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be communicable
adjective
Able to be transmitted between people or species; contagious or catching
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"Now there could be communicable illnesses, diarrhoea, flu and so forth.
The earliest recognition that diseases might be communicable led to extreme measures designed to isolate infected persons or communities.
He even speculated on a universal language called "Pointish", which might be communicable to the most anthropologically remote tribesman or to the putative Martian just landed.
The other girls — victims of yesteryear's mass hysteria and today's mass psychogenic illness, in which the symptoms of hysteria pass from person to person, like contagion — believed the condition to be communicable and "caught" it.
The external agent may be itself a living organism capable of multiplying within the host and subsequently infecting other organisms; in this case the disease is said to be communicable.
She believes that every product should have something unique, something that sets it apart in the marketplace, and that this quality should be communicable in a clear and easy-to-grasp message: PomWonderful has more antioxidants than any other fruit juice; Fiji Water comes from a deep aquifer in a pristine climate; Teleflora flowers arrive in a keepsake gift.
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In this way, I was offered for the first time an experience that was communicable.
Ms. Goerke carried Schumann's finale almost single-handed; the pleasure she takes in the act of singing is communicable.
This article was amended on 1 January 2013, rewording a previously ambiguous sentence that could have been taken to imply that rickets and scurvy were communicable diseases.
In fact, rates of the disease — most often a lung infection that is communicable from person to person — had greatly accelerated in several American cities.
Mr. Frenn's art is communicable -- even if the message is that it's a mystery -- in large part because he uses a set of symbols that are obvious.
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