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Definition: Contact |
ContactNoun1. Close interaction: "they kept in daily contact"; "they claimed that they had been in contact with extraterrestrial beings". 2. The state or condition of touching or of being in immediate proximity: "litmus paper turns red on contact with an acid". 3. The act of touching physically; "her fingers came in contact with the light switch". 4. The physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull". 5. A person who is in a position to give you special assistance; "he used his business contacts to get an introduction to the governor". 6. A channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas". 7. A junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts". 8. A communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues". Verb1. Be in communication with, establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia". 2. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "contact" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Contact \Con"tact\, noun. [Latin expression contactus, from contingere, -tactum, to touch on all sides. See Contingent.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Avian | A single field record of an individual by sight or sound (Ralph 1981:577) (syn. detection, cue, registration, observation). (references) |
Business | The exposure to an advertisement received by a member of the audience covered by the particular medium in which the advertisement appears. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | An area on the surface of a semiconductor chip, to which external connection is made. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The conductive element in a component which mates with a corresponding element to provide an electrical path. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Two or more conductors designed to establish circuit continuity when they touch, and which, due to their relative movement during operation, open or close a circuit. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Two or three contact members, which together form a means of making, breaking or changing over an electrical connection. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The part of a contact member, often of special material, which is designed to establish electrical connection with a similar part of another contact member. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Conducting element ensuring galvanic continuity between electrical circuitry and external interfacing equipment. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Of a pesticide, acting by coming in external contact with the target organism. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Of a phytocide, affecting only that part of the target organism with which it comes into contact;. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The link formed by the reins between the hands of the rider and the mouth of the horse. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Language | In cases of venerial diseases. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A plane or irregular surface between two types or ages of rock b. The surface of delimitation between a vein and its wall, or countryrock. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A contact is part of the active component of an electric switch.Contacts generally consist of metal buttons or wires that are plated with a good electrical conductor that is also corrosion-resistant, such as gold.
In mathematics, contact of order k of functions is an equivalence relation, corresponding to having the same value at a point P and also the same derivatives there, up to order k. One speaks also of curves and geometric objects having k-th order contact at a point: this is also called osculation (i.e. kissing), generalising the property of being tangent.
Contact is also the title of a science fiction novel by Carl Sagan, and film adaptation.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Contact."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Contact is a science fiction novel written by Carl Sagan and published in 1985. Some of Sagan's character traits are evident in the main character, Ellie Arroway, and the novel serves as an entertaining platform in which he encapsulates ideas surrounding many of his life's interests.A film adaptation of Contact, starring Jodie Foster, was released in 1997.
Plot summary
Warning: Spoilers follow.
Ellie is the director of "Project Argus", in which scores of radio telescopes in New Mexico are used to intensely search the skies for evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence.
Before long, the project does, indeed, discover the first confirmed communication from extraterrestrial beings, a repeating series of the first 261 prime numbers. (A sequence of prime numbers is a commonly predicted first message from alien intelligence, since mathematics is considered a "universal language", and it is conjectured that algorithms that produce successive prime numbers are sufficiently complicated so as to require intelligence to implement them.) Further analysis of the message reveals that two additional messages are contained in different forms of modulation of the signal. The second message is a primer, a kind of instruction manual that teaches how to read further communications. The third is the real message, the plans for a machine that appears to be a kind of highly advanced vehicle, with seats for five human beings.
A subplot has Ellie interacting with a pair of Christian preachers, and informally debating God's existence. Applying the scientific method to a non-scientific subject, she states that "there isn't compelling evidence that God exists...and there isn't compelling evidence that he doesn't."
Warning: Stop reading now if you don't want to know how it ends.
Ultimately, a machine is successfully built and activated, transporting five passengers—including Ellie—through wormholes to a place near the center of the Milky Way galaxy, where they meet the senders of the message, and have many of their questions answered. Upon returning to Earth, the passengers discover that what seemed like many hours to them passed by in only fractions of a second on Earth, and that all their video footage has been erased, presumably by some phenomenon in the vehicle. They are left with no proof of their stories, and are accused of fabrication.
Thus, though she has traveled across the galaxy and actually encountered extraterrestrial beings, she cannot prove it.
