communicating

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English

Etymology

From communicate +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

Verb

communicating

  1. present participle and gerund of communicate

Adjective

communicating (not comparable)

  1. Allowing people to pass directly between two rooms.
    Our rooms are connected by a secret communicating passage.
    • 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 35:
      I put my grips against the communicating door last night.
    • 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express—the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
      Step from this car into the last one of the triplet, the restaurant-bar, and the communicating doors will open before you touch them.

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