Definition of "contact"

contact

/ˈkɑntækt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural contacts
1. The act of touching physically; being in close association.
  Quotations
  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.
  1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
2. The establishment of communication (with).
  Quotations
  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.
  1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
3. The situation of being within sight of something; visual contact.
  Quotations
  If the pilot […] cannot establish visual contact with the ground, he must immediately execute a missed-approach procedure […]
  1983, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Activities and Transportation Subcommittee, Hazardous Obstructions at San Francisco Airport, page 126
4. A nodule designed to connect a device with something else.
5. Someone who can be contacted, or with whom one is in communication.
6. (informal) A contact lens.
7. (electricity) A device designed for repetitive connections.
8. (informal, by ellipsis) Contact juggling.
9. (mining) The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.
verb
third-person singular simple present contacts, present participle contacting, simple past and past participle contacted
1. (transitive, occasionally proscribed) To touch; to come into physical contact with.
2. (transitive, occasionally proscribed) To establish communication with (something or someone).

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