In a kind of postscript, Ellie, acting upon a suggestion by the senders of the message, programs a supercomputer to compute the digits of &pi to record lengths, and to analyze the stream of numbers for a non-random pattern. Very, very far from the decimal point, she finds that a special, statistically near-impossible pattern does exist. It is an unmistakably intelligent artifact, "the artist's signature", woven into the fabric of space.
Conclusion
Sagan's only novel allows the reader to plausibly experience, in the imagination, what he longed to experience in real life: the discovery of extra-terrestrial intelligence. Also, the novel ends with the heroine finding proof of "an intelligence that antedates the universe"; Sagan himself dearly wished, and failed, to find undeniable proof of God's existence. (This should not be taken to imply that Sagan wanted to believe in God. Sagan seems simply to have wanted proof in general, and especially so for God since the ramifications would be so great. According to Ann Druyan, his widow, he "never wanted to believe. He wanted to know.")
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Contact (novel)."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
CONTACT | English | European-Chinese conference on transport telematics applications in China | N/A |
| cont. | English | Contact | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: ContactSynonyms: impinging (n), inter-group communication (n), liaison (n), link (n), middleman (n), striking (n), tangency (n), adjoin (v), get hold of (v), get through (v), meet (v), reach (v), touch (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arrival | Come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter, rencounter; come in contact. |
Contiguity | Verb: be contiguous; Adjective: join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere. |
Noun: contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence; adhesion; touching; Verb: (see touch ). | |
Adjective: contiguous; touching; Verb: in contact; Noun: conterminous, end to end, osculatory; pertingent; tangential. | |
Juxtapose; contact; join (unite); link (vinculum). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Do you wear contact lenses (The Princess Diaries; writing credit: Gina Wendkos) Ok. First, get some contact lenses, cause those joints look like they could pick up cable (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon) So avoid eye contact, watch your pocketbook, and suspect everyone (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) And it's one big contact high (Go Ask Alice; writing credit: Beatrice Sparks; Ellen M. Violett) The big guy who put us all in contact has decided you're a loose end. (Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker; writing credit: Bob Kane; Paul Dini) | |
Lyrics | I hope 2 find her there gotta make some eye contact she's not the kind to stare (There She Goes; performing artist: Babyface) They catching contact, weed smoke all up in the weave (Hey Papi; performing artist: Jay-Z) No human contact (Break Stuff; performing artist: Limp Bizkit) Made contact with the human race at no time (Let there be more light; performing artist: Pink Floyd) I think I'm missing a contact lens (Another One Rides The Bus; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Clever | Sleeping on the job: I wasn’t sleeping. I was trying to pick up my contact lens without my hands. (references; author: unknown) Sometimes I know that there is intelligent life on other planets because they haven't tried to contact us. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Urutoraman Kosumosu: First Contact (2001) Faux contact (2000) Emmanuelle: First Contact (2000) Making Contact (1999) Deadly Contact (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This schistosome parasite enters the body through the skin of persons coming in contact with infested waters. The adult worm lives in the veins of its host. The parasite is magnified x256 in this photograph. Credit: Bruce Wetzel (photographer). Harry Schaefer (phot. |  | Treating pets with insecticidal dust to kill fleas that could come into contact with humans can help control the spread of plague bacteria. Credit: CDC. |
 | All woodrat species are quick to occupy, and construct nests in human habitations or outbuildings within their range, thereby, bringing vector fleas into close contact with humans and their pets. Credit: CDC. |  | Duplex measures, carrying the rear bar ahead After making contact, the rear bar was moved to the forward position It was then realigned horizontally, vertically, and for azimuth on the base line Fig. No. 9, Appendix No. 3, Report of Superintendent ... 1901, p. 244. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Shelton 100-meter comparator -- Making contact William Bowie on left. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Brazilian Pepper bushes are an ornamental from Brazil that looks like Holly. They produce red berries that birds eat. The birds carry their seeds spreading the plant throughout mangrove habitat where the Pepper bush outcompetes the mangroves. The red berries are beautiful but toxic; direct contact with them causes a poison ivy-like rash. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | West Fork Blackbird Creek, a tailing facility. The structure to the right is a spillway. Several million cubic yards contaminated tailings are behind the dam. Water is diverted into a concrete channel so it does not come into contact with the tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Surface supplied air is used in polluted water to avoid contact or ingest. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
