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contact is a noun and verb meaning "close interaction". It carries 11 recorded senses.
close interaction
“they kept in daily contact”
“they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings”
the act of touching physically
“her fingers came in contact with the light switch”
the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity
“litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid”
a person who is in a position to give you special assistance
“he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor”
a communicative interaction
“the pilot made contact with the base”
“he got in touch with his colleagues”
a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
be in or establish communication with
“Our advertisements reach millions”
“He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for contact come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.