contact
UK/ˈkɒntækt//ˈkɑntækt/
contact noun: the act of touching physically; being in close association.
Noun
contact (countable and uncountable, plural contacts)
- The act of touching physically; being in close association.
- 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.1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
- The establishment of communication (with).
- 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...1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
- If the pilot […] cannot establish visual contact with the ground, he must immediately execute a missed-approach procedure […]1983, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee, Hazardous Obstructions at San Francisco Airport, page 126
- A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
- Touch the contact to ground and read the number again.
- Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
- Who is the company's contact for sales queries?
- The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients.
- A means of communication with a person, especially in the form of a telephone number.
- A contact lens.
- A device designed for repetitive connections.
- Contact juggling.
- I bought myself a new contact ball last week
- The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Verb
contact (third-person singular simple present contacts, present participle contacting, simple past and past participle contacted)
- To touch; to come into physical contact with.
- The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
- To establish communication with (something or someone).
- I am trying to contact my sister.
- Synonyms:
- reach
contact meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
contact in Hindi
- an establishment of communication
- संपर्क sampark
contact in Tamil
- someone with whom one is in communication
- காண்டாக்ட் kāṇṭākṭ
- an act of touching physically
- தொடல் toṭal, தொடு toṭu
- an establishment of communication
- தொடர்பு toṭarpu
- colloquial: a contact lens — see also contact lens
- தொடுவில்லை toṭuvillai
contact in Urdu
- an act of touching physically
- مَساس masās, لَمْس lams
- an establishment of communication
- تَماس tamās, رابْطَہ rābta, رابِطَہ rābita, اِتِّصال ittisāl
contact in Bengali
- contact
- যোগাযোগ jōgajōg, স্পর্শ sporśo
More languagesFewer languages
- contact in Telugu
- అంటుకొను aṇṭukonu, ముట్టుకొను muṭṭukonu, తాకు tāku, సంపర్కించు samparkiñcu
- contact in Malayalam
- ബന്ധം bandhaṁ
- contact in Kannada
- ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸು samparkisu, ಸಂಪರ್ಕ samparka, ಸೋಂಕು sōṅku
- contact in Punjabi
- ਸੰਪਰਕ
- contact in Odia
- ସ୍ପର୍ଶ sparśa
- contact in Sanskrit
- योग yóga
- contact in Assamese
- স্পর্শ, স্পৰ্শ sporxo
- contact in Nepali
- सम्पर्क samparka
- contact in Pashto
- تماس نیول
- contact in Arabic
- مُلَامَسَة mulāmasa, لَمْسَة lamsa, لَمْس lams, اِتِّصَال ittiṣāl
- contact in Persian
- لمس کردن lams kardan, تماس گرفتن tamâs gereftan
- contact in Thai
- แตะต้อง dtɛ̀-dtɔ̂ng, ติดต่อ dtìt-dtɔ̀ɔ
- contact in Vietnamese
- sự chạm, sự tiếp xúc, liên lạc
Examples of contact in a sentence
- If you need help, please contact a member of the crew.
- Grammarians are agreed that contact clauses are a paratactic construction of two independent clauses.
- The ohmic contacts were deposited at the edge of the mesa.
Synonyms of contact
Forms of contact
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | contacts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | contacts |
| present participle | contacting |
| past participle | contacted |
| past | contacted |
Origin of contact
From Latin contactus, from contingō (“to touch on all sides”), from tangō (“to touch”). Used in English since the 17th century.
Words formed from contact
- anticontact
- body contact
- circle contact lens
- contactable
- contact ball
- contact binary
- contact call
- contact card
- contact details
- contact experience
- 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
- ice-contact delta
- intercontact
- language contact
- letterbox contact
- line of contact
- make contact with
Phrases with contact
- on contact
- slow contact
- contact balls
- contact calls
- contact cards
- contact highs
- contact lines
- contact shoes
- contact shots
- contact times
- contact wires
- third contact
38 more phrasesFewer phrases
- contact lenses
- contact levels
- contact prints
- contact sheets
- contact sports
- contact traced
- contact traces
- contact wounds
- second contact
- contact hitters
- contact numbers
- contact tracers
- patient contact
- rolling contact
- thermal contact
- contact binaries
- contact juggling
- contact tracings
- lines of contact
- point of contact
- tactical contact
- contact languages
- contact manifolds
- First Contact Day
- made contact with
- points of contact
- contact explosives
- contact geometries
- makes contact with
- contact experiences
- making contact with
- circle contact lenses
- contact metamorphisms
- fourth points of contact
- no plan survives contact with the enemy
- no plan survives first contact with the enemy
- no battle plan survives contact with the enemy
- no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy
Words that rhyme with contact
Questions about contact
- What does contact mean?
- Contact means the act of touching physically; being in close association.
- What is contact in Hindi?
- Contact in Hindi is संपर्क (sampark). See Contact meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is contact?
- Contact can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce contact?
- Contact is pronounced /ˈkɑntækt/ (US).
- What is the plural of contact?
- The plural of contact is contacts.
Words near contact in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: contact (page history and authors); যোগাযোগ (Bengali) (page history and authors); ബന്ധം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಸಂಪರ್ಕ (Kannada) (page history and authors); contact (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ସ୍ପର୍ଶ (Odia) (page history and authors); योग (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); স্পর্শ (Assamese) (page history and authors); सम्पर्क (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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