 | Figure 27. The Aime Olive, a large weight attached to the cable immediately before a bottom dredging device. This weight would keep the dredge in contact with the bottom. Although used by fishermen prior to its oceanographic use, Aime's adaptation of this concept apparently marked its first use in oceanography. Circa 1840. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Lock sounder of the HIRONDELLE. Figure 1 is a view as it makes contact with the bottom. Figure 2 shows the sounding tube sampler returning to the surface after jettisoning its weights. Plate II, left side. In: "Results of the Scientific Campaigns of the Prince of Monaco." Vol. 84. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hungarian gal" by Szabó Sándor Commentary: "She is my nice cousin. please contact me if you use this pic., she would be so happy :)." | "Cute Closeup 2" by Haroon Siddiq Commentary: "Contact me for higher resolution picture." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Albert Einstein | Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms. |
Buddha | A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. |
Cyrus H.k. Curtis | Advertising is the essence of public contact. |
Dionysius and Halicarnassus | The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. |
Heinrich Heine | Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In contact with German social conditions, this French literature lost all its immediate practical significance, and assumed a purely literary aspect. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And it would be very interesting, coming into contact with the races below us. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All his contact with men had been by blows |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He is no contact. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The child has poor eye contact. (references) | |
By contact with an already infested person. (references) | ||
Crypto is not spread by contact with blood. (references) | ||
Business | Contact details are listed below. (references) | |
Face-to-face contact is essential. (references) | ||
Business in Argentina is a contact sport. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | The practice explicitly forbids a Trokosi or Fiashidi to engage in sexual activity or contact during her atonement period. (references) |
Bahamas | The law requires that all persons who have contact with a child they believe to be abused sexually report their suspicions to the police. (references) | |
Uganda | Defilement applies to all cases of sexual contact outside of marriage involving girls younger than 18 years of age, regardless of consent or the age of the perpetrator. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Korea | Although a member of the United Nations, the country does not participate in international refugee forums, and it is not in contact with the UNHCR. (references) |
Ghana | Earlier that day, the editor had attempted to contact the Deputy Minister after receiving an allegation that he had threatened a guard at a local security company. (references) | |
Ukraine | In two cases, they asserted that believers were forced to leave jobs in the military or in military production because their evangelical churches had contact with missionaries from abroad. (references) | |
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | See contact list in Appendix E. (references) |
Sri Lanka | The island's contact with the outside world began early. (references) | |
Nepal | Both countries have had extensive contact over the years. (references) | |
Human Rights | Saudi Arabia | The GDI allows the detainees only limited contact with their families or lawyers. (references) |
Kenya | Prisoners and detainees frequently are denied the right to contact relatives or lawyers. (references) | |
Mauritania | Only after the prosecutor submits charges does a suspect have the right to contact an attorney. (references) | |
Minorities | Netherlands | These measures included the appointment of a contact person for discrimination cases in each of the 25 regional police forces; the establishment of a National Bureau for Discrimination Cases (which acts a clearing house and database for the entire police and is a part of the police structure); and the establishment of a national registration system of cases of racism and discrimination to provide a comprehensive picture of the situation. (references) |
