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Contact   /kˈɑntˌækt/   Listen
Contact

noun
1.
Close interaction.  "They claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"
2.
The act of touching physically.  Synonym: physical contact.
3.
The state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity.
4.
The physical coming together of two or more things.  Synonyms: impinging, striking.
5.
A person who is in a position to give you special assistance.  Synonym: middleman.
6.
A channel for communication between groups.  Synonyms: inter-group communication, liaison, link.
7.
(electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact.  Synonym: tangency.
8.
A communicative interaction.  Synonym: touch.  "He got in touch with his colleagues"
9.
A thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication.  Synonym: contact lens.
verb
1.
Be in or establish communication with.  Synonyms: get hold of, get through, reach.  "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
2.
Be in direct physical contact with; make contact.  Synonyms: adjoin, meet, touch.  "Their hands touched" , "The wire must not contact the metal cover" , "The surfaces contact at this point"



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"Contact" Quotes from Famous Books



... the man to whom the poor drunkard pointed his pipe and sneeringly invited Horace Jackson to try and do him good. The young man shrunk at first instinctively from coming in contact with old Reuben. Surely there was abundance of self-denying work in looking after the inhabitants of the hamlet itself; why then need he concern himself about a man who was only a passer through, and had ...
— Working in the Shade - Lowly Sowing brings Glorious Reaping • Theodore P Wilson
... cereals and textile plants but little; they put the greater part of their fortune into cattle, exactly because in that regime of continual war and revolution lands easily kept changing proprietors. Furthermore, the more frequent contact with Rome acquainted the Gauls with Roman agriculture and its abler methods, with Latin life and ...
— Characters and events of Roman History • Guglielmo Ferrero
... for Ossaroo to caution his companions to circumspection. They knew as well as he that an elephant enraged as this one was, whether a rogue elephant or an honest one, was anything but a safe customer to come in contact with; and that this particular rogue was most particularly angry they had just had both ocular ...
— The Cliff Climbers - A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters" • Captain Mayne Reid
... trampled upon, and now that he had become rich in copra (the dried kernels of cocoanuts from which oil is made), he in his turn beat and trampled. It was the only law he knew. He was without refinement, never having come into contact with that state of being long enough to fall under its influence. He was a shrewd bargainer; and any who respected him did so for two reasons, his strength and his wallet. Such flattery sufficed his needs. He was unmarried; by inclination, perhaps, rather than by ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath
... he make leather and make de shoes for de plantation. After freedom date, de way he make a livin' for mammy and us chillun was by makin' boots and shoes and half solin' them for white folks at Blackstock, S. C. Marse Sam Brice mighty glad for mammy to contact sich a man to be ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 • Various


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