interact
/ɪn.təˈɹækt/US/ˌɪn.tɚˈækt/
interact verb: to engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).
Verb
interact (third-person singular simple present interacts, present participle interacting, simple past and past participle interacted)
- To engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).
- The way staff interact with each other during breaks can play an important role in the workplace.
- To affect each other.
- This medication can interact with alcohol, so it's best to avoid drinking while you're taking it.
- The fortunes of the master and the servant, intimately interacting, rose together. The Baron’s secret skill had given Leopold his unexceptionable kingdom; and Leopold, in his turn, as time went on, was able to furnish the Baron with more and more keys to more and more back doors.1921, Lytton Strachey, chapter 3, in Queen Victoria,, London: Collins, published 1958, page 69
Noun
interact (plural interacts)
- A short act or piece between others, as in a play; a break between acts.
- […] the flight of time is best indicated by an interact. When the curtain is down, the action on the stage remains, as it were, in suspense. The audience lets its attention revert to the affairs of real life; and it is quite willing, when the mimic world is once more revealed, to suppose that any...1912, William Archer, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 8, pp. 108-109
- The play gives detailed descriptions of the instruments used in the interact music […]1980, Mary Chan, Music in the Theatre of Ben Jonson, Oxford: Clarendon, Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 15
- Synonyms:
- interlude, entracte, intermission
- Intermediate employment or time.
- Play, in good company, is only play, and not gaming; not deep, and consequently not dangerous nor dishonourable. It is only the inter-acts of other amusements.1750, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters Written […] to His Son, London: P. Dodsley, 10th edition, 1792, Volume 2, Letter 219, p. 344
- A pair or series of acts involving more than one person.
- Inasmuch as it is impossible to analyze the contents of an entire interpersonal relationship, it is helpful to conceptualize a given communication event as consisting of a series of subevents. Any one subevent may be pulled out as a basic unit for analysis in the study of interpersonal...1975, Ralph Webb, Jr., chapter 1, in Interpersonal Speech Communication: Principles and Practices, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, pages 23–24
- As they listened to groups communicate, Fisher and his coworkers noted what each group member said (labeled a speech act) and how the next person responded. This pairing of speech acts is called an interact.1991, Michael Z. Hackman, Craig E. Johnson, chapter 6, in Leadership: A Communication Perspective, Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, page 123
interact meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
interact in Tamil
- ஊடாடு, அளவளாவு, ஒன்றோடொன்று செயல் புரி, செயலெதிர் கொள், செயலெதிர் செய், இடைவினைபுரி
interact in Urdu
- تعامل کرنا
interact in Bengali
- গর্ভনাটিকা, পরস্পরের উপর ক্রিয়া করা
interact in Malayalam
- അന്യോന്യം വർത്തിക്കുക, സമ്പർക്കം പുലർത്തുക, സംവദിക്കുക, ഇടപെടുക
More languagesFewer languages
- interact in Malay
- berinteraksi, bersaling tindak
- interact in Vietnamese
- tương tác
Examples of interact in a sentence
- That obscure author's fans were a nerdy crowd which hardly ever interacted before the Internet age.
- He's so crooked that everyone avoids interacting with him as much as they can help it.
- The diplomats were advised not to interact with any foreign nationals except on official duty.
Synonyms of interact
Forms of interact
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | interacts |
| present participle | interacting |
| past participle | interacted |
| past | interacted |
| Noun | |
| plural | interacts |
Origin of interact
From inter- + act.
Words formed from interact
Words that rhyme with interact
Questions about interact
- What does interact mean?
- Interact means to engage in communication and other shared activities (with someone).
- What is interact in Tamil?
- Interact in Tamil is ஊடாடு, அளவளாவு, ஒன்றோடொன்று செயல் புரி. See Interact meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is interact?
- Interact can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce interact?
- Interact is pronounced /ɪn.təˈɹækt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of interact?
- The past tense of interact is interacted.
Words near interact in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: interact (page history and authors); interact (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interact (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interact (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); interact (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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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