Political Economy | Moldova | The U.S. Embassy also serves as the Contact Point Embassy for NATO in Moldova. (references) |
PARAGUAY | Unions are free to maintain contact with regional and international labor organizations. (references) | |
Political Rights | Singapore | The PAP has an extensive grassroots system and a carefully selected, highly disciplined membership, including M.P.'s who maintain close contact with their constituents and who deliver effective government services. (references) |
Trade | India | India point of contact at Tel: 202-482-3772. (references) |
Austria | Contact ON directly to access any of these publications or services. (references) | |
Travel | Sri Lanka | See appendix E for contact information. (references) |
Guyana | To contact the duty officer, telephone 592-226-2614, 226-8298, 227-7869. (references) | |
Kenya | Persons outside the United States should contact the nearest Kenyan embassy or consulate. (references) | |
Women | Sweden | The law provides complainants with protection from contact with their abusers, if so desired. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | Frequently, contact with male supervisors or clients is allowed only by telephone or fax machine. (references) | |
Qatar | In other cases, foreign wives report being forbidden by their husbands or in-laws to visit or to contact foreign embassies. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Luxembourg | Unions maintain unrestricted contact with international bodies. (references) |
Indonesia | Some employers reportedly have warned their employees against contact with union organizers. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | No national trade union center exists to centralize or facilitate contact with international groups. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ALONE, adj. In bad company. In contact, lo! the flint and steel, By spark and flame, the thought reveal That he the metal, she the stone, Had cherished secretly alone. Booley Fito |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Mills | We were never successful in locating Mildred, although we worked for many months in trying to get contact with her and in trying to get John back into courts so that he would have some opportunity to get back together with his kids. |
Lisa French | Well, like, they stated, under oath that nobody in the family ever tried to contact Derek and that's just not true. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | That those tribes can not exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens is certain. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Soon after my election, through an individual who is directly in contact on a personal basis with the leaders of North Vietnam, I made two private offers for a rapid, comprehensive settlement. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Contact" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 62.17% of the time. "Contact" is used about 8,490 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 62.17% | 5,278 | 1,854 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 21.27% | 1,806 | 4,685 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.53% | 1,404 | 5,721 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8,490 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| New Zealand | Contact Energy Ltd | United Kingdom | County Contact Centres P.L.C. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "contact": accumulating contact ♦ advance to contact ♦ base contact ♦ be in contact ♦ be in contact with ♦ bifurcated contact ♦ break contact ♦ business contact ♦ come in contact ♦ come into contact ♦ come into contact with ♦ communication contact ♦ contact allergic dermatitis ♦ contact arc ♦ contact area ♦ contact arm ♦ contact bar ♦ contact barrier seal ♦ contact box ♦ contact breaker ♦ contact brush ♦ contact dermatitis ♦ contact element ♦ Contact Energy ♦ contact engaging or separating force ♦ contact flight ♦ Contact goniometer ♦ contact information ♦ Contact Inhibition ♦ contact lens ♦ Contact Lens Solutions ♦ contact lense ♦ contact lenses ♦ Contact level ♦ contact light ♦ contact lost ♦ contact man ♦ contact mine ♦ contact noise ♦ Contact or Hand ♦ contact plate ♦ contact point ♦ contact print ♦ contact rail ♦ Contact Reflex Analysis ♦ contact roentgentherapy ♦ contact smb. ♦ contact sport ♦ contact surface ♦ contact symbology diagram ♦ Contact Tracing ♦ contact unit ♦ contiguous in contact ♦ deflective occlusal contact ♦ direct contact ♦ disposable contact lenses ♦ electrical contact ♦ extracting contact ♦ eye contact ♦ fly contact ♦ frictional contact drive ♦ get in contact ♦ Goldmann contact lens ♦ initial contact report ♦ injecting contact ♦ keep contact ♦ line of contact ♦ maintained contact switch ♦ make contact ♦ make contact with ♦ make contact with the enemy ♦ momentary contact ♦ movement to contact ♦ occupational contact dermatitis ♦ occupational protein contact dermatitis ♦ ohmic contact ♦ overevaporated contact ♦ overhead contact line ♦ overhead contact system dropper ♦ personal contact ♦ point Of Contact ♦ polygonal overhead contact line ♦ polygonal overhead contact system ♦ radar contact ♦ radio contact ♦ remain in contact ♦ rolling contact gear ♦ rolling contact gear wheel ♦ rolling contact gears ♦ rubbing contact ♦ sexual contact ♦ single Edge Contact ♦ single Edge Contact Cartridge ♦ sliding contact gears ♦ toxic contact dermatitis ♦ twin contact elements ♦ unum quid contact ♦ vertical overhead contact line ♦ vertical overhead contact system ♦ visual contact ♦ wear contact lenses. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "contact": contact-a-family, contact-breaker, contact-called, contact-lenses, contact-making, contact-mediated, contact-poison, contact-rate, contact-rates, contact-scanning, contact-tracer, contact-tracers, contact-tracing, contact-welder, contact-zone. | |
