participate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).

   For the second year, foreign amateur runners were allowed to participate in a 10-kilometer race, a half-marathon or a full marathon in Pyongyang, the capital. The races were a part of the April 15 birthday celebration of Kim Il-sung, the former leader of North Korea and father of his successors: Kim Jong-il, a son, and Kim Jong-un, a grandson.

2. 2
   verb

   To share, to take part in (something).

   A spirit I am indeed; But am in that dimension grossly clad Which from the womb I did participate.

3. 3
   verb

   To share (something) with others; to transfer (something) to or unto others.

   1661, Thomas Salusbury, Galilaeus Galilaeus Lyncaeus, His Systeme of the World, Second Dialogue, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, London, p. 105, Make the Earth […] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star, all shall have their risings, settings, and in a word, all their other appearances.

4. 4
   adj

   Acting in common; participating.

   And, mutually participate, did minister Unto the appetite and affection common Of the whole body.

5. 5
   verb

   become a participant

6. 6
   verb

   share in something

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin participātus, the perfect passive participle of participō (“to take part in, share in, give part in, impart”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from particeps (“taking part (in), sharing (in); someone who takes part (in)”, particip- in compounds), from pars (“part”, part- in compounds) + -ceps (“which takes, taker”), literally “(someone) who takes part”; see part and capable. Compare Old English dǣlniman (“to participate”), an earlier calque of the same Latin verb.