communicate with

communicate with (one)

1. To talk to one. Well, if you didn't communicate with him, how was he supposed to know what you needed?
2. To convey a message to and be understood by another person. Even though they've been married for years, they still sometimes have a hard time communicating with each other.
See also: communicate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

communicate with someone

 
1. Lit. to correspond or talk with a person. I have to communicate with Wally first. As soon as I have communicated with Fred, I can give you an answer.
2. Fig. to make oneself understood with a person. (Often used with a negative.) I just don't seem to communicate with Sam, no matter what I do. We just can't seem to communicate with each other.
See also: communicate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • communicate with (one)
  • communicate
  • communicate (something) to (someone)
  • communicate to
  • convey
  • convey (something)
  • convey (something) from (someone or something)
  • convey (something) from (someone or sth) to (someone or sth)
  • convey (something) to (someone or something)
  • be somebody's style
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In examining these findings, it appears that course effort is slightly to moderately related to four of the five students' motives to communicate with their instructors, but course workload is not related at all to students' motives to communicate with their instructors.
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As a busy physician, I know I find e-mail a convenient way to communicate with my patients about simple issues that don't require an office visit.
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That single client can then communicate with each vendor's SMI-S provider or proxy and return consistent data across mixed-vendor environments.
Next, communicate with your patients, residents and their family members.
But what they really needed was a structure that would enable any business application to communicate with any other business application.
Oprah invokes Black Speak to quickly convey that if the "truth" is to be known Michael and Janet Jackson have the means to communicate with each other around the globe if they so desire.
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to the Cornell Theory Center and the Kern High School District in Bakersfield, Calif., have evaluated and are adopting Microsoft Producer as a valuable new tool to cost-effectively communicate with, educate and train employees and customers.
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Public safety wireless interoperability refers to the ability of public safety officials to communicate with each other seamlessly in real time over their wireless communications network.
In their study at Stanford University, they documented that 46 percent of patients used email and of those 51 percent were interested in using it to communicate with the clinic.
Of more immediate concern is that the Mars Polar Lander, which will dig about a meter into Martian ice and dust near the south pole to look for evidence of recent climate changes, will have to rely on other means to communicate with Earth.
ISA slots communicate with your CPU at 8 MHz and PCI slots communicate with your CPU at 33 MHz.