Contact is the act of touching or communicating with someone or something else. The question increasingly isn't whether there is other life in the universe, but how on earth we will ever make contact with it.
A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Noun
close interaction; "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings"
Noun
the act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact with the light switch"
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(electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts"
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a thin curved glass or plastic lens designed to fit over the cornea in order to correct vision or to deliver medication
Noun
a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas"
Noun
a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
Noun
the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"
Noun
a person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor"
Noun
the state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity; "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid"
Verb
be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"
Verb
be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
n.
A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or
meeting.
n.
The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and
at the point of meeting have a common direction.
n.
The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
Contact
A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
Usage Examples
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it.
During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.
I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.
Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.
I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.
But back to your question, it was a wonderful experience with the Art Ensemble, and I keep in contact and sort of follow what's going on, but it was also very important to make this step, you may say this leap of faith.
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Other Usage ExamplesBasketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
I had been involved in U.S. intelligence in Berlin, Germany, while in the military and had worked with a contact with the Central Intelligence Agency office there.
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.
For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.
Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.
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