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transmettre — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bequeath verb To leave property or money to someone through a will.
  • impart verb To pass on knowledge, advice, or a quality to someone.
  • relay verb To pass on information received from one person or source to another.
  • transmit verb To send or pass something from one person, place, or thing to another.
  • travel verb To go from one place to another, often over a distance.

Senses

transmettre is used for these senses in English:

  • bequeath (legal) To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
  • bequeath To hand down; to transmit.
  • hand down To transmit in succession, as from father to son, or from predecessor to successor.
  • hand over (transitive, idiomatic) To relinquish control or possession of something to someone.
  • impart (transitive) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
  • pass down (transitive) To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, next generation, etc.
  • pass on (transitive) To convey or communicate.
  • transceive (of a communications device) To both transmit and receive

bequeath — full definition

  1. verb To leave property or money to someone through a will.
  2. verb To pass something down, such as a tradition, idea, or quality.

impart — full definition

  1. verb To pass on knowledge, advice, or a quality to someone.
  2. verb To make something known.

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