Contact
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English
Noun
Contact (plural Contacts)- The act of touching physically.
- The establishment of communication (with).
- A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
- Someone with whom one is in communication.
- (informal) A contact lens.
- (electricity) a device designed for repetitive connections.
Verb
Contact (third-person singular simple present Contacts, present participle Contacting, simple past and past participle Contacted)
- (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
- (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone
Adjectives for Contact
friendly; richest; effective; stimulating; intimate; personal; close; casual; fleeting; intermittent; brief; abrupt; superficial; bitter; difficult; banal; brutish; human; nation-wide; diplomatic; domestic; prolonged; mere; necessary; constant; alert; accidental; sonorous; immediate; direct; uninterrupted; unrestricted; terrible; intellectual; social; slight; unclean; extensive; miscellaneous; spontaneous; careless; rude; proffered; lawless; responsible.
Verbs for Contact
abolish—; approve of—; balk at—; bring into—; conceal—; defile by—; enter into—; establish—; favor—; harbor—; join in—; lose—; maintain—; modify—; negotiate—; oppose—; profit by—; reestablish —; renew—; uncover—; vary—.
Derived terms
body contact; contact hitter; contact information; contactable; eye contact; first contact; point of contact / POC
Thesaurus
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 to
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Latin contactus, from contingere (to touch on all sides), from tangere (to touch). Used in English since the 17th Century.
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
Contact n. (plural contacten)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin contactus.
Pronunciation
Noun
Contact m. (plural Contacts)
