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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
send (out)/transmit a signal
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The signals are transmitted via satellites.
sexually transmitted disease
transmit/pass on a virus (= pass it from one person or animal to another )
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The rabies virus is transmitted in saliva when one animal bites another.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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sexually
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Besides, early starters are more likely to have many partners, and so are at greater risk from sexually transmitted diseases.
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And when it does, protect yourself and your partner from all sexually transmitted diseases.
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Use of this drug does not protect against sexually transmitted disease.
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When she asked him if he had a sexually transmitted disease, he said no.
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They first thought it was a sexually transmitted disease, so males and females were kept separate.
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It is contagious in the same way that sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and gonorrhea, are contagious.
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The parasites that were spread in this way had never before been considered sexually transmitted .
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This can happen with sexually transmitted diseases only if the average infected person infects more than one other person.
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child
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The uneducated woman transmits to her children the same doomed life.
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How do schools transmit value judgements about children who succeed and those who do not?
code
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To combat this new breed of criminal, all computerised data on individuals should be transmitted in code , says the commission.
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If history is any guide, the power to transmit crack-proof codes could alter the fates of civilizations.
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At busy crossroads throughout the city, the company has rigged up poles which transmit a continuous location code .
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According to industry officials, a new breed of digital phone transmits in computer code that is much more difficult to intercept.
computer
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The coordinates are then transmitted to the host computer .
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But it is the cameras whose pictures are transmitted via computer that are changing response time.
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Radiation readings are taken every hour at each station and are transmitted to a central computer which analyses the data.
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According to industry officials, a new breed of digital phone transmits in computer code that is much more difficult to intercept.
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It can be used to transmit computer data to and from sites where conventional lines are not available.
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The data is transmitted to a computer inside a trailer that in turn measures the carbon monoxide in the exhaust.
data
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Ordinary analogue telephone lines used for voice communication have a low band width and can not transmit much data per second.
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This eliminated the need for costly lines that transmitted power or data .
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It also may be able to transmit stored data that was taken just as it landed.
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Computer networks transmit data at various speeds to meet the needs of many different user communities throughout the world.
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The system transmits data in standard data packets of 80 characters.
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Traditionally, computer networks transmitted data at relatively low speeds measured primarily in kilobits per second.
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It can be used to transmit computer data to and from sites where conventional lines are not available.
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Local-area networks transmitting data at speeds of between 10 megabits per second and 100 megabits per second also exist.
disease
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Recently I treated her for a sexually transmitted disease with metronidazole, which is known to cause foetal abnormalities in rats.
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They first thought it was a sexually transmitted disease , so males and females were kept separate.
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And the third is to treat other sexually transmitted diseases .
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It is contagious in the same way that sexually transmitted diseases , such as syphilis and gonorrhea, are contagious.
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Besides, early starters are more likely to have many partners, and so are at greater risk from sexually transmitted diseases .
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This can happen with sexually transmitted diseases only if the average infected person infects more than one other person.
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Use of this drug does not protect against sexually transmitted disease .
generation
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This attitude becomes part of their subculture and is transmitted from generation to generation.
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There are, however, other more important processes working: beliefs get transmitted downwards from one generation to the next.
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Thus is instinct transmitted across the generations .
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From their perspective, schools are repositories of the authentic national culture which they transmit between generations .
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He proposed a theory in which the germ plasm was totally isolated from the adult body that transmits it to future generations .
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They know the formulae, they have been transmitted from generation to generation down the years.
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Furthermore, each adaptation is supposedly transmitted from one generation to the next by genetic means alone.
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These are learned patterns of behaviour that are transmitted from one generation to another.
infection
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This is not to say that such a person can not transmit infection .
information
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The value of the use of language to transmit information is well embedded in our cultural mythology.
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These devices process and transmit information to and from many Sources over great distances at the speed of light.
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The function of nerve fibres is to transmit coded information from one place to the other.
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The private key, used to encrypt transmitted information by the user, is kept secret.
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People could send telegrams, telephone each other, and transmit information much more quickly than ever before.
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The fiber is useless unless it connects customers to equipment that transmits or stores information or video programs.
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Once the carrier provides confirmation, the carrier transmits the relevant information to the new holder.
