interact
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin ācta
Old French actbor.
Middle English acte
English act
English interact
From inter- + act.
Inflected forms:
form: interacts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interacting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interacted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interacted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: interacts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To act upon each other.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The way staff interact with each other during breaks can play an important role in the workplace.
gloss: To act upon each other.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This medication can interact with alcohol, so it's best to avoid drinking while you're taking it.
The fortunes of the master and the servant, intimately interacting, rose together. The Baron’s secret skill had given Leopold his unexceptionable kingdom; and Leopold, in his turn, as time went on, was able to furnish the Baron with more and more keys to more and more back doors.
It is now known that many pairs of organic phosphate insecticides are highly dangerous, the toxicity being stepped up or “potentiated” through the combined action. […] Residues well within the legally permissible limits may interact.
gloss: A short act or piece between others, as in a play; a break between acts.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: 1912, William Archer, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 8, pp. 108-109,
[…] the flight of time is best indicated by an interact. When the curtain is down, the action on the stage remains, as it were, in suspense. The audience lets its attention revert to the affairs of real life; and it is quite willing, when the mimic world is once more revealed, to suppose that any reasonable space of time has elapsed […]
The play gives detailed descriptions of the instruments used in the interact music […]
gloss: Intermediate employment or time.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1750, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters Written […] to His Son, London: P. Dodsley, 10th edition, 1792, Volume 2, Letter 219, p. 344,
Play, in good company, is only play, and not gaming; not deep, and consequently not dangerous nor dishonourable. It is only the inter-acts of other amusements.
gloss: A pair or series of acts involving more than one person.
pos: noun
examples: Inasmuch as it is impossible to analyze the contents of an entire interpersonal relationship, it is helpful to conceptualize a given communication event as consisting of a series of subevents. Any one subevent may be pulled out as a basic unit for analysis in the study of interpersonal communication; this basic unit may then be called an interact. […] each interact is a distinctive attempt to conceal, repeat, or disclose information and/or to influence the relationship.
As they listened to groups communicate, Fisher and his coworkers noted what each group member said (labeled a speech act) and how the next person responded. This pairing of speech acts is called an interact.
Related words: interactable
interactant
interactee
interaction
interactive
interactome
interactor
Derived words: interactability
interactment
interact with
misinteract
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: bashkëveproj
lang: Bulgarian
word: взаимоде́йствам
roman: vzaimodéjstvam
lang: Catalan
word: interactuar
lang: Catalan
word: relacionar-se
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 互動 /互动
roman: hùdòng
lang: Czech
word: interagovat
lang: Dutch
word: interageren
lang: Dutch
word: elkaar beïnvloeden
lang: Dutch
word: in wisselwerking zijn met
lang: Esperanto
word: interagi
lang: Finnish
word: olla vuorovaikutuksessa
lang: Finnish
word: vuorovaikuttaa
lang: French
word: interagir
lang: Galician
word: interactuar
lang: German
word: interagieren
lang: Greek
word: αλληλεπιδρώ
roman: allilepidró
lang: Italian
word: interagire
lang: Japanese
word: 相互作用する
roman: sōgo-sayō suru
lang: Japanese
word: 相呼応する
roman: ai-ko'ō suru
lang: Khmer
word: ធ្វើអន្តរកម្ម
roman: thvəə ʼɑntaʼraʼkam
lang: Malay
word: berinteraksi
lang: Malay
word: bersaling tindak
lang: Māori
word: tāutuutu
lang: Māori
word: tauwhitiwhiti
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ha omgang med
lang: Polish
word: wchodzić w interakcję
lang: Polish
word: interagować
lang: Portuguese
word: interagir
lang: Romanian
word: interacționa
lang: Russian
word: взаимоде́йствовать
roman: vzaimodéjstvovatʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: interagirati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: uzajamno djelovati
lang: Slovak
word: interagovať
lang: Slovak
word: vzájomne pôsobiť
lang: Spanish
word: interactuar
lang: Swedish
word: interagera
lang: Ukrainian
word: взаємоді́яти
roman: vzajemodíjaty
lang: Vietnamese
word: tương tác