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Webster 1913 Edition
Contact
Con′tact
(kŏn′tăkt)
, Noun.
1.
A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
2.
(Geom.)
The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
3.
(Mining)
The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Raymond.
Contact level
, a delicate level so pivoted as to tilt when two parts of a measuring apparatus come into contact with each other; – used in precise determinations of lengths and in the accurate graduation of instruments.
Webster 1828 Edition
Contact
CONTACT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
contact
contact
English
Noun
contact (plural contacts)
- The act of touching physically; being in close association.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
- 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.
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- The establishment of communication (with).
- I haven't been in contact with her for years.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- 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 struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
- 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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Raymond to this entry?)
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Translations
an act of touching physically
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an establishment of communication
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colloquial: a contact lens — See also translations at : contact lens
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electrical: a device designed for repetitive connections
someone with whom one is in communication
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Verb
contact (third-person singular simple present contacts, present participle contacting, simple 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.
Translations
touch physically
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establish communication with
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