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contact meaning

EN[ˈkɑntækt] [ˈkɒntækt] [kənˈtækt] [-ækt]
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WContact
  • Contact or The Contact may refer to:
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    Definition of contact in English Dictionary

  • NounPLcontactsPREcon-
    1. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
      1. 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.
    2. The establishment of communication (with).
      1. I haven't been in contact with her for years. ‎
    3. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
      1. Touch the contact to ground and read the number again. ‎
    4. Someone with whom one is in communication.
      1. The salesperson had a whole binder full of contacts for potential clients. ‎
    5. (informal) A contact lens.
      1. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
        1. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
          1. I bought myself a new contact ball last week ‎
        2. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
        3. VerbSGcontactsPRcontactingPT, PPcontacted
          1. (transitive) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
            1. The side of the car contacted the pedestrian.
          2. (transitive) To establish communication with something or someone.
            1. I am trying to contact my sister.
        4. More Examples
          1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
            • Since other dense anatomical structures are around and in contact the EC, the EC was defined to exclude the dorsal endopiriform nucleus and the piriform cortex.
            • We'd invite various contacts up to renew acquaintances and remind them of my dressmaking talents.
            • We constructed recombinase libraries by randomly mutagenizing five residues predicted to contact DNA at positions 3–2: Leu 122, Ser 125, Arg 129, Tyr 138 and Gly 139 (Fig 6A ).
          2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
            • Spirant consonants are those in which the mouth passage is simply narrowed without any actual contact.
            • The software Neuroexplorer was used for morphometrical and quantitative analyses of reconstructed cells, including total dendritic length and distances between somata and putative synaptic contacts.
            • The primary objective is to attrit the units sufficiently so that they cannot close with the units in contact.
        • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
          1. Nouns
            • Countable nouns
            • Verbs
              • Transitive verbs
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            1. fr contact
            2. fr contacte
            3. fr contacta
            4. en contacts
            5. fr contacté
            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of contact for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "contact" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.
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