contact
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mining
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Latin contactus, from contingō (“to touch on all sides”), from tangō (“to touch”). Used in English since the 17th century.
Inflected forms:
form: contacts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: contacts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contacting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contacted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contacted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of touching physically; being in close association.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
gloss: The establishment of communication (with).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I haven't been in contact with her for years.
In the old days, […] he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
When written information is unavailable and archeological findings are subject to conflicting interpretations, language data frequently provide the only evidence for prehistoric ethnic and cultural contacts.
gloss: The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If the pilot […] cannot establish visual contact with the ground, he must immediately execute a missed-approach procedure […]
gloss: A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.
gloss: Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Who is the company's contact for sales queries?
The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
gloss: Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A contact lens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A device designed for repetitive connections.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Contact juggling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: I bought myself a new contact ball last week
gloss: The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To touch; to come into physical contact with.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
gloss: To establish communication with (something or someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I am trying to contact my sister.
Derived words: anticontact
body contact
circle contact lens
contactable
contact ball
contact binary
contact call
contact card
contact details
contact explosive
contact-free
contact geometry
contact high
contact hitter
contactin
contact inhibition
contactization
contact language
contact lens
contactless
contact level
contact line
contact linguistics
contact manifold
contact metamorphism
contact nap
contact number
contact person
contact print
contact printing
contact process
contact sheet
contact shoe
contact shot
contact sport
contact time
contact trace
contact-trace
contact tracer
contact tracing
contact-tracing
contactual
contact wire
contact wound
coontact
cross-contact
direct client contact
electrical contact
eye contact
first contact
fourth contact
fourth point of contact
golden contact
intercontact
language contact
letterbox contact
line of contact
make contact with
microcontact
multicontact
nanocontact
no battle plan survives contact with the enemy
no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy
non-contact
noncontact
no plan survives contact with the enemy
no plan survives first contact with the enemy
on contact
overcontact
paleocontact
paracontact
patient contact
point of contact
POC
postcontact
precontact
pseudocontact
rolling contact
second contact
semicontact
slow contact
tactical contact
thermal contact
third contact
untact
contactee
contactor
noncontacted
noncontacting
recontact
supercontacting
uncontacted
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: կապորդ
roman: kapord
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əlaqə
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 聯繫 /联系
roman: liánxì
lang: Czech
word: kontakt
lang: Dutch
word: contact
lang: Finnish
word: kontakti
lang: Finnish
word: yhteyshenkilö
lang: French
word: contact
lang: French
word: connaissance
lang: Greek
word: σύνδεσμος
roman: sýndesmos
lang: Greek
word: επαφή
roman: epafí
lang: Hebrew
word: איש קשר
lang: Hungarian
word: kapcsolattartó
lang: Icelandic
word: tengiliður
lang: Italian
word: contatto
lang: Japanese
word: 連絡先
roman: renrakusaki
lang: Japanese
word: お問い合わせ
roman: o-toiawase
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پەیوەند
roman: peywend
lang: Ladino
word: alishik
lang: Ladino
word: kontakto
lang: Māori
word: hoapā
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مُخاطَب
roman: moxâtab
lang: Polish
word: kontakt
lang: Portuguese
word: contato
lang: Portuguese
word: contacto
lang: Russian
word: конта́кт
roman: kontákt
lang: Russian
word: связно́й
roman: svjaznój
lang: Tamil
word: காண்டாக்ட்
roman: kāṇṭākṭ
lang: Welsh
word: cyswllt