communicating
English
Etymology
From communicate + -ing.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kəˈmjuː.nɪ.keɪ.tɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kəˈmju.nəˌkeɪ.tɪŋ/
Verb
communicating
- present participle and gerund of communicate
Adjective
communicating (not comparable)
- Allowing people to pass directly between two rooms.
- Our rooms are connected by a secret communicating passage.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 35:
- I put my grips against the communicating door last night.
- 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express—the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
- Step from this car into the last one of the triplet, the restaurant-bar, and the communicating doors will open before you touch them.
Derived terms
- communicating artery
- communicating vessel