nounsatellite television, nounsaturation, nounscrambler, nounseries, nounset, nounshipping forecast, nounship-to-shore, adjectiveshort wave, nounsignal, nounsignature tune, nounsimulcast, verbSOS, nounsound, nounsound bite, nounsound check, nounstatic, nountelecast, nounTeletext, nountelevise, verbtelevision, nountelevision licence, nountelly, nountime signal, nountrack, verbtransistor, nountransistor radio, nountransmission, nountransmit, verbtransmitter, nountune, verbtuner, nountweeter, nountwo-way, adjectiveUHF, noununscramble, verbveejay, nounvideo, nounvideo, adjectivevideo jockey, nounvolume, nounwaveband, nounwavelength, nounwhite noise, nounwireless, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The US Open will be transmitted live via satellite.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The US Open will be transmitted live via satellite. (=that is spread by having sex)· There was a worrying rise in the number of sexually-transmitted diseases.
· The signals are transmitted via satellites.
(=pass it from one person or animal to another)· The rabies virus is transmitted in saliva when one animal bites another.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Besides, early starters are more likely to have many partners, and so are at greater risk from sexually transmitted diseases.· And when it does, protect yourself and your partner from all sexually transmitted diseases.· Use of this drug does not protect against sexually transmitted disease.· When she asked him if he had a sexually transmitted disease, he said no.· They first thought it was a sexually transmitted disease, so males and females were kept separate.· It is contagious in the same way that sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, are contagious.· The parasites that were spread in this way had never before been considered sexually transmitted.· This can happen with sexually transmitted diseases only if the average infected person infects more than one other person.
NOUN· The uneducated woman transmits to her children the same doomed life.· How do schools transmit value judgements about children who succeed and those who do not?
· To combat this new breed of criminal, all computerised data on individuals should be transmitted in code, says the commission.· If history is any guide, the power to transmit crack-proof codes could alter the fates of civilizations.· At busy crossroads throughout the city, the company has rigged up poles which transmit a continuous location code.· According to industry officials, a new breed of digital phone transmits in computer code that is much more difficult to intercept.
· The coordinates are then transmitted to the host computer.· But it is the cameras whose pictures are transmitted via computer that are changing response time.· Radiation readings are taken every hour at each station and are transmitted to a central computer which analyses the data.· According to industry officials, a new breed of digital phone transmits in computer code that is much more difficult to intercept.· It can be used to transmit computer data to and from sites where conventional lines are not available.· The data is transmitted to a computer inside a trailer that in turn measures the carbon monoxide in the exhaust.
· Ordinary analogue telephone lines used for voice communication have a low band width and can not transmit much data per second.· This eliminated the need for costly lines that transmitted power or data.· It also may be able to transmit stored data that was taken just as it landed.· Computer networks transmit data at various speeds to meet the needs of many different user communities throughout the world.· The system transmits data in standard data packets of 80 characters.· Traditionally, computer networks transmitted data at relatively low speeds measured primarily in kilobits per second.· It can be used to transmit computer data to and from sites where conventional lines are not available.· Local-area networks transmitting data at speeds of between 10 megabits per second and 100 megabits per second also exist.
· Recently I treated her for a sexually transmitted disease with metronidazole, which is known to cause foetal abnormalities in rats.· They first thought it was a sexually transmitted disease, so males and females were kept separate.· And the third is to treat other sexually transmitted diseases.· It is contagious in the same way that sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, are contagious.· Besides, early starters are more likely to have many partners, and so are at greater risk from sexually transmitted diseases.· This can happen with sexually transmitted diseases only if the average infected person infects more than one other person.· Use of this drug does not protect against sexually transmitted disease.
· This attitude becomes part of their subculture and is transmitted from generation to generation.· There are, however, other more important processes working: beliefs get transmitted downwards from one generation to the next.· Thus is instinct transmitted across the generations.· From their perspective, schools are repositories of the authentic national culture which they transmit between generations.· He proposed a theory in which the germ plasm was totally isolated from the adult body that transmits it to future generations.· They know the formulae, they have been transmitted from generation to generation down the years.· Furthermore, each adaptation is supposedly transmitted from one generation to the next by genetic means alone.· These are learned patterns of behaviour that are transmitted from one generation to another.
