contact
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
contact
- The act of touch#Verb|touching physically; being in close association.
- The establishment of communication (with).
- I haven't been in contact with her for years.
- A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
- Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.
- Someone with whom one is in communication.
- The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
- (informal) A contact lens.
- (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
- (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
- I bought myself a new contact ball last week
- (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
- French: contact
- German: Kontakt, Berührung
- Italian: contatto
- Portuguese: contato (Brazil), contacto (Portugal)
- Russian: конта́кт
- Spanish: contacto
- French: contact
- German: Kontakt, Verbindung
- Italian: contatto
- Portuguese: contato (Brazil), contacto (Portugal)
- Russian: конта́кт
- French: lentille
- German: Kontaktlinse
- Portuguese: lente de contato
- Russian: конта́ктная ли́нза
- French: contact, connaissance
- Italian: contatto
- Portuguese: contato (Brazil), contacto (Portugal)
- Russian: конта́кт
contact (contacts, present participle contacting; past and past participle contacted)
- (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
- The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
- (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone
- I am trying to contact my sister.
- French: contacter
- German: kontaktieren
- Italian: contattare
- Portuguese: entrar em contato, contatar, contactar
- Russian: контакти́ровать
- Spanish: contactar, entrar en contacto con
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