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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun contact has 9 senses
- contact(n = noun.act) Array - close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings" is a kind of interaction
- contact(n = noun.act) physical contact - the act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact with the light switch" is a kind of touch, touching
- contact(n = noun.state) Array - the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity; "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid" is a kind of connectedness, connection, link
- contact(n = noun.event) impinging, striking - the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" is a kind of happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent
- contact(n = noun.person) middleman - a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor" is a kind of representative
- contact(n = noun.communication) inter-group communication, liaison, link - a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" is a kind of channel, communication channel, line
- contact(n = noun.artifact) tangency - (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts" has particulars: breaker point, distributor point, point, electrical contact, p-n junction, short, short circuit, sound bow, pole, terminal, tread, contact arm, wiper, wiper arm
- contact(n = noun.communication) touch - a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues" is a kind of communicating, communication
- contact(n = noun.artifact) contact lens - a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication; Array is a kind of lens, lens system, lense
has particulars: brush, eye contact, placement
Derived form verb contact1
has particulars: rub, wipe, fair ball, snick, laying on
Derived form verb contact2
has particulars: osculation, tangency
Derived form verb contact2
has particulars: collision, hit, engagement, interlocking, mesh, meshing, flick, impact, touch, touching
Derived form verb contact2
Derived form verb contact1
is a kind of conjunction, junction
Verb contact has 2 senses
- contact(v = verb.communication) get hold of, get through, reach - be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia" is one way to communicate, intercommunicate
- contact(v = verb.contact) adjoin, meet, touch - be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" Derived forms noun contact2, noun contact4, noun contact3
Derived forms noun contact1, noun contact6
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
contact, n. [L. contactus, fr. contingere, -tactum, to touch on all sides. See Contingent.].
- A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting. [1913 Webster]
- The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. [1913 Webster]
- The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
- A metallic conducting component of an electrical device connected to a circuit within and so situated that it may form a conducting pathway to an external power source or device when contacted by another conductor; as, the contact on a standard light bulb has the shape of a screw for easy insertion into the socket. [PJC]
- A person who serves to commmunicate information to or from one group to another, whether formally or informally; as, a good Washington reporter has contacts in the White House. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
contact, n. & v.
--n.
1 the state or condition of touching, meeting, or communicating.
2 a person who is or may be communicated with for information, supplies, assistance, etc.
3 Electr. a a connection for the passage of a current. b a device for providing this.
4 a person likely to carry a contagious disease through being associated with an infected person.
5 (usu. in pl.) colloq. a contact lens.
--v.tr.
1 get into communication with (a person).
2 begin correspondence or personal dealings with.
--n.
1 the state or condition of touching, meeting, or communicating.
2 a person who is or may be communicated with for information, supplies, assistance, etc.
3 Electr. a a connection for the passage of a current. b a device for providing this.
4 a person likely to carry a contagious disease through being associated with an infected person.
5 (usu. in pl.) colloq. a contact lens.
--v.tr.
1 get into communication with (a person).
2 begin correspondence or personal dealings with.
Idiom
contact lens a small lens placed directly on the eyeball to correct the vision. contact print a photographic print made by placing a negative directly on sensitized paper etc. and illuminating it. contact sport a sport in which participants necessarily come into bodily contact with one another.
Derivative
contactable adj.
Etymology
L contactus f. contingere (as com-, tangere touch)
THESAURUS
contact
ESP, accord, acquaintance, answer, approach, arbitrator, assail the ear, association, attouchement, be heard, breath, broker, brush, brush by, caress, caress the ear, closeness, come in contact, commerce, communicate with, communication, communion, companionship, concord, congress, conjunction, connection, contiguity, contingence, conversation, converse, correspond, correspond with, correspondence, cutaneous sense, dealing, dealings, empathy, establish connection, exchange, feel, feeling, fellowship, fingertip caress, flick, friend, gain a hearing, get, get across, get hold of, get through to, get to, glance, go-between, graze, hand-mindedness, harmony, hit, impinge, impingement, impingence, in, information, interaction, interagent, interchange, intercommunication, intercommunion, intercourse, intermediary, intermediate, intermedium, internuncio, interplay, interpleader, interrogate, junction, kiss, lambency, lap, lick, light touch, linguistic intercourse, maintain connection, make advances, make an impression, make contact with, make oneself heard, make overtures, make up to, mediator, medium, message, middleman, nearness, negotiant, negotiator, nudge, oneness, osculate, osculation, phone, propinquity, proximity, question, raise, rapport, reach, reach the ear, register, relate to, relation, reply, reply to, respond to, response, ring up, rub, scrape, sense of touch, shave, sideswipe, skim, skirt, social intercourse, speak to, speak with, speaking, speech, speech circuit, speech situation, squeak by, stroke, sympathy, tactile sense, taction, talking, tangency, tap, telepathy, telephone, tentative contact, tentative poke, touch, touching, traffic, truck, two-way communication, understanding, union, unity, whisper, write toROGET THESAURUS
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Contiguity
N contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition, abutment, osculation, meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence, adhesion, touching, (touch), borderland, frontier, tangent, abutter, contiguous, touching, in contact, conterminous, end to end, osculatory, pertingent, tangential, hand to hand, close to, with no interval.VB be contiguous, join, adjoin, abut on, march with, graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide, coexist, adhere, juxtapose, contact, join (unite), link (vinculum).
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