Flashing lights transmit messages between ships and to motorists along city streets.
Source: tatoeba (22279)
Transmit
//tɹænsˈmɪt//
Synonyms for "transmit" (161 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
61 translations across 19 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- παραδίδωμι verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
Bulgarian
4 entries- излъчвам verb (to send out a signal)
- предавам verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- предавам verb (to communicate (news or information))
- предавам по наследство verb (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity)
Catalan
4 entries- transmetre verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- transmetre verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
- transmetre verb (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity)
- transmetre verb (to communicate (news or information))
Czech
3 entries- přenést verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- vysílat verb (to send out a signal)
- šířit verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
Danish
3 entries- sende verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- sende verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
- transmittere verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
Dutch
4 entries- doorgeven verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- doorgeven verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
- doorgeven verb (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity)
- doorgeven verb (to communicate (news or information))
Esperanto
2 entries- transdoni verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- transmeti verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
Estonian
1 entries- edasi andma verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
Finnish
4 entries- levittää verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
- lähettää verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- lähettää verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
- lähettää verb (to send out a signal)
Galician
1 entries- transmitir verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
German
1 entries- übermitteln verb (to communicate (news or information))
Greek
2 entries- μεταδίδω verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
- μεταδίδω verb (to send out a signal)
Irish
1 entries- iompair verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
Persian
4 entries- تراگسیلیدن verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- تراگسیلیدن verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
- تراگسیلیدن verb (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity)
- تراگسیلیدن verb (to communicate (news or information))
Romanian
3 entries- transmite verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- transmite verb (to communicate (news or information))
- transmite verb (to convey (energy or force))
Sindhi
2 entries- پارمُڪَڻُ verb (to convey (energy or force))
- پارمڪَڻُ verb (to send out a signal)
Spanish
4 entries- transmitir verb (to send or convey from someone, some place or something to another)
- transmitir verb (to spread or pass on, e.g. a disease or signal)
- transmitir verb (to impart, convey or hand down by inheritance or heredity)
- transmitir verb (to communicate (news or information))
Swedish
1 entries- sända verb (to send out a signal)
Walloon
1 entries- kissemer verb (to communicate (news or information))
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
We have to transmit our culture to the next generation.
Source: tatoeba (22931)
Wires transmit electricity.
Source: tatoeba (269864)
Music that doesn't transmit feelings, images, thoughts, or memories is just background noise.
Source: tatoeba (866495)
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