· This is not to say that such a person can not transmit infection.
· The value of the use of language to transmit information is well embedded in our cultural mythology.· These devices process and transmit information to and from many Sources over great distances at the speed of light.· The function of nerve fibres is to transmit coded information from one place to the other.· The private key, used to encrypt transmitted information by the user, is kept secret.· People could send telegrams, telephone each other, and transmit information much more quickly than ever before.· The fiber is useless unless it connects customers to equipment that transmits or stores information or video programs.· Once the carrier provides confirmation, the carrier transmits the relevant information to the new holder.· A sender transmits information through a communication channel to a receiver.
· Using a variety of communicative skills to transmit knowledge, understanding and feelings.
· He turned to meet Blanche's steady gaze, wondering whether the murdered woman wished to transmit a message through the scene.· The communicator chooses what message to transmit and how the message will be shaped.· An influential strand in the economic analysis of law seeks to transmit a particular message.· Edison was at the fair with his quadruplex telegraph, which transmitted several messages at once.· As humans we can transmit messages to each other by speaking, writing, morse code, semaphore and smoke signals.· These signaling molecules are called neurotransmitters because they transmit messages between neurons.· There is every reason to believe that nerve fibres can also transmit messages from cell to cell with different codes.· Vidalin was among many who transmitted coded messages to the Resistance.
· Shelton's photograph was fed into the network and transmitted to a scanning device.· The network also transmits legislative hearings statewide.· Computer networks transmit data at various speeds to meet the needs of many different user communities throughout the world.· Traditionally, computer networks transmitted data at relatively low speeds measured primarily in kilobits per second.· Local-area networks transmitting data at speeds of between 10 megabits per second and 100 megabits per second also exist.· Most of these networks transmit data at relatively low speeds of 192 kilobits per second or less.
· The organism is transmitted from person to person in airborne droplets.· We are extremely fortunate that such a devastating virus is so difficult to effectively transmit from person to person.
· This eliminated the need for costly lines that transmitted power or data.· Soon universal time signals will be transmitted through all power and telephone lines.· E can be forced to transmit this power to California customers.
· Once there it dutifully started transmitting its radio signals.· Antenna Hungaria, which transmits radio and television programs, is also on the block again.· The data is transmitted to nearby radio receivers, letting a doctor follow you around, sort of.
· It would be transmitted on the Astra satellite used by BSkyB.· Their video will be transmitted by satellite to each of the schools taking part.
· He flipped the radio switches on again and transmitted his call signal to the base at Alma-Ata.· They continuously transmit coded signals and time data that receivers use to compute latitude and longitude.· Filter synthesis 12.1 Introduction An ideal filter would perfectly transmit signals at all desired frequencies and completely reject them at all other frequencies.· The traffic of ions into and out of neurons underlies their capacity to generate and transmit electrical signals.· It transmits a signal of continuous dashes in morse.· A laser transmitted faint light signals to an electronic detector.· It transmits a signal of continuous dots and dashes and activates an Amer light, flashing the same signal.
· The Ariadne has a radio system that can transmit to, and receive transmissions from, any quarter of the globe.· The digital system is then transmitted along the channel of communication to the distant end.· The system transmits data in standard data packets of 80 characters.· Band B is intended for systems which transmit continuously.
· How do schools transmit value judgements about children who succeed and those who do not?
· But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet, for instance.· But the bear might have transmitted the rabies virus.· Perhaps I have an asymptomatic case and transmitted the virus to him.· People who know they are positive will not willfully transmit the virus.
VERB· He doesn't like using hotel switchboards to transmit orders.· The company would be interested in forming alliances to allow television companies use its lines to transmit information.· It can be used to transmit computer data to and from sites where conventional lines are not available.
WORD FAMILYnountransmissiontransmitterverbtransmit
1[intransitive, transitive usually + adverb/preposition] to send out electronic signals, messages etc using radio, television, or other similar equipment: The US Open will be transmitted live via satellite. The system transmits information over digital phone lines.2[transitive] formal to send or pass something from one person, place or thing to another SYN passtransmit something (from somebody/something) to somebody/something Mathematical knowledge is transmitted from teacher to student. → sexually transmitted disease3[transitive] technical if an object or substance transmits sound or light, it allows sound or light to travel through or along it