contact

Meaning of contact

noun
  1. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  2. The establishment of communication (with).
    I haven't been in contact with her for years.
  3. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
    Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.
  4. Someone with whom one is in communication.
    The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
  5. A contact lens.
  6. A device designed for repetitive connections.
  7. (by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
    I bought myself a new contact ball last week
  8. The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
verb
  1. To touch; to come into physical contact with.
    The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
  2. To establish communication with something or someone
    I am trying to contact my sister.

Information about contact

Hyphenation of contact

con-tact

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • contact is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

contact synonyms

Meaning impinging:

impinging, striking

Meaning middleman:

middleman

Meaning liaison:

liaison, link

Meaning tangency:

tangency

Meaning touch:

touch, adjoin, meet

Meaning reach:

reach

Translation of contact

Words that rhyme with contact

tact, semitact, tocktact, Photocontact, intact, noncontact, pentact, postcontact, precontact, recontact, postact, outact

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