communication plate(komunikashonplat)

In Polyzoa, one of the perforated partitions or incomplete septa between contiguous cells or zoœcia of the cœnæcium; a rosette-plate. communication-valve (ko-mu-ni-kashonvalv), n. A valve in the steam-pipe which connects the boiler with the cylinder of a steam engine. communicative (ko-muni-ka-tiv), a. [= F. com muni cat if = Pr. comunicatiu = Sp. It. comи nicativo = Pg. communicativo, benefits. The love God requires of us is an operative, material, and communicative love. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), Ι. 70. They deserve not the name of that communicative and noble profe ion [gardening). Evelyn , Calendarium Hortense. 2. Disposed to impart or disclose knowledge, facts, or opinions; free in communicating; not reserved; open; talkative. Mr. Boswell's frankne and gaiety made everybody com municative. Johnson, Jour. to Western Isles. 3. Disposed to communion with others. The Morning and Evening Order began, like the Brevi ary, with the Lord's Prayer: but the communicative spirit of the Reformation, where the ministry of the Church was concerned, was shown at once even in this point. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., xv. 4. Adapted or intended for communicating. It cannot be doubted that, in the first stages of com municative expre ion, all these three [gesture, grimace, utterance] were used together, each for the particular purposes which it was best calculated to serve. Whitney, Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 767. 5t. Capable of being communicated; commu nicable. That beauty was too communicative and divine a thing to be made a property, and confined to one at once. Shaftesbury , Characteristics (ed. 1732), p. 196. communicatively (ko-mü'ni-ka-tiv-li), adv . In a communicative manner; by communication. Milton . The manifestation of his glory shall arise to us; we shall have it communicatively . Good win, Works, III. iii. 115. communicativene (ko-mu'ni-ka-tiv-nes), n. The state or quality of being communicative; readine to impart to others; freedom from reserve; talkativene . I was courteously received by a worthy old house keeper, who, with the civility and communicativene of her order, showed me the interior of the house. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 334. communicator (ko-mū ́ni-kā-tor), n. [ communicator , com muni care , communicate: see communicate.] One who or that which communicates. Boyle.