Ending with "contact": eye-contact, full-contact, semi-contact. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
contact lens | 9,691 | cheap contact | 308 |
contact | 4,737 | cat contact | 304 |
colored contact | 770 | buy contact lens | 292 |
discount contact lens | 731 | contact online | 280 |
color contact | 719 | phoenix contact | 276 |
color contact lens | 703 | contact aol | 272 |
colored contact lens | 608 | focus contact lens | 249 |
reseau contact | 601 | contact management software | 247 |
1 800 contact | 550 | contact manager | 247 |
cheap contact lens | 520 | contact dermatitis | 244 |
contact lens online | 518 | crazy contact | 241 |
contact msn | 442 | contact lens freshlook | 202 |
contact center | 441 | america best contact | 198 |
acuvue contact lens | 399 | contact us | 197 |
contact management | 394 | contact lens order | 195 |
contact yahoo | 368 | toric contact lens | 192 |
contact paper | 342 | freshlook contact | 189 |
eye contact | 339 | acuvue contact | 171 |
contact lense | 335 | 1800 contact | 168 |
illusion contact | 332 | america best contact eye glasses | 167 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "contact"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kontak. (various references) | |
Albanian | takim (appointment, assignation, encounter, engagement, gathering, interview, meet, meeting, rendezvous, reunion, tryst), prekje (affection, feeling, fingering, handling, palpation, Tig, touch, touching), person (beggar, body, case, chap, dude, fella, fellow, fish, flesh and blood, guy, hand, individual, party, person, persona, personage, piece, subject), lidhje (affinity, alliance, bandage, bearing, binding, bond, bracer, bracing, catena, communication, confederate, confederation, conjunction, connection, connexion, cord, coupling, dressing, federation, join, joining, joint, knot, league, ligament, ligature, link, link up, linkage, nexus, rapport, regard, relation, relevance, relevancy, respect, seam, signalling, tap, tie, tie up, truss, tying), kontakt (tap). (various references) | |
Arabic | مس (befall, feel, finger, graze, handle, impinge, palpate, tip, touch, twiddle), تلامس (osculate), إلتماس (request), إحتكاك (attrition, drag, friction, rub, rubbing), إتصل (approach, communicate, connect, join, pertain, reach, relate, respect), إتصال (liaison, link, nexus, relation, touch), أداة لإحداث التلا مس, راجع (check, check up on, consult, go over, reassess, returnable, review, revise), شخص محتك بإنسان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свързвам се с (communicate with, get at, join up with, knit up with, tie up with), контактна леща, контакт (plug, point, touch), връзка (alliance, association, bond, bunch, cement, channel, communication, concatenation, connection, connexion, copula, cord, coupler, intercommunication, lace, leverage, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, noose, overlay, point, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, string, tie, touch), влизам във връзка (liaise), отношение (attitude, bearing, concern, count, deal, dealing, feeling, play, posture, proportion, ratio, reference, regard, relation, relationship, respect, sentiment, stance, treatment), познат (acquaintance, familiar, known, well known), допирам се (adjoin), допир (incidence, osculation, touch). (various references) | |
Chinese | 联络, 聯繫 (connection, relation, to integrate, to link, touch), 聯絡 (communication, get in touch with), 交往 (association), 接觸 (to be in touch with, to contact). (various references) | |
Czech | styk (intercourse, joint), stýkat se, spojení (combination, communication, concatenation, conjunction, connection, connexion, joint, junction, juncture, liaison, link, rapport, relation, union), kontakt (communication). (various references) | |
Danish | kontakt (light-switch). (various references) | |
Dutch | contact (connection), contact hebben met, contact hebben. (various references) | |
Esperanto | kontakto, kontakti. (various references) | |
Faeroese | takføri, samband. (various references) | |
Farsi | تماسی , تماس یافتن , تماس (Contiguity, Impact, Tangent), اتصال (Coitus, Conjuncture, Connexion, Continuity, Incorporation, Junction, Juncture, Linkage, Union), برخورد (Address, Affect, Clash, Conflict, Confliction, Contiguity, Encounter, Greet, Incidence, Reception, Smash, Strike, Tilt). (various references) | |