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A sender transmits information through a communication channel to a receiver.
knowledge
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Using a variety of communicative skills to transmit knowledge , understanding and feelings.
message
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He turned to meet Blanche's steady gaze, wondering whether the murdered woman wished to transmit a message through the scene.
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The communicator chooses what message to transmit and how the message will be shaped.
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An influential strand in the economic analysis of law seeks to transmit a particular message .
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Edison was at the fair with his quadruplex telegraph, which transmitted several messages at once.
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As humans we can transmit messages to each other by speaking, writing, morse code, semaphore and smoke signals.
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These signaling molecules are called neurotransmitters because they transmit messages between neurons.
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There is every reason to believe that nerve fibres can also transmit messages from cell to cell with different codes.
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Vidalin was among many who transmitted coded messages to the Resistance.
network
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Shelton's photograph was fed into the network and transmitted to a scanning device.
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The network also transmits legislative hearings statewide.
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Computer networks transmit data at various speeds to meet the needs of many different user communities throughout the world.
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Traditionally, computer networks transmitted data at relatively low speeds measured primarily in kilobits per second.
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Local-area networks transmitting data at speeds of between 10 megabits per second and 100 megabits per second also exist.
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Most of these networks transmit data at relatively low speeds of 192 kilobits per second or less.
person
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The organism is transmitted from person to person in airborne droplets.
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We are extremely fortunate that such a devastating virus is so difficult to effectively transmit from person to person.
power
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This eliminated the need for costly lines that transmitted power or data.
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Soon universal time signals will be transmitted through all power and telephone lines.
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E can be forced to transmit this power to California customers.
radio
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Once there it dutifully started transmitting its radio signals.
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Antenna Hungaria, which transmits radio and television programs, is also on the block again.
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The data is transmitted to nearby radio receivers, letting a doctor follow you around, sort of.
satellite
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It would be transmitted on the Astra satellite used by BSkyB.
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Their video will be transmitted by satellite to each of the schools taking part.
signal
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He flipped the radio switches on again and transmitted his call signal to the base at Alma-Ata.
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They continuously transmit coded signals and time data that receivers use to compute latitude and longitude.
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Filter synthesis 12.1 Introduction An ideal filter would perfectly transmit signals at all desired frequencies and completely reject them at all other frequencies.
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The traffic of ions into and out of neurons underlies their capacity to generate and transmit electrical signals .
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It transmits a signal of continuous dashes in morse.
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A laser transmitted faint light signals to an electronic detector.
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It transmits a signal of continuous dots and dashes and activates an Amer light, flashing the same signal.
system
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The Ariadne has a radio system that can transmit to, and receive transmissions from, any quarter of the globe.
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The digital system is then transmitted along the channel of communication to the distant end.
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The system transmits data in standard data packets of 80 characters.
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Band B is intended for systems which transmit continuously.
value
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How do schools transmit value judgements about children who succeed and those who do not?
virus
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But a very few aphids transmitting a virus can cause havoc to sugar beet, for instance.
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But the bear might have transmitted the rabies virus .
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Perhaps I have an asymptomatic case and transmitted the virus to him.
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People who know they are positive will not willfully transmit the virus .
■ VERB
use
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He doesn't like using hotel switchboards to transmit orders.
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The company would be interested in forming alliances to allow television companies use its lines to transmit information.
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It can be used to transmit computer data to and from sites where conventional lines are not available.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Cultural values are transmitted from parent to child.
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Malaria is transmitted to humans by mosquitoes.
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The U.S. Open will be transmitted live via satellite.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Furthermore, there were many differences of opinion regarding the question of just how contagious leprosy was and how it was transmitted.
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Some aspects of this immediacy can also be transmitted by our contacts with non-human organisms whose lifespan far exceeds our own.
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The highest speed at which a stress can be transmitted through any substance is usually the speed of sound in that substance.
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The new rate would be about 1 megabit per second, enough to transmit a small novel in a blink.
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The traffic of ions into and out of neurons underlies their capacity to generate and transmit electrical signals.
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This attitude becomes part of their subculture and is transmitted from generation to generation.
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To combat this new breed of criminal, all computerised data on individuals should be transmitted in code, says the commission.
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Video transmitted from the ground will be displayed on laptop computers aboard the shuttle.