English Explanatory Dictionary

contact

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  2. The establishment of communication (with).
  3. The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
  4. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
  5. Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
  6. A means of communication with a person, especially in the form of a telephone number.
  7. A contact lens.
  8. A device designed for repetitive connections.
  9. Contact juggling.
  10. The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
verb
  1. To touch; to come into physical contact with.
  2. To establish communication with (something or someone).

Pronunciation

/ˈkɑntækt/ /ˈkɒntækt/ /kənˈtækt/ en-us-contact.ogg

Word forms

contact contacts contacting contacted

Etymology

From Latin contactus, from contingō (“to touch on all sides”), from tangō (“to touch”). Used in English since the 17th century.

Synonyms

reach

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

Translations

Armenian: կապորդ Azerbaijani: əlaqə Chinese Mandarin: 聯繫 /联系 Czech: kontakt Dutch: contact Finnish: kontakti Finnish: yhteyshenkilö French: contact French: connaissance Greek: σύνδεσμος Greek: επαφή Hebrew: איש קשר Hungarian: kapcsolattartó Icelandic: tengiliður Italian: contatto Japanese: 連絡先 Japanese: お問い合わせ Central Kurdish: پەیوەند Ladino: alishik Ladino: kontakto Māori: hoapā Iranian Persian: مُخاطَب Polish: kontakt Portuguese: contato Portuguese: contacto Russian: конта́кт Russian: связно́й Tamil: காண்டாக்ட் Welsh: cyswllt
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