Example sentences of "used for communication " in BNC.

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1 Article 1 of the 1896 Convention provided for service at the request of officers of the ministère public or of the courts of a Contracting State addressed to the competent authority in the state of destination ; the diplomatic channel was to be used for communication from country to country unless direct communication between the relevant authorities of the two states was allowed by bilateral agreement .
2 Finally , Wittgenstein makes the point that if the language is ever to be used for communication , the terms in it can not get their meanings from objects private to one user of the language .
3 If the term ‘ beetle ’ gets its meaning from what is in the box , it can not be used for communication with others , who being ignorant of that beetle 's nature will not be able to understand the term .
4 If the term has a meaning independent of the nature of the object , then it can be used for communication ( perhaps it means ‘ whatever is in the box ’ ) but the private object in the box drops out of consideration as irrelevant — an idle cog .
5 Even above ground , vibrations can be used for communication .
6 English used for communication outside commercial , scientific or other specialist contexts .
7 In the West African slave trade , a pidgin form of English ( i.e. a pidgin with English as lexifier ) was used for communication between the English slavers and their African counterparts , as well as among those Africans involved in the trade who did not have any other language in common .
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