English > telecommunicate: 1 sense > verb 1, communication| Meaning | Communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s |
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| Narrower | cable, telegraph, wire | Send cables, wires, or telegrams |
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| call, telephone, call up, phone, ring | Get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone |
| call | send a message or attempt to reach someone by radio, phone, etc. |
| e-mail, email, netmail | Communicate electronically on the computer |
| fax, telefax, facsimile | Send something via a facsimile machine |
| telex | Communicate by telex |
| Broader | communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across | transmit information |
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| Spanish | telecomunicar |
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| Nouns | telecommunication | (often plural) systems used in transmitting messages over a distance electronically |
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