share or exchange information, news, or ideas

the prisoner was forbidden to communicate with his family

pass on (an infectious disease) to another person or animal

the disease is communicated from one person to another

(of two rooms) have a common connecting door

the dining room communicates with the kitchen

he went into the communicating room to pick up the phone

receive Holy Communion

orthodox policy is to communicate in both kinds (i.e. both bread and wine)