Finnish | kosketus (touch), kosketin (key). (various references) | |
French | contact (connection), contactez, contacter (to contact). (various references) | |
Frisian | kontakt. (various references) | |
German | Kontakt (pin, touch), berührung (mention, touch), verbindung (academy, affiliation, alliance, association, catenation, chaining, combination, communication, compound, conjunction, connection, connexion, coupling, fusion, incorporation, intercommunication, interconnection, interface, join, joint, junction, league, liaison, line, link, link up, linkup, marriage, relation, relationship, society, splice, tie, touch, union, wedding), verbinden (affiliate, ally, associate, bandage, bandaging, bind, bind up, chaine, combine, communicate, compound, concatenate, conjoin, connect, connecting, couple, dress, interconnect, intertwine, join, join on, join up, joint, link, mate, merge, put through, report, splice, splicing, synthesize, tie, tie up, to affiliate, to agglutinate, to ally, to bandage, to chain, to combine, to compound, to concatenate, to conjoin, to contact, to couple, to interconnect, to splice, unite). (various references) | |
Greek | επαφή (communion, touch), έρχομαι σε επαφή. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מגעת, מגע (connection, feel, intercourse, liaison, relation, touch), ליצור מגע (make contact with), ליצור קשר, להתקשר (communicate, get in touch), לבוא במגע, קונטקט, נגיעה (connection, relation, touch, touching). (various references) | |
Hungarian | villanykapcsoló (light switch), kapcsoló (copulative, switch), érintkezésbe lép (get in touch with, to contact, to get in touch with, to make contact), érintkezés (commerce, communication, connection, converse, intercourse, junction, liaison, osculation, relations, tangency). (various references) | |
Icelandic | samband (relation). (various references) | |
Indonesian | singgung (nudge, touch), menyinggung (allude, insult, offend, pertain), hubungan (bearing, communication, connection, intercourse, joint, liaison, relation), bersinggungan (touch). (various references) | |
Italian | contatto (connection, connexion, touch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 触れ合い, 接触 (touch). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふれあい, せっしょく (eating lightly, feed, feeding, touch), せってん (node, point of contact, single bit IO point, tangent point), れんらく (communication, connection, coordination, junction), コンタック , コンタクト (contact lens), てがかり (a handhold, clue, hand hold, key, lead, on hand, scent, trail). (various references) | |
Korean | 접촉 (contacting, touch). (various references) | |
Manx | mwannalys (argument, necking), cur fys er (send for), coventyn (join). (various references) | |
Norwegian | kontakt. (various references) | |
Papiamen | kontakto. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ontactcay.(various references) | |
Polish | kontakt. (various references) | |
Portuguese | contacto (breaker point, contact element, contact plate, eyelet), contato (liaison, touch). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | contato. (various references) | |
Romanian | contact (connection, ignition, intercourse, relations, switch, touch), stabili legãturã cu, relaţie (account, bearing, communion, concern, connection, intercourse, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy), lua (acquire, assume, assume a name, book, bring, catch, clasp, clear away, confiscate, conquer, contract, draw, extract, finger, form, get, have, hire, interpret, jerk off, keep off, lay hands on, lay hold of, load, Mount, nim, pick, pick up, pocket, pouch, receive, snatch, start, take), legãturã (band, bandage, bearing, bind, binder, binding, bond, brace, bracer, bunch, bundle, communion, concern, conjunction, connection, cord, harmony, headkerchief, hoist, junction, knot, lashing, league, liaison, ligament, link, link up, marriage, nexus, pack, pertinence, rapport, reference, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, respect, sheaf, tie, touch, truss, unity), fi în contact cu, atingere (detriment, hit, reach, touch, touching), atinge (achieve, attain, compass, concern, feel, gain, hit, hurt, jog, plug, reach, swat, top, touch, trouble, win). (various references) | |
Russian | соприкосновение (contiguity, juxtaposition, osculation), контакт, касание (osculation, touching), обращаться к/ контакт .контактный, знакомства (connection, connexion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veza (bond, bracing, bunch, clip, communication, connection, copula, fastener, fastening, liaison, ligament, link, nexus, rapport, relation, stay, tie, touch, union), spoj (compound, connection, joggle, join, joint, juncture, rabbet, scarf), kontaktirati (get hold of, make contact), kontakt (touch), dodir (tip, touch). (various references) | |
Spanish | contacto (osculation, point, touch), contactar . (various references) | |
Swedish | kontakt (connection, connexion, socket, switch, touch), kontakta, beröring (contiguity, touch). (various references) | |
