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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
contact
n 1: close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they
claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial
beings"
2: the act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact
with the light switch" [syn: contact, physical contact]
3: the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate
proximity; "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid"
4: the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact
with the pier scraped paint from the hull" [syn: contact,
impinging, striking]
5: a person who is in a position to give you special assistance;
"he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the
governor" [syn: contact, middleman]
6: a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a
liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, link,
contact, inter-group communication]
7: (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical
conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to
solder the contacts" [syn: contact, tangency]
8: a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the
base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues" [syn: contact,
touch]
9: a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the
cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
[syn: contact, contact lens]
v 1: be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements
reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he
emigrated to Australia" [syn: reach, get through, get
hold of, contact]
2: 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" [syn: touch, adjoin, meet, contact]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Contact \Con"tact\ (k[o^]n"t[a^]kt), n. [L. contactus, fr.
contingere, -tactum, to touch on all sides. See
Contingent.]
1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or
meeting.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Geom.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which
meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of
dissimilar rock. --Raymond.
[1913 Webster]
4. (Electricity) 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]
5. 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]
Contact level, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when
two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with
each other; -- used in precise determinations of lengths
and in the accurate graduation of instruments.
[1913 Webster]
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Thesaurus Results for contact:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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 to |
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Common Misspellings > |
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