MEANING
1. To send or convey a signal, message, knowledge, or feeling to another person or place.
2. To pass an infection or disease-causing agent from one host to another.
3. To pass genetic material or inherited characteristics from parents to offspring.
Use it for
describing how knowledge passes between groups; distinguishing transmission from successful understanding; tracing the route of a message or signalDistinguishes communicated information, transmissible infection, inherited traits, and physical energy transfer. Writing functions: Causation / Relationships, Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- transmit a signal
- transmit knowledge
- transmit a message
On the page
The letters transmitted news long before the official account reached the town.
A signal can be transmitted accurately without its meaning being understood.
The article separates how an infection is transmitted from how severe it becomes.
Contact patterns may affect opportunities to transmit an infection without determining every individual outcome.
The chapter distinguishes traits transmitted through genes from practices learned within a household.
Word forms
- Base
- transmit
- Past tense
- transmitted
- Past participle
- transmitted
- Present participle
- transmitting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- transmit
- Present continuous
- am/is/are transmitting
- Present perfect
- have/has transmitted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been transmitting
- Past
- transmitted
- Past continuous
- was/were transmitting
- Past perfect
- had transmitted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been transmitting
- Future
- will transmit
- Future continuous
- will be transmitting
- Future perfect
- will have transmitted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been transmitting
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Transitive or intransitive as context allows: transmits, transmitted, transmitted, transmitting; future will transmit. Double t in transmitted and transmitting. Register: neutral. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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