'Contact' definitions:
Definition of 'contact'
(from WordNet)
noun
Close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"
noun
The act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact with the light switch" [syn: contact, physical contact]
noun
The state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity; "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid"
noun
The physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" [syn: contact, impinging, striking]
noun
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]
noun
A channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication]
noun
(electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts" [syn: contact, tangency]
noun
A communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues" [syn: contact, touch]
noun
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]
verb
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]
verb
Definition of 'Contact'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'contact'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- ESP,
- 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