Turkish | temasa geçmek (communicate), temas etmek (touch), temas (communication, contiguity, feel, touch), tanıdık (acquaintance, contact man, familiar, friend, friend at court), taşıyıcı (bearer, carrier, conveyer, conveyor, germ carrier, haulier, mover, transporter, vector, vehicle), portör (carrier, germ carrier, vector), irtibat kurmak, ilişki kurmak (familiarize, have intercourse with, have it off, hook up, hump, interrelate, liaise, make, make contact, make out, relate, tie in, tie up), ilişki (affair, affaire, affinity, bond, commerce, connection, connexion, copulation, corelate, correlate, correlation, daughter, dealing, dealings, gallantry, intercourse, interrelation, involvement, it, liaison, noose, rapport, reference, regard, relation, relationship, relevance, relevancy, sexual intercourse, truck), görüşmek (approach, argue, canvass, confer, consult, discuss, get into touch, have a talk with, interview, keep in touch, meet, negotiate, parley, powwow, reason, see, talk), dokunmak (affect, be intolerant of, clap, disagree, feel, handle, kiss, tip, touch), dokunma (don't touch, feeling, handling, hands off, palpation, tact, tactile, tactual, touch, touching), bağlantı (channel, commitment, communication, concern, connecting, connection, connexion, contact man, coordination, coupling, dealings, header, hookup, intercourse, liaison, link, linkage, linkup, noose, relation, tap, tie, tie in, tie up). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | стикатися (clash, collide, encounter, foul, impinge, impinge on, jostle, meet, osculate, telescope, touch), установлювати зв'язок (affiliate, liaise, relate), торкання (graze, tangency), контакт (hookup), зв'язок (association, bonding, bracer, catena, chain, coherence, communication, conjunction, connection, connexion, join, liaison, ligament, ligature, link, nexus, pertinence, pertinency, rapport, relationship, thread, tie), бути в контакті, дотик (dab, feel, osculation, tip, touch, touching). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cái ngắt điện (switch), sự giao thiệp (intercourse, term, touch), sự giao dịch (intercourse), sự gặp gỡ (encounter, interview), sự chạm (foul, incision), sự đi lại (traffic), không gần gũi, giao thiệp với không có quan hệ gì. (various references) | |
Welsh | cyffyrddiad (touch). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adiectum, contactus, contages, contagio contagium, contagione. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | ýûtô. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "contact": contacted, contactee, contactees, contacting, contacts. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "contact": noncontact, precontact, recontact. (additional references) | |
Words containing "contact": noncontacts, recontacted, recontacting, recontacts. (additional references) | |
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"Contact" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantiaci, Catnach, Cointat, comtat, conbac, condact, Confait, conract, conta, contacs, contakt, contant, contat, Contati, contect, contet, Contucci, Costaki, Cotac, cotact, Icontec, Kontacta, kontic, sanitact, Scotnat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "contact" (pronounced kÄ"nta'kt) |
| 3 | -a' k t | artifact, backtracked, contract, counteract, hijacked, noncontract, overact, piggybacked, ransacked, sidetracked, subcontract. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-n-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: octant. | |
-2 letters: canto, coact, cotan, cotta, octan, tanto. | |
-3 letters: cant, coat, coca, nota, taco, tact. | |
-4 letters: act, ant, att, can, cat, con, cot, not, oat, oca, tan, tao, tat, ton, tot. | |
-5 letters: an, at, na, no, on, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-n-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: contacts, contract. | |
+2 letters: catatonic, contacted, contactee, contracts, recontact. | |
+3 letters: accountant, catatonics, contactees, contacting, contracted, contractor, contradict, counteract, cunctation, noncontact, precontact, recontacts, technocrat. | |
+4 letters: acceptation, accountants, antitobacco, coarctation, concatenate, concentrate, concomitant, contractile, contracting, contraction, contractive, contractors, contractual, contracture, contradicts, copycatting, counteracts, cunctations, noncontacts, noncontract, occultation, outcatching, phonotactic, recontacted, subcontract, technocrats, tobacconist. | |
+5 letters: accentuation, acceptations, accouterment, accoutrement, actinometric, actinomycete, capacitation, citification, coarctations, concatenated, concatenates, concentrated, concentrates, concentrator, concomitants, contractible, contractions, contractures, contradicted, contradictor, contraoctave, cosurfactant, counteracted, nonarchitect, occultations, phonotactics, postaccident, recontacting, sansculottic, subcontracts, technocratic, tectonically, tobacconists, trochanteric, uncontracted. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Abbreviations 22. Acronyms 23. Derivations 24. Rhymes | 25. Anagrams 26. Bibliography |
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